Welcome to my blog about leather care & repair.

Welcome to my blog about leather care and repair everyone. I will be writing about all types of leather products for the care and treatment of your leather shoes, boots, bags, briefcases, coats/jackets, chaps, pants, skirts, furniture, motorcycle gear, saddlebags, saddles, tack, sports equipment, and basically anything that you can think of that is made from leather. In my over 30 years of experience, I have cleaned, conditioned, polished, waterproofed, recolored and repaired just about every kind of leather made product you have heard of and some you may not have.

I will be introducing you to many products and explaining just how to use them so that you can get the best results yourself. Everyone owns some type of shoes or boots that require cleaning, conditioning, polishing and repairing from time to time. I will start with talking about how to take care of your leather purses, briefcases, skirts and coats/jackets because the care for these articles and products is very much the same as taking care of your shoes and boots.  Although, the biggest difference is that you need to use more care in the amount of polish with color on these types of articles due to the fact that they tend to rub against your clothing throughout the day. You really do not want to have color transfer from say a burgundy briefcase onto a beige skirt or  khaki pants. I will explain how you can keep your articles clean, conditioned, polished and professional looking almost like new for a long time. Doing this yourself will save you lots of money as well.

I will also let you know about the places where you can find these different products to care for your leather articles as well as to get your articles repaired when needed. Lets face it, leather is not as strong as we all would like it to be. Some repairs you will be able to do yourself and I will explain how to do them. While other repairs will require the help of a trades craftsman such as a shoe repairman or a custom leather repair shop. Do not always think you have to go to a custom leather repair company though just because you have expensive leather goods. As a shoe repairman, I repaired so many different types of leather products that had nothing to do with shoes or boots. Shoe repairman in some cases have great skills to repair nearly any type of leather product, although there are some repairman that have not been trained properly either. So, if you do not find one that can repair your article, just go to the next repair shop and ask.

I will continue to post to this blog more information about how to care for your leather goods and give details on just how you can do it yourself or where you can go to get it done if you do not have the time.