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Lexol? I remember that being recommended for shoes here on SF about 10 years ago...

So, for a shearling jacket, are there any recommended products for maintenance and maybe for protection for when you get caught in the rain? Or is it best just to go with the guidelines like the ones here, that doesn't seem to advocate anything like that? (The one I have is smooth on the outside, not rough as the ones in that link, if that makes a difference.)

I wouldn't do much with it unless you "need" to. Because of the nature of the hide, the outer skin side still has the hair attached. The underside (which is the outside of the jacket) is split flesh. They can do some finish work on it, but not a high heat stamp like you would see on a top grain leather. Because of this, the finish on the flesh side is not as robust as leather and often why its brushed into suede.

*edit* Lexol is good enough stuff, and I use it in my shop. I still prefer pure neatsfoot or pure lanolin.

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Sun is also a factor. If you leave untreated leather in the sun it will darken or tan, which is where the process (tanning) gets its name.

Let me know if you want to hear about "piss poor".

-DL

I assume that comes from the practice of using piss at tanneries?

I've also read about the tradition of using piss in making woad, as well as fulling wool. YouTube has some good videos of women singing waulking songs. (I don't know if this specific one involves pee, but the song is pretty)




Lexol? I remember that being recommended for shoes here on SF about 10 years ago...

So, for a shearling jacket, are there any recommended products for maintenance and maybe for protection for when you get caught in the rain? Or is it best just to go with the guidelines like the ones here, that doesn't seem to advocate anything like that? (The one I have is smooth on the outside, not rough as the ones in that link, if that makes a difference.)

I also don't do anything to shearling. Or really anything for leather jackets. I've sprayed suede jackets with a waterproofer though just to avoid stains.
 

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Lol crazy
 

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I assume that comes from the practice of using piss at tanneries?

Yes, poor families would collect their urine and men would come round from tanneries to pick it up. Hence "piss-poor" is a level of poverty one step above "without a pot to piss in."
 

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I assume that comes from the practice of using piss at tanneries?

I've also read about the tradition of using piss in making woad, as well as fulling wool. YouTube has some good videos of women singing waulking songs. (I don't know if this specific one involves pee, but the song is pretty)






I also don't do anything to shearling. Or really anything for leather jackets. I've sprayed suede jackets with a waterproofer though just to avoid stains.



Yup. If you were "piss poor" your only means of income was to sell your piss to the tanner. If you didn't have a pot to piss in, you were even worse off.

Quoddy sells a conditioner for their shoes made with bear fat. You use your bare (no pun intended) hand to work it in as the heat from your skin and the friction allows it to break down and work deeper into the leather. At least that is what I was told, not 100% sold on that theory.

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Sun is also a factor. If you leave untreated leather in the sun it will darken or tan, which is where the process (tanning) gets its name.

-DL

This is not true. Tanning gets its meaning from the word “tan” which was the crushed oak bark which was used to vegetable tan leather. That same word also gave us ‘tannin’.

Tanning meaning to turn dark from the sun came much later.
 

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Not much else to do lately so I will post some recent pics. Wested Raiders Hero in Prague, late February.

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Here’s a new Aero x Thurston Bros custom Ridley in dark seal Vicenza and antique brass hardware waiting for me at my sister’s house.

Don’t mind her poor photo skills

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Looking forward to getting this on and broken in once this mess is over.
I also have an Aero August in battered tan horsehide and a Bill Kelso Raiders on order.
 
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This is not true. Tanning gets its meaning from the word “tan” which was the crushed oak bark which was used to vegetable tan leather. That same word also gave us ‘tannin’.

Tanning meaning to turn dark from the sun came much later.

The "piss poor" etymology is also false. (The earliest use recorded in the OED comes from … 1945.) cf. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pis1.htm
 

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