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katev said:
I need some rehab advice. I am working on a Legacy Straw Tote that I got at the Savers for $22.50. The style number is 113 and the bag was made in China in 2005.

The bag was very misshapen and it was dirty and dingy, the AT pics are at the link below and it looks a lot cleaner in the pics than it actually was IRL.

http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-shopping/authenticate-this-coach-763164-82.html#post22639232

It washed up beautifully and I was able to restore the shape, but I am having problems repairing damage to the gold metallic leather. There were spots of some kind of nasty, dried orange crud on the bag. Including a bad spot on the front flap pocket and another one on the strap.

I think someone used the bag at a picnic and splashed ketsup on it and didn't clean it off. I was able to get it off but now I am trying to deal with the damage left behind.

Here are some pics. The big spot on the front flap produced an orange stain on the thin strip of ivory leather trim next to the metallic leather and I was able to touch that up with acrylic paints, but I have not been successful camouflaging the damage to the adjacent metallic leather.

I have tried several different shades of metallic paints, and I have tried mixing them with each other and with leather cpr. The problem is that if the shade of gold is dark enough to cover the spot then it is too dark to match the rest of the bag. And I do not want to attempt repainting all the gold leather on the bag!

Anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone ever tried to apply gold-leaf to anything? What is that gold stuff that they use to apply monograms to leather? How about gold ink? I am usually against using ink or shoepolish but I am getting desperate!

Should I try taking it to a cobbler? I had no luck with the cobbler, the boutique, or Coach JAX when I tried to get the metallic leather on my copper zoe repaired so I think that I will probably have to find my own solution. The bag is really stunning and I am very open to all ideas! Help! And thanks!
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I wonder if you could find a spray metallic paint (mask off the rest of the purse somehow). I've seen paints that you can spray on to spruce up an old lamp or to make fun finishes on things....It would be less precise, but may work? Otherwise, you've already tried what I would try...with the exception being I might be tempted to just repaint the entire leather to match my new paint color if all else fails!!
 
#5,839
Jessi319 said:
katev said:
Just take a look at all the crap that was left inside this bag!!!!! :throwup:

Don't you think that the original owner could at least have held the bag upside down over the wastebasket before chucking it into the "donation pile"?!

yike!!! I keep hoping I"ll find somebodys abandoned $100 Bill
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I found a dime in a recent one. That's the best I've done.
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#5,840
ledobe said:
HAHA! We've recruited another vicitim!

I came here today to post pix of my Cashin for Meyers foldover rehab, but I took some new pix on my phone, uploaded them to Photobucket, and hopped on my laptop to post here, and photobucket is down.

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I strongly dislike photobucket. It seems to remove photos from old valuable NEEDED reference posts!! I"ve asked the post owner if THEY had removed the photos and/or could they put them back PLEASE... and they said that Photobucket had dumped the images for some reason...frustrating!
 
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Jessi319 said:
I strongly dislike photobucket. It seems to remove photos from old valuable NEEDED reference posts!! I"ve asked the post owner if THEY had removed the photos and/or could they put them back PLEASE... and they said that Photobucket had dumped the images for some reason...frustrating!
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Yeah, if I didn't have so much already on there, I'd ditch it. It's got way too many ads and such now. I've been on the internet so long and they were one of the first free sites.

A lot of times links are broken when people move their stuff and reorganize albums and they don't realize it. I have some really old stuff that's still out there.
 
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Jessi319 said:
I wonder if you could find a spray metallic paint (mask off the rest of the purse somehow). I've seen paints that you can spray on to spruce up an old lamp or to make fun finishes on things....It would be less precise, but may work? Otherwise, you've already tried what I would try...with the exception being I might be tempted to just repaint the entire leather to match my new paint color if all else fails!!
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You know I was thinking of something like rust-o-leum but it would be difficult to use on a small spot.
 
#5,845
ledobe said:
aww come on katev-a little bath, some conditioner...finish with some Black Rocks? :graucho:
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Nope, I'm not going there! I walked away from a large tan duffle bag at the charity shop for $3 recently. It was old and I felt confident that it was real, but it had bad stains on it and I decided that I didn't need the grief even at that price.
 
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Jessi319 said:
Maybe, if you found a match of course, you could spray some into the bottom of a container of some sort, then while it's wet sponge the paint onto the spot?
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I was thinking about that when we were discussing hardware that has lost its brass plating the other day, because rust-o-leum is designed to stick to metal.
 
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katev said:
I need some rehab advice. I am working on a Legacy Straw Tote that I got at the Savers for $22.50. The style number is 113 and the bag was made in China in 2005.

The bag was very misshapen and it was dirty and dingy, the AT pics are at the link below and it looks a lot cleaner in the pics than it actually was IRL.

http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-shopping/authenticate-this-coach-763164-82.html#post22639232

It washed up beautifully and I was able to restore the shape, but I am having problems repairing damage to the gold metallic leather. There were spots of some kind of nasty, dried orange crud on the bag. Including a bad spot on the front flap pocket and another one on the strap.

I think someone used the bag at a picnic and splashed ketsup on it and didn't clean it off. I was able to get it off but now I am trying to deal with the damage left behind.

Here are some pics. The big spot on the front flap produced an orange stain on the thin strip of ivory leather trim next to the metallic leather and I was able to touch that up with acrylic paints, but I have not been successful camouflaging the damage to the adjacent metallic leather.

I have tried several different shades of metallic paints, and I have tried mixing them with each other and with leather cpr. The problem is that if the shade of gold is dark enough to cover the spot then it is too dark to match the rest of the bag. And I do not want to attempt repainting all the gold leather on the bag!

Anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone ever tried to apply gold-leaf to anything? What is that gold stuff that they use to apply monograms to leather? How about gold ink? I am usually against using ink or shoepolish but I am getting desperate!

Should I try taking it to a cobbler? I had no luck with the cobbler, the boutique, or Coach JAX when I tried to get the metallic leather on my copper zoe repaired so I think that I will probably have to find my own solution. The bag is really stunning and I am very open to all ideas! Help! And thanks!
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chowlover2 said:
How about Tarrago polishing cream in gold?
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chowlover2 said:
This is the stuff I'm talking about, here's the link
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Thanks, that looks interesting!
 
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