Hi! I do think the renovatrice creme would be great, the only thing is trying to get the right color, white is really white, but they have an off white and eggshell and you can mix the Creme for a custom color. It's expensive, $14 a tube but your tube will last! A little goes a long way. It's like a rubbery resin based putty/dye. It dosent really flake off like an acrylic paint would, and it let's the leather breath. Lots of colors to not just white. Now will the bag be in store perfect...no...but it will look tons better.
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Hi! I do think the renovatrice creme would be great, the only thing is trying to get the right color, white is really white, but they have an off white and eggshell and you can mix the Creme for a custom color. It's expensive, $14 a tube but your tube will last! A little goes a long way. It's like a rubbery resin based putty/dye. It dosent really flake off like an acrylic paint would, and it let's the leather breath. Lots of colors to not just white. Now will the bag be in store perfect...no...but it will look tons better.
I've used it but I used the white and I did not care for it, it was dry and cracked on the bag, I also mixed with conditioner for an overall maintanace and just wasn't impressed, but white is hard, maybe dark colors would cover better.
So I finished up the clean up for my Chelsea Abbey satchel in Tobacco. I have the black shoulder bag version so I've kind of been waiting on finding the brown. That being said, I hardly use the black as it is super heavy. The brown is no exception.
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Thanks. What would you recommend for scuffs, I've cleaned and conditioned the bag but there's still some lite fading.
Honestly I'd use saphir products instead, there kind of a creme conditioner with a dye, it works beautifully for fading and conditions while lightly concealing scratches and evening out color.
After:
Inside: I pulled the liner out and scrubbed with Dawn and oxi stain remover. Carefully rinsed. All of the stains came out.
Outside: cleaned with 2 layers of leather CPR and 1 blackrocks and buffed with horse hair.
I may clean the hardware later, but did not feel like it this week....
I'm excited to find a new bag, but now my collection is OVER FULL by about 3 bags. Which gives me major storage issues. I'm blessed to have these problems.
Inside: I pulled the liner out and scrubbed with Dawn and oxi stain remover. Carefully rinsed. All of the stains came out.
Outside: cleaned with 2 layers of leather CPR and 1 blackrocks and buffed with horse hair.
I may clean the hardware later, but did not feel like it this week....
I'm excited to find a new bag, but now my collection is OVER FULL by about 3 bags. Which gives me major storage issues. I'm blessed to have these problems.
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I am playing catch up here, but I did see you were answered. I started with Lexol conditioner ( which I used like a general conditioner, not to rehab) before I found tPF and heard about learned about Leather CPR. I had found this on YouTube several months before I came here. The woman who made this video used to post here. She rehabbed bags for the Coach project a few years ago. So I started using Leather Therapy ConditionerRestorer. When I ran out of that, I bought CPR to check it out. LT R/C is not quite as thick as CPR but works as well, imo
Her site is not active. While I don’t follow this to the letter, it gave me something to think about before I landed here a few years ago : )
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Google The Hangar Project. While there is a shipping fee, I found the descriptions and reviews of the Saphir products easier to sift through than on Amazon.
I wonder why she isn't keeping up her site. I noticed that a few months ago.
I noticed she is saying not to dunk NYC bags because they may crack. Has this happened to anyone here? I have a few and I dunked them with no issues, wondering if I got lucky.
Iirc, in her blog, she mentioned having the outer layer flake off during dunking of an old bag. It was a bag from the 60s or 70s in poor shape. Have also dunked several NYC bags from the 80s, in good condition, with no problems as well.