Coach Rehab and Rescue Club

[pammbw]

Thank you for the info about the brass. If hubs has some fine steel wool in the garage I might give it a go. He does have a dremel but we need to buy some very fine tips for it and I am not quite ready for that anyway!

Another question regarding the paint I used to cover up spots on my recent rehab. I am reading that acrylic paint comes off with water? I did not expect that.I thought paint was permanent! How do you condition with CPR if you have had to paint some stains or applied paint to a large area? Is there not a permanent paint option available?

Redyeing might be the way to go- it's permanent and will not wash off.

 

[whateve]

Thank you for the info about the brass. If hubs has some fine steel wool in the garage I might give it a go. He does have a dremel but we need to buy some very fine tips for it and I am not quite ready for that anyway!

Another question regarding the paint I used to cover up spots on my recent rehab. I am reading that acrylic paint comes off with water? I did not expect that.I thought paint was permanent! How do you condition with CPR if you have had to paint some stains or applied paint to a large area? Is there not a permanent paint option available?

It is permanent under normal use once paint cured, unless you dunk the bag again, then paint may slowly soak up water, you will be able to scrub most paint off with some elbow grease.
One British tan bag I bought was thinly coated with paint, I only find out during dunking the bag. I was able to remove 95 percent of the paint. The end result was a very rustic looking tan Leather bag with darker speckles every where . Lol...
You can still condition with cpr after paint cured, buff the leather with cpr till absorbed, some floating paint color will come off with first cpr application, but will only make the appearance more natural. The color loss won't be much or near none for any additional cpr conditioning.

I like the fact that the paint isn't permanent right away. That way I can correct it if I don't like how it looks. After a few days it becomes more permanent. I don't condition right after painting unless I want to remove a bit of the paint and help blend it in.

I am having a problem with mixing paint with conditioner. It doesn't go on evenly.

 

[artax two]

I like the fact that the paint isn't permanent right away. That way I can correct it if I don't like how it looks. After a few days it becomes more permanent. I don't condition right after painting unless I want to remove a bit of the paint and help blend it in.

I am having a problem with mixing paint with conditioner. It doesn't go on evenly.

Hmm I did not seem to have an issue with mixing with CPR. It did apprear that it was going on uneven but it absolutely blended in perfectly as it dried. I used gloved fingers and smeared it on pretty much the same way I always do CPR. Are you trying to blend it in to a small spot or a bigger area?

 

[houseof999]

Dunked this Willis for my super sweet neighbor. The bag smells of smoke but she's a smoker so I'm not trying to get the smoke smell out at all. I've got myself a piping repair job too!

 

[whateve]

Hmm I did not seem to have an issue with mixing with CPR. It did apprear that it was going on uneven but it absolutely blended in perfectly as it dried. I used gloved fingers and smeared it on pretty much the same way I always do CPR. Are you trying to blend it in to a small spot or a bigger area?

I'm trying to blend it on piping. It's like it isn't evenly mixed, even though I've stirred it. Part of it goes on clear and then I get a line of color.

 

[Narnanz]

Dunked this Willis for my super sweet neighbor. The bag smells of smoke but she's a smoker so I'm not trying to get the smoke smell out at all. I've got myself a piping repair job too!
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Got a mahogany one coming...how do you remove the turnlocks on these...dont they sit in a pocket or something?

 

[artax two]

I'm trying to blend it on piping. It's like it isn't evenly mixed, even though I've stirred it. Part of it goes on clear and then I get a line of color.

After I figured out q-tips weren't giving me quite the result I wanted, I found spongeing it on with a cosmetic sponge worked pretty good. If you have not tried that already, that might be an idea.

 

[houseof999]

Got a mahogany one coming...how do you remove the turnlocks on these...dont they sit in a pocket or something?

Same way as all other turnlocks using the same tools. I'm not removing hardware in this one. It's not brass and I see no signs of tarnishing. Just the male part has loss of coating and my friend doesn't care. She said it adds to is vintage charm.

