Coach Rehab and Rescue Club
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I was thinking of you when I loaded it all up. I'd love to see what you do with your leighs. I hope your town is now OK after the tornado?
awww..thanks for asking! And I will try some conditioner on my Rose Leigh pretty soon. The black Leigh seems indestructible, unlike my house! haha...but things are getting back to normal slowly, but going GREAT. The roofers are supposed to be starting on our new roof tomorrow. And after that we can get the siding replaced and the living room -where there's the most damage - will be getting new walls and ceilings and fireplace! Sweet of you to remember me
Hey great job that bag looks great after all of your TLC!!!! and WOW thats quite a process you perfomed on it!! Bless your patience ; )
Thanks! Before you dye the bag, I would try conditioning it with Black Rock Leather N Rich. After conditioning the bag in the pic below (with multiple products) the color was still uneven and inconsistent and dull in spots, but Black Rocks took care of that problem. I bought Black Rocks at a local tack shop but it is also available on line. Below is a link to info that I previously reported about Black Rock.
Can you post a pic of the damaged area on the strap, so we can see what you mean? You might try taking it to a cobbler and asking for professional advice.
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach/co...t19792894.html?highlight=docride#post19792894
Thank you for your response! I got all distracted with our travel season (we have three kids during the summer months, and I travel with my husband for his work during the rest of the year, so really a lot of time away from home). I am home now because I needed dental work and am getting braces this coming week... can't go anywhere until everything is done, so back to my fun Coach hobby until the week after next!
Anyway, that bag is still in the same condition, I just pulled all my bags out and moisturized them tonight. I carried my black rehabbed Coach City bag into my favorite Coach store this week, not even considering where I was taking it, and all the sales ladies in the store went crazy over it. I think the Black Rocks sounds like a good choice, it needs darkening and moisturizing, and the leather moisturizer doesn't do the necessary job!
As far as the rat mark on the handle, I covered it over with a little acrylic paint, and it doesn't bother me anymore, so I think it is fine. I need to figure out how to post some pics in here as I am on my 5tyh or 6th rehab project, and just ordered two more tonight, one from Etsy and one from E-Bay. My rule is I won't pay more than $20 shipped for a bag, so I take whatever I can find at that price and just try to do the best job possible. So far I have a nice black Patricia Legacy, the City, I did a Court bag and re-sold it on E-Bay because I wanted the other strap and figured I would just find another one to rehab, the one mentioned here, and three little pochettes. Tonight I ordered two bags, both cream colored or possibly tan, both ancient and in pretty ugly shape from the pictures. I love the challenge, so hopefully I can make them pretty again!
Here are links to what I ordered:
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/77045799
http://www.ebay.com/itm/23076944930...NX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_500wt_1315
If anybody has any idea what they are, I would love to know!
The Bonnie Cashin bag got me doing a google search, and I found this pic, Bonnie Cashin for Coach 1968... I would love to find some of these bags to rehab!!
http://denisebrain.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-birthday-bonnie-cashin.html
Sorry, you have to scroll down a little, it is the pic with the orange coach and all the bags in it...
http://denisebrain.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-birthday-bonnie-cashin.html
Sorry, you have to scroll down a little, it is the pic with the orange coach and all the bags in it...
Wonderful job! It looks great now and I love the color--you're right it looks gorgeous against the brass hardware. Very nice!
For all my new-found Rehabber Friends:
As a way to say "Thank You" for the valuable information I've learned from all of you, it's time to give back!
I've written an illustrated pdf tutorial about a process called Vinegaroon.
Click on the link below for the basic process and my first project:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4955120/VINEGAROON 101.pdf
Click the link below for updates to the original info and my second project:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4955120/VINEGAROON 102.pdf
Although I'm still on the low end of the learning curve with this process, I wanted to share the technique. It requires a fair amount of time and patience - what rehab doesn't? - but the results can make an old mess of a bag usable again!
Every day I'm amazed at - and inspired by - the results of everyone's rehabbing efforts.
Congrats to all for your successes!
As a way to say "Thank You" for the valuable information I've learned from all of you, it's time to give back!
I've written an illustrated pdf tutorial about a process called Vinegaroon.
Click on the link below for the basic process and my first project:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4955120/VINEGAROON 101.pdf
Click the link below for updates to the original info and my second project:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4955120/VINEGAROON 102.pdf
Although I'm still on the low end of the learning curve with this process, I wanted to share the technique. It requires a fair amount of time and patience - what rehab doesn't? - but the results can make an old mess of a bag usable again!
Every day I'm amazed at - and inspired by - the results of everyone's rehabbing efforts.
Congrats to all for your successes!
I own a few of these Cashin bags, but the Mexican striped lining in her bags are what keeps me from doing a thorough dunking/rehabbing. These are so rare, and so nearly irreplaceable- and I can't bear the thought of ruining their value or wrecking one by getting the older, more delicate lined bags really wet! It's a real dilemma. I have one of the Mex stripe lined skinny totes that is so far gone (mildew, etc) that I am going to have no choice but to just go for it, so when I do, I'll post my results
Thank you for putting this together, it was a lot of work, and congratulations on your rehabs, they look much better. You used light-colored bags but I wonder how it would work on a distressed dark-colored bag?
You should post them in the Authentication thread (it's on the Coach shopping page) so that the experts can help you with them. You are very brave, light-colored rehabs are tough!
I have successfully rehabbed one unlined Bonnie Cashin For Meyers pebbled leather bag and I was very excited to recently find a 1960s tan Small Shopper that DemRam has confirmed as an early Cashin design for Coach. I got it for only $2 at the Salvation Army store! But the bag is dirty, smells very musty, and the leather/lining are slipping out of the metal frame of the kisslock compartment.
I took it to the cobbler and he is trying to get the leather and lining securely back inside of the frame, but he warned me that the process may bend or dent the metal! He said that this is "more likely to happen with thin, soft metal but this bag has strong metal, so it should be okay but no guarantees!"
I will pick it up tomorrow and I am very nervous. I really hope that the frame isn't bent, but what choice did I have?!
I am really scared at the thought of giving it a bath because I don't want to ruin the bag or the pretty striped lining; but I think that I will have to dunk it because it is very dirty and the musty smell is quite strong.
Here are a few pics of my $2 find, any suggestions for ways to approach this special little rehab?
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can't wait to see this -post cobbler pick up!! She look pretty great in the photos, as is! Every single one of my inner striped old Cashins have a "dim" interior stripe color. I can't tell if its just grime related, or what! Compared to the new Legacy lining we have these days, it's a lot more muted. I love this color. I think mine is more camel than tan after seeing these photos.
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