Re: [CR]Re: Leather handlebar wrap

(Example: Racing)

From: <CYCLETRUCK@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:18:37 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Leather handlebar wrap
To: OROBOYZ@aol.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


Dale....

Regretably several years at leather work do not an expert make.....at least it hasn't made one of me. But i'll tell you what I know.

There isn't much you can do with a damaged hair side. A bone burnisher (or hard wood or glass or the bottom of your denim britches, &c.) and some wax is about all that helps---that I know of.

There was a particularly durable dye --almost a paint--that Fiebings made (and maybe still does) that we used on badly scuffed up briefcases. It did the job but it wasn't as attractive as the original finish.

I also remember how tough it was to splice patch in a piece of leather to repair a cigarette burn or a tear and don't think that would be the best repair for a saddle.

G'luck.

Calvert Guthrie Kansas City

In a message dated 9/18/2001 10:55:19 PM Central Daylight Time, OROBOYZ@aol.com writes:


> Hey Calvert:
> Being as you are now identified as the expert :-)
> (at least a lot more so than I!) ..... is there a way to refinish scraps
> and
> boogers in the surface of a butte leather saddle?
> I once heard of burnishing bad spots with a smooth piece of bone (maybe I
> had
> read that in an old Straight Arrow card. Anyone else remember those?)
> Recently someone on the list said to never use shoe polish but I confess,
> using old Military School skills, I have "spit polished" a few cracks and
> crevices on a saddle or two. I assume that is, in fact, bad?
> So what can you tell me (and the others CR folks natch!) 'bout this leather
> business?
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina