Coach Rehab and Rescue Club
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While I wouldn’t want a bag caked with gum, yuck, I don’t consider much that goes in my bag (germy phone, money filled wallet) clean so after cleansing a used bag I figure Inam good
I'm pretty sure that bag was deemed inauthentic here recently on the AT thread.
ETA: Authenticate This COACH - **see first post for format**
There is a bundle of 4 Clip Hobo bags listed on Mercari for $66 at the link below (use Google Chrome if you can't see the listing or the pictures)
https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m19094815139/
All 4 bags have their hangtags in the pictures which is great, because they are unusual hangtags.
I think they are part of the Girlie line of bags from 2003. I have the red bag that is included in the bundle and it is made of very soft lamb nappa; you can see my bag at the link below. It has a replacement hangtag with black enamel:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/thanks-to-a-kind-coachie-my-bag-is-now-perfect.737123/
They look like my bag but I am not an authenticator!
https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m19094815139/
All 4 bags have their hangtags in the pictures which is great, because they are unusual hangtags.
I think they are part of the Girlie line of bags from 2003. I have the red bag that is included in the bundle and it is made of very soft lamb nappa; you can see my bag at the link below. It has a replacement hangtag with black enamel:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/thanks-to-a-kind-coachie-my-bag-is-now-perfect.737123/
They look like my bag but I am not an authenticator!
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Oh my goodness that looks so pretty. Mine is mahogany too. Thank you so much for sharing your pics and progress!
I can’t remember who it was (sorry) but so someone here was looking for one of these. Best offer available too [emoji4]
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/253289004051
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/253289004051
I will post as I go on this one. I am really loving her color so far. I forgot to mention that when I patted her dry, I hand pressed the puffy flap between two paper towels to flatten it and remove excess water. She is really heavy and floppy wet, heavier than my Willis soaked with hardware on. Be careful if you hang yours up to dry, I thought she was going to pull the hook out.
About the only thing I worried about on her that didn’t go away with the wash is one tiny gouge on the top under the handle. Leather seems to be present, so I hope to glue it down once she dries.
My Crosby bag arrived today after spending 11 days in transit (thanks USPS!), and I can't wait to get started on her. She looks a bit saggy and faded and smells kinda musty right now, but I don't think there's any issues that a good bath and lots of conditioning won't take care of. Someone just came to the door to let us know that there's a water leak down the street and they're turning off the water until possibly midnight, so her bath will have to wait until at least tomorrow.
My order of Obenauf's Leather Oil and Heavy Duty LP also arrived today, along with a horsehair brush, after a much shorter trip thanks to Amazon Prime lol. I'm definitely among the group of people that thinks Obenauf's smells amazing. I'm really into perfumes and perfume oils, and some of my favorites contain honey and/or beeswax as their main notes, so its scent is right up my alley. I have a mahogany Court bag that I've been working on that's had a bath, 2 coats of Apple conditioner, and 2 coats of Blackrock so far. I just applied a coat of Obenauf's LP and really like how it's made the leather look and feel so far. I'm looking forward to trying out the Leather Oil also, and plan to use it in place of the Apple conditioner when I start working on the Crosby.
I tried using the horsehair brush to buff the Court before applying the OLP and managed to make a small scratch on the piping in the process, I think from the edge of the wooden handle. So that experiment wasn't quite as successful lol--obviously I need to be more careful with it in the future.
My order of Obenauf's Leather Oil and Heavy Duty LP also arrived today, along with a horsehair brush, after a much shorter trip thanks to Amazon Prime lol. I'm definitely among the group of people that thinks Obenauf's smells amazing. I'm really into perfumes and perfume oils, and some of my favorites contain honey and/or beeswax as their main notes, so its scent is right up my alley. I have a mahogany Court bag that I've been working on that's had a bath, 2 coats of Apple conditioner, and 2 coats of Blackrock so far. I just applied a coat of Obenauf's LP and really like how it's made the leather look and feel so far. I'm looking forward to trying out the Leather Oil also, and plan to use it in place of the Apple conditioner when I start working on the Crosby.
I tried using the horsehair brush to buff the Court before applying the OLP and managed to make a small scratch on the piping in the process, I think from the edge of the wooden handle. So that experiment wasn't quite as successful lol--obviously I need to be more careful with it in the future.
I haven't mastered buffing with a brush, but I like to use my horse hair brush in the bath, especially when the bag is particularly gross.
