Coach Rehab and Rescue Club
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You’ve brought this bag back to life! Truly an amazing job. These burgundy beauties are special 😍I have a busy few days here so I won’t keep you waitingHere are the before pictures of my burg Marketing Tote:
I posted on May 24 with some details of the process. And here it is following an app of Renapur, which I used for finishing. And lots of buffing:
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This was in early evening light. If you enlarge the photos, you can see a lot of blotchy-ness and unevenness from wear, comparable to the before photos. I love what the conditioners have done for this bag! I ended up using Brasso on the visible part of the rings (for the reminder @Narnanz). I need to brush out the suede interior pockets and hit the zipper pulls with a little Brasso and it is good to go! The interior was quite clean, given the wear. I understand many have a preference not to dunk (including those who did a lot of dunking in the past!). Owning many vintage Coach bags that do not appear to have been dunked and handling even more that were for sale, I do not feel the leather has been compromised (like my brothers’ baseball gloves that got left out in the rain - the glove-tanned leather that inspired the Cahn’s).
Between this and my burg Stewardess, has my burgundy vintage Coach itch been scratched??Will take them to the office tomorrow.
Hello hello! So I’ve recently received this slim satchel and as you can see, it has some verdigris in the strap connections and rings. Looked through the thread on how to deal with verdigris but curious if anyone has tips on how to specifically clean out the rings and target the verdigris in the crevices. Thanks in advance!
I'd scrape it out with toothpicks!
Thank you! I'm only happy to share what has worked for me. The information I have found in this forum has helped me so much. I hope I can repay some of it.
We have the same situation in EU. I think Amazon Germany used to have some 18oz bottles for about 80€ a pop + shipping, but those are gone now. And there are no sellers who sell it in the EU, and US sites won't deliver it. So I'm guessing it's more about regulation. EU, and I also suspect NZ are strict about such things. It might not even be so much about the ingredients, but that it's not disclosed what's in it.
Yes...that could be it.
I checked again after my comment and no sellers will send to NZ now.
But one of my amazing Fairy CoachMothers is helping me out again...and I am very appreciative about that.
Seconded! I scrape out as much as possible (very tediously) with the blunt end of toothpick and then saturate with straight white vinegar on a qtip pushed all the way through.
Hi all! Any suggestions for recoloring without wiping out the contrast stitching?
I’ve mined the archival posts but it seems like trying to preserve may be a lost cause. So I’m thinking about trying scotchguard applied to the thread with a toothpick first, to see if I get a little protection from bleed and shaky hands. Also considered sno seal / beeswax applied the same way but abandoned it bc of the heating involved and probability of the wax bleeding the other way onto the leather. If I was dealing with less stitching I might have tried that for curiosity.
I’ve also seen a “masking” product used this way and then rubbed off the stitching (I have to re-find the name). But it looked crazy labor intensive. Has anyone used a product like that? ETA: Geist Easy Masking Gel or Letech Masking Fluid?
Thanks!
I’ve mined the archival posts but it seems like trying to preserve may be a lost cause. So I’m thinking about trying scotchguard applied to the thread with a toothpick first, to see if I get a little protection from bleed and shaky hands. Also considered sno seal / beeswax applied the same way but abandoned it bc of the heating involved and probability of the wax bleeding the other way onto the leather. If I was dealing with less stitching I might have tried that for curiosity.
I’ve also seen a “masking” product used this way and then rubbed off the stitching (I have to re-find the name). But it looked crazy labor intensive. Has anyone used a product like that? ETA: Geist Easy Masking Gel or Letech Masking Fluid?
Thanks!
Exactly how I would do it. You want to do as much dry as you can. Once you get it wet, the stain can spread, but the vinegar is important to stop it.
No tips to share here, but I'm interested in what might work, as well. I have messed up a bag (or two) with contrast white stitching when I got black leather dye on it.
Unless someone suggests something different, I think I’m going to invest in the Geist gel for this bag. It seems to get good feedback from car restorers recoloring contrast stitched leather interiors. Might take awhile to get it but will share experience. It’s pricey so may not turn out to be great routine tool.
These tips were so helpful to read. Thank you all so much for the suggestions!