[Trombone-l] Leather case care? HELP!!!

[Earl Needham]

At 10:33 AM 9/8/2007, Daniel Pliskin wrote:
>>So...now that I am masquerading as a grownup, I'd like to keep these
>>fine pieces of the casemaker's art looking good.
>
>I use Sno-Proof for oil-tanned leather.  It's a waxy grease version 
>of neatsfoot oil.  You actually have to heat the leather and/or the 
>Sno-Proof up, in order to get Sno-Proof to penetrate the leather.  A 
>warm oven or the hot sun will work.  But once in there, it also 
>won't ooze out.  And it conditions the leather like neatsfoot oil.
>
>I've been using it on leather ski gear, since I was a kid (a long 
>time ago) and its always worked wonders for me.  It WILL darken the 
>leather, creating a beautiful oil-tanned look.  I've had such great 
>luck with Sno-Proof that I look at products, which promise not to 
>darken the leather as "obvious rip-offs", out to take money from 
>unsuspecting lovers of suede.

         I do the same thing, with the exact same procedure, but the 
product I use is called Sno-Seal.  Comes in small tubes the size of 
Trombotine tubes or jars the size of small jars of Ponds.  Original.

         Earl

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