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Originally Posted by
Anden 
Thanks guys,
I suspect it´s "polished binder"...
My thought was to sand it with a really fine sand paper (is that the correct term?) and then restore it once the outer layer has been taken of...
If they really are corrected grain, all you're likely to do is make a mess if you try to sand them.
You might try very fine grade steel wool, like 0000, just to see what happens. Even if you move it in tiny circles, like barely move your hand, it'll likely still end up looking like any other really shiny surface- think of your car being lightly sanded- with a whole bunch of little swirls in it, unless you spend hours minutely sanding the entire shoe evenly. Church's went to a lot of trouble to make those shoes look, and stay, shiny.
There just isn't a lot of depth to the color on corrected grain to handle the surface abrasion. Some of the shoe folks here might have better ideas, but I would think some kind of chemical treatment, like mineral spirits or something similar, might work better than sanding, but even that still seems like it would just make a mess and likely damage the shoes.
Just an opinion.
