I don’t have an answer but you can rest assured, if the result is not what you had hoped, a little elbow grease and water and you can remove it.
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Be careful with deer! Many conditioners will not penetrate, and will either harden it or make it "gummy". I had some luck using Skidmores, but it did coat the hide with wax. Something like Obenauf's oil could do the trick. ***use it very sparingly***
Looks like oil? If so, it’s there forever. Naked leathers will keep that even if dyed.
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Crap! Oh well, experiment time….
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Maybe I’ll try brown Urad….
No! Not on deerskin!
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Got a Taylor's police jacket that has the collar points stitched to the body of the jacket. Think I can use a stitch ripper or something to undo this with minimal damage?
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Yeah, don't use Urad on soft, porous leather like deerskin, it'll totally change it. Use Tenderly if you want to stick to the same family of products.
I think you could easily just cut that knot, but a seam ripper will work too.
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Perhaps Tenderly…it’s sort of weird that there’s not a product….
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Badge removal from the sleeve of this jacket left a lot of perforations in the leather, which I'm concerned may begin to tear. What's the best course of action here? Leave it, patch over it with some leather, or patch under it to reinforce it from the back?
I think the way to repair such damage is to GLUE a patch of leather under it. I would send it to Dena. That perf looks fearsome.
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The design is ripe for an additional area of quilted leather right over it on both sides?
Good idea. Again, Dena would do a great job of it I think.
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I'm not much of a quilted leather guy, and I only spent $160 on the jacket so I'm hoping for the most cost effective repair possible. This probably precludes sending it away to a speciality leather shop. Here's a full pic of the jacket:
Think I could get a local tailor to glue a piece of leather underneath the area in question?
I will say, the leather on this old Taylor's police jacket is quite nice. Thick and supple.
Think I could get a local tailor to glue a piece of leather underneath the area in question?
I will say, the leather on this old Taylor's police jacket is quite nice. Thick and supple.
Nice jacket. Because the reinforcing leather patch would be on the inside, you can try to save some coin and do the reinforcing yourself. The best glue to connect two leather surfaces on their roughout side is rubber cement. The bond will be damn near unbreakable. If you decide that someone else should do the reinforcing, I would talk to a cobbler, not a tailor. A cobbler will dig the concept of a reinforcing patch in a second, and will know what glue to use.
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I have barge cement on hand and have used it for leather repair in the past, but maybe if I take it to a cobbler they'll have rubber cement to use.
I used Weldwood. Tbh, they are all similar. Some swear by Barge. This repair is non-critical (ie in non-stress area), so it won't matter. I would say the only important thing is to use a solvent-based cement, not the water-based crap. The solvent is what you smell when you walk into a cobbler's shop...
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