**The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**

[BostonHedonist]

 

[Joshua Lee]

Hi Guys,

I'm in need of some advice on fixing a dye job I did on a suede/leather bag. Recently, I used Tarrago Suede / Nubuck dye (Alcohol based, penetrating dye) to change the color from Green to a darker navy. The results were pretty successful overall, however there were some incidents where the suede dye landed on the vegetable tanned (no glazing/ailine finish) sections of the bag.

Any ideas how to remove the dye or slightly blend it out of the leather sections? Considering the leather doesn't have a protective layer / finishing and is only vegetable tanned, I'm assuming the dye penetrated some layers of the leather but not fully as it's not incredibly dark. Hopefully there's a solution where I can lift some of the dye out and then use a highly pigmented cream to even out the color, or worst case scenario, use a leather dye to completely mask the original color.

Much appreciated for your time gents!

 

[patrickBOOTH]

If rubbing with renomat or some sort of deglazer doesn't work leather doctor has a product called "Prep-4.4" that will remove it. The downside to any removal methods is it will most likely take off some or all of that red dye that is there so you will have to work on redying and blending the color. Might be better off just leaving the dye-over-color parts alone if you don't want a more serious project.

 

[patrickBOOTH]



I'm not sure what caused this but I have a couple of these lighter colored spots on my relatively new EGs. Its hard to see in this lighting but I tried my best to show, its right in the middle below the stitching. I tried cleaning with water and AE leather conditioner/cleaner but no luck. Any advice? Thanks!

Overall I think this is a non-issue. I had to look pretty hard to see what you were talking about. Try rubbing with some alcohol, or renomat. If that doesn't work, I don't know what to tell you. After using any kind of solvent you're most likely going to have to rebuild a bit of the finish using some cream polish gradually in steps. If I were you, I'd just try to use some bad wax or cream polish and if that doesn't work in small amounts ignore it.

 

[jsofia]

Acetone or reno mat is probably overkill for that small amount of wax on there. Try the least most invasive method first such as distilled water and vinegar solution 1:3 ratio. If that doesn't work try alcohol. That should do the trick. Afterwards condition with some Lexol and apply some cream polish sparingly and buff.

Gave it a try, worked a little bit but still very pronounced. As you can see from picture I've got the area pretty stripped/light now.

So, to refinish the area to match the rest of the shoe - any advice?

Any advice on how to minimize the appearance of the black stripes?

 

[patrickBOOTH]

I'd start with putting some lexol on the vamp. Let it dry and buff it. Then put a light coat of medium brown cream polish and buff. Keep putting light coats and buffing.

 

[traverscao]

Hi Guys,

I'm in need of some advice on fixing a dye job I did on a suede/leather bag. Recently, I used Tarrago Suede / Nubuck dye (Alcohol based, penetrating dye) to change the color from Green to a darker navy. The results were pretty successful overall, however there were some incidents where the suede dye landed on the vegetable tanned (no glazing/ailine finish) sections of the bag.

Any ideas how to remove the dye or slightly blend it out of the leather sections? Considering the leather doesn't have a protective layer / finishing and is only vegetable tanned, I'm assuming the dye penetrated some layers of the leather but not fully as it's not incredibly dark. Hopefully there's a solution where I can lift some of the dye out and then use a highly pigmented cream to even out the color, or worst case scenario, use a leather dye to completely mask the original color.

Much appreciated for your time gents!

If rubbing with renomat or some sort of deglazer doesn't work leather doctor has a product called "Prep-4.4" that will remove it. The downside to any removal methods is it will most likely take off some or all of that red dye that is there so you will have to work on redying and blending the color. Might be better off just leaving the dye-over-color parts alone if you don't want a more serious project.

That russet-esque surface is easily restored through burnishing, if those are veg tanned leathers, or else care products will most likely bring some color saturation, which will uniform the colors better.

 

[chogall]

So you are knowledgeable? I take it that you are, for what it's worth, but if you're swifting Corthay's tails and are oblivious to names like Dimitri Gomez, then you're one heck of a laugh.

You do seems to know a lot for someone who most likely havent seen their bespoke works.

 

[traverscao]

You do seems to know a lot for someone who most likely havent seen their bespoke works.

My appreciation to your recognition.

No, I've seen their work a LOT. I do analysis on their work almost weekly. I have to, because if I'm gonna spend couple grand on a pair of shoes, it must be worth it, and I HAVE to make sure I don't buy brand name's bullshit.

 

[chogall]

My appreciation to your recognition.

No, I've seen their work a LOT. I do analysis on their work almost weekly. I have to, because if I'm gonna spend couple grand on a pair of shoes, it must be worth it, and I HAVE to make sure I don't buy brand name's bullshit.

What do you have to inhale to conjure images of shoes you have never seen in real life for your weekly analysis?

 

[traverscao]

What do you have to inhale to conjure images of shoes you have never seen in real life for your weekly analysis?

I don't have to see it in real life, chogall. There are thousand others who could do that for me. It isn't like the kind of village world where we only get words of mouth. Nowadays, we have the internet, which includes information of all records and videos; we have friends, whom can share, or work the sharing part for us. I'm not one of those dumb ***** who follows the crowd, chogall. When I criticize, I have to have a reason to do, or speak of, such thing. It's not like my friends are those bunch of drunkard dicks without a job. I have friends from LA to NYC, to London, Paris, Tokyo, and even Sydney. I don't have to pay, or to touch, even.

 

[smoothie1]

These ridiculous pissing contests are the worst. Can we get back to discussing shoes?

 

[traverscao]

I could try find an agreement in there.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

What exactly is the argument?

 

[Zapasman]

This,

What happened here?