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#34,847
amber1109 said:
Hi Narnanz, sorry it's been a while. But I just got the chance to dunk this dark green Lindsay and apply CPR to it. It becomes much better now! Thank you for your help.

Just one more thing that I'm not sure about. The color around the flap still didn't come back to usual. Do you have any suggestions on that?View attachment 5094621View attachment 5094622
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I'm not seeing it in natural lighting but if you moisten the piping and any other dry areas with a wet sponge to dampen the leather again and reapply CPR, it should come back. I've been repeating this process to slowly bring the colour back on my VERY distressed bag. Then you don't have to fully dunk the bag every time.
 
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americandreaming said:
I'm not seeing it in natural lighting but if you moisten the piping and any other dry areas with a wet sponge to dampen the leather again and reapply CPR, it should come back. I've been repeating this process to slowly bring the colour back on my VERY distressed bag. Then you don't have to fully dunk the bag every time.
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Thank you for your reply! Here are the photos under natural lighting. It seems the edges are worn out? Do you think the color will come back if it's been worn?3.jpg4.jpg
 
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amber1109 said:
Thank you for your reply! Here are the photos under natural lighting. It seems the edges are worn out? Do you think the color will come back if it's been worn?View attachment 5094632View attachment 5094633
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Happy to read any differing opinions but to me it looks like you just need to REALLY PILE ON the CPR. My Camel Court had edges even worse than that as I dried it out in the hot sun all day without conditioning (it hadn't arrived yet), the piping was almost fully powdery white and now it looks and feels supple and gorgeous. The before pics are somewhere in this thread and here's how it looks now below.

All I did was slather and moisten and slather and moisten and slather the conditioner on.

If you need to, use a more intense conditioner like Leather Therapy like I've seen recommended on here. I'm in the UK and use a local balsam specially made for aniline leather.

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amber1109 said:
Good afternoon rehabers! I'm going to rehab a turnlock of a coach vintage purse. It's my first time doing this. I plan to use BRASSO to remove tarnish, but don't know how to recover the coat on the turnlock.

May I know how you guys remove and add a new coating on the turnlock?View attachment 5094616
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I have used a jewelry-making product called Diamond Glaze to provide a protective coating on hardware:

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americandreaming said:
Happy to read any differing opinions but to me it looks like you just need to REALLY PILE ON the CPR. My Camel Court had edges even worse than that as I dried it out in the hot sun all day without conditioning (it hadn't arrived yet), the piping was almost fully powdery white and now it looks and feels supple and gorgeous. The before pics are somewhere in this thread and here's how it looks now below.

All I did was slather and moisten and slather and moisten and slather the conditioner on.

If you need to, use a more intense conditioner like Leather Therapy like I've seen recommended on here. I'm in the UK and use a local balsam specially made for aniline leather.

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OMG, it looks gorgeous! ! I have a vintage Willis in the same color. I'm kind of hesitant to dunk it, because it's light color and easy to leave watermarks. May I know how you avoid watermarks when dunking light color purses? Especially if we only moisten a small area, like piping, I feel it's really easy to leave watermarks on that area.
 
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americandreaming said:
Happy to read any differing opinions but to me it looks like you just need to REALLY PILE ON the CPR. My Camel Court had edges even worse than that as I dried it out in the hot sun all day without conditioning (it hadn't arrived yet), the piping was almost fully powdery white and now it looks and feels supple and gorgeous. The before pics are somewhere in this thread and here's how it looks now below.

All I did was slather and moisten and slather and moisten and slather the conditioner on.

If you need to, use a more intense conditioner like Leather Therapy like I've seen recommended on here. I'm in the UK and use a local balsam specially made for aniline leather.

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What a beauty!
 
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ConnieinSeattle said:
OK, another situation. I found this vintage Coach bag J5C-9978 today and I was SOOOOO excited. Beautiful. Really great condition. EXCEPT, I realized when I got it home that the thrift store had attached their price tag by poking a hole directly into the front leather. Yikes! Now what? View attachment 5094653View attachment 5094654
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If you give it a bath and massage the area between your fingers while it is wet; that might minimize the hole.
 
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amber1109 said:
Hi Narnanz, sorry it's been a while. But I just got the chance to dunk this dark green Lindsay and apply CPR to it. It becomes much better now! Thank you for your help.

Just one more thing that I'm not sure about. The color around the flap still didn't come back to usual. Do you have any suggestions on that?View attachment 5094621View attachment 5094622
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you might need to mix up some acrylic paint to match the green...put some cpr in with it and paint it on to the edges...Ive never done this so maybe wait for other opinions.
 
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amber1109 said:
OMG, it looks gorgeous! ! I have a vintage Willis in the same color. I'm kind of hesitant to dunk it, because it's light color and easy to leave watermarks. May I know how you avoid watermarks when dunking light color purses? Especially if we only moisten a small area, like piping, I feel it's really easy to leave watermarks on that area.
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I had no colour problems when dunking the Camel Court bag.

My piping on the bottom corners are slightly darkened for some unknown reason but I don't mind because they were totally white and powdery dry before, so it's a huge upgrade! LOL.
 
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americandreaming said:
Happy to read any differing opinions but to me it looks like you just need to REALLY PILE ON the CPR. My Camel Court had edges even worse than that as I dried it out in the hot sun all day without conditioning (it hadn't arrived yet), the piping was almost fully powdery white and now it looks and feels supple and gorgeous. The before pics are somewhere in this thread and here's how it looks now below.

All I did was slather and moisten and slather and moisten and slather the conditioner on.

If you need to, use a more intense conditioner like Leather Therapy like I've seen recommended on here. I'm in the UK and use a local balsam specially made for aniline leather.

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@amber1109 found some photographs of the tragic-looking piping on that sunny day.

You can see that it looks much worse than your piping and the only thing that brought the colour back to the after photograph I showed above was conditioning. I put thick layers on and left it to soak into the wet leather overnight etc, vigorously buffing off the excess with a nicrofibre cloth between layers

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