Anyone spoken to Tony Colegrave in the past few weeks? I've not been getting answers to my emails. I want to ask his advise on an Ideale mod 40 I recently acquired. Well worn, but perhaps capable of being reconditioned. Tony's sort of the high priest of that British cult of leather saddle fanciers who engage in mysterious rituals like soaking saddles in buckets of water, which horrifies most on this side of the Atlantic. I'm hoping he will divulge some of the mysteries of British saddlecraft to practice on this Ideale.
Regards,
Jerry Moos