Re: [CR]cleaning leather saddles -- abit more info FWIW

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From: "Philip Martin" <psphil@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: [CR]cleaning leather saddles -- abit more info FWIW
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:05:00 -0500
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I was able to find some info on contents of proofide but not much on what is in other kinds of leather conditioners

Proofide has Tallow (AKA Animal Fat), Cod Oil, Vegetable Oil, Beeswax, and Chamomile Oil.

My Akadama glove conditioner is a bit circumspect about ingredients -- it claims to be light on oil (and its consistency is unlike most oil-based conditioners I have used) but contains lanolin (made from gunk secreted by wool bearing animals --yuck). A lot of other kinds of leather conditioners, near as I can tell, have lanolin but Proofide does not (perhaps lanolin is the softener saddles need to avoid -- although lanolin is basically a wax so I am not sure how that gibes with beeswax in proofide).

I suppose if you can't lay your hands on proofide, can't find a product you like, or want to go really retro, you can get a cow, a fish, some wesson oil, a beehive, and some chamomile flowers (short cut would be to just get the oil), mix it all together in a big pot --bam, home made saddle conditioner (just like they did it in the old days ;-))

Philip Martin
Arlington VA USA


----- Original Message -----
From: John Wood
To: Tom Harriman
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]cleaning leather saddles



> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Tom Harriman <transition202@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> A good souses of information about this would be a local horse and saddle
>> s
>> hop. A good horse saddle can start at 5,000 dollars, and go up from
>> there.
>> Horse people take really good care of there saddles. This kind of infor
>> is a little hard top come by in San Francisco, but I'll see what I can
>> do.
>
>
> Well, it ought to be easy to come by in Red Lodge, MT - I'll ask the
> horse
> people I know.
>
> John Wood
> Red Lodge, MT - where horses most likely outnumber people.
>
>>
>>
>> Tom Harriman
>> San Francisco, Ca.
>>
>> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:04:24 -0500
>> > From: cwstudio@aol.com
>> > Subject: [CR]cleaning leather saddles
>> >
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I have recently acquired a very nice Fuji leather saddle, which is in
>> nee
>> d o
>> > f cleaning and conditioning, and am wondering about the best way to
>> proce
>> ed.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > My first inclination is to get a quality saddle soap for the cleaning
>> por
>> tio
>> > n of the process, and then use Brooks Proofide to condition it.
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > If anyone has experience in this particular matter, I would really like
>> t
>> o l
>> > earn more about it. Then I plan on riding the saddle!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Chris Wimpey
>> >
>> > San Diego, CA
>> >
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