Here are the steps for the smoky, surprise inky, Regina rehab with a disclaimer that I am new to this. It is safer to go slower and follow someone with more experience! I got great advice here but I took some drastic steps as I discovered surprises. I would have gone slower if I hadn't had ink seeping out of the bag. Here it goes:
As soon as I got the bag I sealed it in a bag while contacting the seller to see if I could try airing it out. I got some great advice here and aired the bag outside 24/7 until it rained. When inside, it was sealed up with zeolite or charcoal pouches. Eventually I kept the zeolite in the bag when it was outside too. I read about someone successfully spritzing vinegar on a leather jacket to remove smoke. The inside of the bag seemed hopeless; so after a week or so I spritzed the bag with vinegar water and let it air dry. The vinegar helped so much that I did this 3x, but on the 3rd time, the tiny dark spot on the bottom inside turned out to be ink and spread to the exterior of the bag. I panicked and blotted the ink with alcohol and then immediately gave it a bath. After rinsing, I poured vinegar into the bag and made sure it got all over the unfinished leather and into the pockets. It really held the liquid in like a canteen while I swirled it around! At this point, I could no longer smell smoke over the vinegar, but the ink had spread. I noticed more ink wicked out of the bottom of the bag onto a paper towel I stood it on. So it gave me an idea to try to pull the rest of the ink out. I have this amazing water-based surfactant product called Folex. Folex says not to use it on leather unless it can be soaked with water. At this point I was pondering E6000-ing patches onto the bag. So I went for it with the Folex, and it worked! I saturated the ink in Folex and kept blotting the bag with paper towels until ink stopped coming out. Thankfully, this ink must have been water based. It came out so easily from the front of the bag. The ink seemed to be coming from under the leather in the bottom of the bag and seemed never-ending there, but thankfully it's barely noticeable there. It looks like slightly darker leather. I washed the bag quickly and blotted more ink out. So I don't know if the Folex was necessary or water would have been enough to dissolve the ink. I did a final rinse without vinegar (since it was already full of it!) and placed the bag outside to dry. I stood it up on paper towels to wick out more ink from the bottom, and it did pull a little more out. I decided that was the last washing because I don't want the ink to move around anymore now that the front of the bag is clean. I gave it 3 coats of Leather CPR and in this pic the 2nd coat of Blackrock's Leather N Rich had just been applied. I have charcoal pouches in all the pockets just in case there is any residual smoke, but no one can smell anything. I still need to put the hangtag back on, but I worked on the hardware some more after taking these pictures last night. I read that vinegar was good for the brass, but it seemed to cause a film on it. I also read that vinegar and heat lead to verdigris. Is any of that right? I tried ketchup on the turnlock but didn't like having it so close to the leather so I switched to baking soda toothpaste. It helped a lot, but I want to work on the hardware more. I am not ready to take it off after seeing pictures of what it can look like when done by someone (me) who doesn't yet know what she's doing!Thanks again everyone! I can't wait to use my cute, brown bag!
Thank you so much for this post! Looks like I'll be ordering some Folex! I just received a BT Manor bag full of ink and it's already stained through the leather to the outside. I knew this bag would be a rehab challenge but I was really hoping for no ink. And it might have mouse turds in the back slip pocket but I'm not getting any closer to it to investigate until it sits in a vinegar soak. Yuck.
Thank you so much for this post! Looks like I'll be ordering some Folex! I just received a BT Manor bag full of ink and it's already stained through the leather to the outside. I knew this bag would be a rehab challenge but I was really hoping for no ink. And it might have mouse turds in the back slip pocket but I'm not getting any closer to it to investigate until it sits in a vinegar soak. Yuck.
That’s pretty nasty [emoji40]
Thank you so much for this post! Looks like I'll be ordering some Folex! I just received a BT Manor bag full of ink and it's already stained through the leather to the outside. I knew this bag would be a rehab challenge but I was really hoping for no ink. And it might have mouse turds in the back slip pocket but I'm not getting any closer to it to investigate until it sits in a vinegar soak. Yuck.
That is really gross and the sort of thing that would put me off rehab bags.
It is disgusting. I have no idea what it is but it's several small brown things squished into the bottom of the pocket. Could be chocolate but they are perfectly mouse poo sized. I'm going to use a germicide, Basic-G, to disinfect it. I hope it doesn't ruin the bag but I bought this bag to experiment on anyway.