Must have something more important going on (lol, it does happen). She hasn’t updated up her blog in years. I’m guessing she still has to pay to keep it up on the internet.
Coach Rehab and Rescue Club
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Thank you so much Lake Effect! I recently found leather CPR and using it. Are you able to let me know please when I should use Blackrocks after the CPR? What was the Coach project? Thanks!
Whatever you use for your deep conditioning, use Blackrock as your final product.
For their 75th anniversary, Coach had a project going where someone who used to post here scooped up a bunch of vintage coach bags, restored them in her barn workshop and then passed them back onto Coach. Coach then embellished certain bags. Coach had this video on their website up until not too long ago:
https://thewindow.barneys.com/coach-vintage-puts-a-new-spin-on-old-favorites/
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OMG! thanks Lake Effect. I think I saw a small part of that video somewhere awhile back but was not sure what it was about. Again, much appreciated! thanks for sharing this!! and the Blackrock info!
I was not real surprised, but check out the prices from Barney’s! I will throw a crowbar into my tightwad wallet if those fringed Convertable Clutch / Dinky bags ever show up on eBay or Etsy!
Hello! just wondering about the hardware. How difficult is it to remove and put back on again a turn lock? Was this subject discussed already? Looking to learn how to do this so I can really clean the hardware. Thank you!
I have only removed hardware once. I had difficulty getting the prongs flat on the male part of the turnlock and decided I don’t have the patience currently to pursue removing hardware to clean it. I use polishing cloths. Try doing a search here using the words remove and removing hardware. Better women here than me have tackled it.
And it is safe to say most everything has been discussed lol lol. And there is no harm in asking. But I have found tons of info using the search feature. In my book, it is The. Bomb.
I've dunked many NYC bags without an issue. I don't generally dunk pre-creed bags, especially if they are lined. I think I may have dunked my unlined pre-creed small pouch. Someone dunked a bag that was in terrible shape and it fell apart. You'd be able to tell if the leather was that far gone.
I only did it once and couldn't get the prongs flat. I won't do it again unless the hardware is broken.
If the bag us super old, I usually assess if it can take a dunk. I've skipped thus step on some older lighter colored precreed bags. The lighter colors don't take heavy washing/ conditioning.
I almost always removed the hardware because it gets green gunk around it, and it allows me to really polish it up well using ultra fine steel wool and polish. So, I use a tiny tiny flathead screwdriver to pull prongs up and jewelry pliers, to push them back. It is sometimes a bit hard to get the prongs back down really flat but not impossible. I think it's worth it.
Someone revive this beauty! NML
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I am spending today going through my black bags discovering which are covered in shoe polish. Some of them I've had for years and they are shiny yet scratched, and didn't rehab well.. like they came out of the bath with scratches and scuffs still there. As I wrote recently, I discovered after I had sold one that it was shoe polish causing this phenomena. So so far I have stripped back a briefcase I have had for ages and I want to now use as a laptop bag, a Metropolis (which I always loved and have used plenty but was always frustrated by the scuffs on the front), and they are going in the bath along with that nice black double kisslock I bought yesterday.
Happy rehabbing Sunday!
Happy rehabbing Sunday!
I paid a little more than that recently for mine, which may actually be putty, no strap or tag, but the piping was just beginning to show wear and not as far gone as this bag. I just put Blackrock on it, I will post soon.