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Ava_13579 said:
Thank you, @Catbird9!!

Did you find that the Blackrock made the leather look better? So is there an advantage to using it for Periwinkle?

Also: I'm very curious about your Winnie! It looks great.

I've haven't seen the Winnie in person, and I don't have a good sense of the size.

A couple of months ago, I bought a Canteen (#9982). I was surprised when I got the bag, because it's barely big enough to hold my large-ish phone. (I use a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.) I have to remove the case for the phone to fit. I find it's a very small capacity bag. So I've become a little bit cautious about the smaller bags.

On the other hand, I got a Pocket Purse recently, and the capacity seems to be more comfortable.

I'm wondering, how do you like your Winnie? May I ask how much it fits?

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I think the Blackrock gave a nice finish and soft glow to the leather, as it usually does. The color seemed richer.

I didn't keep the Winnie. It was too small for my needs. It's an adorable, special occasion bag that will hold essential items. It measures about 7" x 7" x 3".
 
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Lothruin said:
Here is the Murphy all done! I had to deal with a sneaky ink stain, which I couldn't get to go away, but I did get it all blotted out, at least. I also included a pic of the dowel end repair. I didn't have a piece quite thin enough to get it flush, and the color isn't an exact match, but overall, I don't think anyone will notice the imperfections, and my mother is excited. I took it over for our Easter celebration, so she could test drive it to make sure it wouldn't be too heavy.
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It looks great! You did a nice job on the dowel repair.
 
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Lothruin said:
My friends call me the Thriftmaster 5000. I almost exclusively wear 2nd hand clothing and accessories, in part for this very reason. Everything from Levis to vintage dresses, including one gorgeous LBD in wool crepe from one of Jackie Kennedy's fashion-houses of choice. (A St. Louis fashion house little remembered today, but VERY high quality.) Even my housewares and furniture are almost all 2nd hand, including the 1960s dinette set you will have seen in many of my photos, and the University of Nebraska card catalogue that might have been in one or two. I've rehabbed everything from leather bags to antique chairs to vintage wool sweaters with holes. (The sweaters are a favorite of mine. One might even call it a collection.) It does my soul good, somehow. Reusing and repurposing are good for my pocketbook and the planet, too. :biggrin: A little granola, I know, and a little cheap, too. But I own some beautiful things that other people didn't want or couldn't fix or didn't know the value of, so it's also like I win a contest every time I shop. Lol


I haven't needed to do this with a bag, but when I repair other leather items, I find that inserting a piece of fabric or thin leather behind the crack or tear works wonders. It would be a little tricky here, and there is the seam allowance inside from the actual flap edge, but a piece of cotton bias binding in a similar color, or a bit of coat leather scrap carefully worked into the gap will help prevent the edging from flattening from the pressure required to set the cement, as well as reinforcing that spot. If you lightly coat the piece with cement and let it dry to tacky before inserting it with tweezers or a knitting needle, and then bond the cracked leather to that piece and edge to edge, it will help distribute the pressure of use away from the weakened area.
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I love this! Most of our furniture is preloved too. I miss the days when craigslist was more active, but I don't need any more furniture.
 
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Morgan_Bellini said:
Response to Lake Effect: (sorry for the missing quote)
Yes, BT. I decided to go ahead and dunk again because the splotches on the bag really bothered me. I used just plain water, no soap, and the first thing I noticed was how susdy the water got right away. Maybe I didn't rinse all of the soap out from the last two dunks. I put a LOT of soap on the ink stains in the previous dunks. The second thing I noticed was how slimy the bag felt when It went in the water. I had applied approximately four coats of Leather CPR on it after the last dunk. I had also applied CPR to it after the first dunk but it didn't feel slimy in the second dunk. The third and last thing I noticed is that the bag did not absorb the water as evenly as it had in the first two dunks. It looks like a pinto horse now, with very defined dark areas. I will update after it has had some time to soak and dry. My stomach sank when I put it in the 3rd bath and noticed these things. I was really growing fond of this bag even though I bought it specifically to experiment on. I have to remind myself of that! Hopefully she comes out of this bath usable at the very least.
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I had some very good outcomes early on with several lighter colored bags. I know unconsciously it made me a little ambitious. Then a bag I was having hopes for was a meh result and it was reminder that dunking and rehabbing is essentially unpredictable! Was it just the back of your bag with the dark areas? Since it was a bag that was designed to be experimental, maybe you can rethink the shaded areas as, interesting? Patina? If I really like the look or style overall of a bag, I can live with the imperfections, most of the time. When I got my black Plaza, it was faded overall and I really wasn’t satisfied with it until I touched it up with leather recolorant.
Also, I ended up gifting a few of my worn bags to a friend who gushed over them when I was showing her some early rehabs. She is in a work situation where she needs to plop her bag on a floor throughout the day.
 
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Curious what color my courier will be. Listing pics she was BT, in person she made a good case for tabac, wet I thought mocha, but less wet and with a coat of CPR because she felt pretty dried out even soaking wet she is redder and more the BT color of the listing pics. It’s a mystery
 
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catthecurious said:
Looks like you got the Mini-Canteen Bag, because the regular Canteen is a bit bigger and would hold much more than the phone only.



Here's the picture of both Willis bags from a 1997 catalog, hope that would give you an idea about difference in size. The Winnie doesn't hold much, in my experience, because it has tapered profile and that makes it even smaller than it seems.
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I have the mini Willis and it is adorable :smile: It is also a ridiculous size, Lol!

Determined to wear it, I transfered all of my cards from a wallet into a little zip pouch I bought through ebay. ( I think it was about 4 dollars with free shipping but took weeks to arrive ) The pouch is just large enough for my cards - I keep the ones I use frequently at the front and it works out well.

With the card pouch, I can also just for my phone, lip stuff and a wee bottle of purel and a tiny tissue pack.

It's like Jenga in there though. When I go to take something out I have to be careful to not have everything spill out. If I leave the phone out, it's much better.
 
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Lake Effect said:
I had some very good outcomes early on with several lighter colored bags. I know unconsciously it made me a little ambitious. Then a bag I was having hopes for was a meh result and it was reminder that dunking and rehabbing is essentially unpredictable! Was it just the back of your bag with the dark areas? Since it was a bag that was designed to be experimental, maybe you can rethink the shaded areas as, interesting? Patina? If I really like the look or style overall of a bag, I can live with the imperfections, most of the time. When I got my black Plaza, it was faded overall and I really wasn’t satisfied with it until I touched it up with leather recolorant.
Also, I ended up gifting a few of my worn bags to a friend who gushed over them when I was showing her some early rehabs. She is in a work situation where she needs to plop her bag on a floor throughout the day.
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I kinda like the markings on the bag. They make it look rustic with, as you mentioned, patina. I love patina! It's on day 2 of drying after dunk #3 and I can already see that the dark spots are still there on the back of the bag. I just wonder why they didn't show up after dunk #1 and will this happen to future bags? Regardless, I will love it and use it.
 
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