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Topic: Leather for turnshoes?
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Saverio
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posted 04-19-2002 10:39 PM
    
Water won't affect the oil tanned leather (I've tried  ) Is it possible to substitute mink oil for neatsfoot oil (no where to buy it around here). Would the 7 oz be too heavy for the uppers? Thanks,
Dan [ 04-19-2002: Message edited by: Saverio ]
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Brenna
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posted 04-20-2002 12:18 AM
Do you have a tack or feed shop nearby? How about a western wear place? Those are two great sources of neatsfoot oil.I second the "oil, not compound" as well. Use compound on tack and your stitches will rot out in no time. Brenna -------------------- Where in this world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle, and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent; there is nothing so quick, nothing so patient. England's past has been borne on his back. All our history is his industry: we are his heirs, he is our inheritance. Ladies and gentlemen: The Horse! - Robert Duncan's "Tribute to the Horse"
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Seigneur de Leon
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posted 04-20-2002 10:20 PM
I seldom use anything except mink oil in the grease form, not the oil. Neatsfoot oil is the nastiest stuff around. Not only does it "oversaturate" causing ripping and stretching, it sucks dust out of the air. When we used neatsfoot oil on our saddles, we always had the brown crotch syndrome, where your clothing is dirty and stained whenever it comes into contact with the oil.
Using a grease, which you polish off, we never have this staining.
True, it is difficult to get the penetration from grease you get with oil, but combined with "elbow grease" mink oil is far cleaner (although a lot more expensive) than neatsfoot oil.
I use mink oil grease on all my shoes, straps, belts, scabbards, tack, leather cottes and jerkins, as well as the flesh sides of my furs.
In twelve years I've never had stitches rot out, although we've replaced a lot of leather from leaving it within a horse's reach for "just a minute!!!"  -------------------- VERITAS IN INTIMO
VIRES IN LACERTU
SIMPLICITAS IN EXPRESSO
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Brenna
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posted 04-21-2002 11:39 AM
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When we used neatsfoot oil on our saddles, we always had the brown crotch syndrome, where your clothing is dirty and stained whenever it comes into contact with the oil.
Really? I have never had that problem but I have always applied neatsfoot oil with a rag and rubbed it in hard, rather than painting it on and leaving it like some people do. I don't really use it much on tack anymore though. I use plain white vinegar for cleaning most of the time (with old fashioned saddle soap if starting with a very dirty saddle) and Lederbalsam or Bienwachs for conditioning. Brenna -------------------- Where in this world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle, and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent; there is nothing so quick, nothing so patient. England's past has been borne on his back. All our history is his industry: we are his heirs, he is our inheritance. Ladies and gentlemen: The Horse! - Robert Duncan's "Tribute to the Horse"
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