I use these also, probably because of the same recommendation. Each moist cloth can be used many times and does a great job on other metals, including silver.
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Sorry you're not happy with it, but based on your photos that's a pretty dramatic improvement!
I like the Sunshine brand yellow polishing cloths for brass. They work on silver as well.
Willis finished. Still a bit of drying inside but Im happy.
Love how the dowel wants to stay on top now!
Thanks you for sharing your experience @LunaSilver. Wow! I agree with @MaraudingMagpie that the end results looks really good! You can't tell there was a mark on the front and the back doesn't look bad if you didn't say what happened.
I recently bought the same Bridle Top Handle bag and it was in pretty good condition except for some indentation marks on the top left and back pocket that were likely from long term storage. I only did surface cleaning with a few drops of dawn and a little vinegar combined with water, then rainse off well with vinegar and water. I usually don't dunk bags that I'm uncertain if the material will do well. The indentation improved some after I went over the back multiple times with moist paper towel and hair dryer on low heat.
The first two pictures are before and then the after
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Gorgeous! Is that burgundy or mahogany? My mahogany one skews more brown than reddish.
Different years of mahogany are different. I think earlier versions were more red than later ones.
Yeah, I know. The red in it is so pretty.
ETA: My mahogany Ranch bag isn't very red either. It's more like chocolate.
Yours looks really good. You did a great job rehab it. (Whenever I see other people's made in Italy bag, they are always looking so elegant and nice, but mine always not).
My fault is I tend to put bags in water first before any thinking. Lol.. those made in Italy bags need to be babied like what you did.
Inspired by @LunaSilver sharing her mistake, I also want to share a big one I recently discovered hoping to spare others from going through what I did.
In a recent rehab, the turnlock had an unusual amount of verdigris. A bag I was wearing was close by and for whatever reason I looked at the turnlock and saw there was verdigris on it! Imagine my surprise since I live in dry inland Northern California and thought verdigris only happened to bags closer to the coast where it's hot and humid, like Florida. I removed the turnlock and discovered more verdigris underneath. I went on to inspect more bags and found verdigris on 6 more bags I had cleaned and conditioned throughly, including two recently finished!
I usually try to clean any visible verdigris really well on the turnlocks and other hardware. I don't remove the hardware unless it's absolutely necessary since I would hate to scratch the hardware or the leather in the process. A while back someone said they always remove the turnlock and I thought that was overdoing it. Big mistake! Wished I had listened then!
Here is the process I used to clean the verdigris. Most of it is gained here from other wonderful rehabbers. Scraped off as much of the verdigris as possible from the turnlock and carefully from the bag. I used a small flat screwdriver. Using paper towel, wipe the rest of the verdigris from the turnlock pieces and drop them in full strength vinegar to soak. Make sure to get it all out of the groves on the bag, otherwise you'll have to repeat the next steps again, like I did! Using an old toothbrush, wash the area with verdigris with dawn, vinegar and water mixture in a cup, rinse it off with water, then dunked the whole bag in vinegar and water to avoid any water stains. Dry and condition as you normally do. I did the same to the other bags and hope the verdigris doesn't come back!
I've been a long time lurker here learning so much from everyone. Thanks to all who so freely share your experience and knowledge!
In a recent rehab, the turnlock had an unusual amount of verdigris. A bag I was wearing was close by and for whatever reason I looked at the turnlock and saw there was verdigris on it! Imagine my surprise since I live in dry inland Northern California and thought verdigris only happened to bags closer to the coast where it's hot and humid, like Florida. I removed the turnlock and discovered more verdigris underneath. I went on to inspect more bags and found verdigris on 6 more bags I had cleaned and conditioned throughly, including two recently finished!
I usually try to clean any visible verdigris really well on the turnlocks and other hardware. I don't remove the hardware unless it's absolutely necessary since I would hate to scratch the hardware or the leather in the process. A while back someone said they always remove the turnlock and I thought that was overdoing it. Big mistake! Wished I had listened then!
Here is the process I used to clean the verdigris. Most of it is gained here from other wonderful rehabbers. Scraped off as much of the verdigris as possible from the turnlock and carefully from the bag. I used a small flat screwdriver. Using paper towel, wipe the rest of the verdigris from the turnlock pieces and drop them in full strength vinegar to soak. Make sure to get it all out of the groves on the bag, otherwise you'll have to repeat the next steps again, like I did! Using an old toothbrush, wash the area with verdigris with dawn, vinegar and water mixture in a cup, rinse it off with water, then dunked the whole bag in vinegar and water to avoid any water stains. Dry and condition as you normally do. I did the same to the other bags and hope the verdigris doesn't come back!
I've been a long time lurker here learning so much from everyone. Thanks to all who so freely share your experience and knowledge!
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What year and from which plant was this bag made? It does look burgundy. It's STUNNING!!