 

[whateve]

After I figured out q-tips weren't giving me quite the result I wanted, I found spongeing it on with a cosmetic sponge worked pretty good. If you have not tried that already, that might be an idea.

I tried that, and also with my fingers. Since it is on piping on a spectator bag, I need to be precise and keep it off the body of the bag, so my fingers seem to work the best. I'm hoping with multiple coats it will even out.

 

[LunaSilver]

I'm trying to blend it on piping. It's like it isn't evenly mixed, even though I've stirred it. Part of it goes on clear and then I get a line of color.

I tried that, and also with my fingers. Since it is on piping on a spectator bag, I need to be precise and keep it off the body of the bag, so my fingers seem to work the best. I'm hoping with multiple coats it will even out.

After I figured out q-tips weren't giving me quite the result I wanted, I found spongeing it on with a cosmetic sponge worked pretty good. If you have not tried that already, that might be an idea.

Just painted a Navy Devon today. Had this bag for 2 years as a faded black bag. Dunked it 2 days ago and realized it had black shoe polish. Lots of work to remove the shoe polish, but it had lots of color loss so need a paint job.

As to paint streaks, I think thin layer of paint and cpr mix is better, then give it some time to dry before apply second layer. If the second layer is immediately following the first layer, it will cause streak marks, mostly from the semi dry first layer of paint was disturbed.

 

[jdal622]

For modern bags, they really used edge coating. I find edgekote to be very difficult to work with. It is thin and requires multiple layers. What I've done on modern bags is use fabric puffy paint. It is shiny like the original edge coating and goes on thick so you can get the same thickness and look of the original.

I'm going to give it a try. I read the reviews on edgekote and they were not so great on most. It's one of my favorite totes so I'd hate to put it out to pasture. I just bought another tote the other day as well that has the same problem. Not nearly as bad as my original though so I have hope.

 

[Busykitty]

Got a mahogany one coming...how do you remove the turnlocks on these...dont they sit in a pocket or something?

Nope, they’re right there for the grabbing! Lol

 

[valv54]

A rehab tale. My lavender daypack is kind of rough shape, its faded, scuffed, and has little pen tics all over. I had a purple surfine creme from saphir that I got for my purple station, well the color was to light for my station so maybe it would work for my daypack. Wrong, put it on my daypack and it was to dark. Rewashed the daypack, and noticed the purple stained the bag. Got terrago "dye" off of Amazon in lavender, not the right color at all, way to pink, thankfully it came off with some leather cpr. I think we're just gonna leave it alone from now on, she dosent look that bad. Maybe someday I'll find one in better shape.

 

[artax two]

A rehab tale. My lavender daypack is kind of rough shape, its faded, scuffed, and has little pen tics all over. I had a purple surfine creme from saphir that I got for my purple station, well the color was to light for my station so maybe it would work for my daypack. Wrong, put it on my daypack and it was to dark. Rewashed the daypack, and noticed the purple stained the bag. Got terrago "dye" off of Amazon in lavender, not the right color at all, way to pink, thankfully it came off with some leather cpr. I think we're just gonna leave it alone from now on, she dosent look that bad. Maybe someday I'll find one in better shape.

It's hard to see anything in the photos, it looks really pretty to me.

 

[Momscoach]

It is permanent under normal use once paint cured, unless you dunk the bag again, then paint may slowly soak up water, you will be able to scrub most paint off with some elbow grease.
One British tan bag I bought was thinly coated with paint, I only find out during dunking the bag. I was able to remove 95 percent of the paint. The end result was a very rustic looking tan Leather bag with darker speckles every where . Lol....

I got burned on a bag I bought on EBay. I didn’t know it was painted until I dunked it. The paint came off and revealed huge stains. The seller wouldn’t refund, EBay wouldn’t refund. PayPal wouldn’t refund. My CC company wouldn’t chargeback. All because I dunked the bag. When the paint came off, they said I altered the bag. How about the fact that the seller sold me a painted bag without disclosing the paint job in the listing? Talk about fraud. If I didn’t dunk the bag, I would not have found the stains. But because I discovered the paint fraud, they wouldn’t refund me based on a technicality. It was a nightmare.