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Posted on 2 July 2022
Past Gregg Boyer
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Fixing a scuff, scrape or gouge in leather

Kay asked:

I take a pair of Rios of Mercedes boots belonging to my belatedly hubby. Ane of the boots has a gouge about the size of a
dime in the side of the toe. Tin can this be repaired?

Answer:

Yes, your boots can be fixed. Our repair dept. at Boyers Bootnshoe, tin successfully buff out most scuffs, scrapes, and gouges. How much can be removed depends on several things, the color of the leather, how soft the leather is, and how deep the damage is. Repair of a black boot fabricated out of a firm leather is more successful than doing a light tan kick made out of very soft, light tan color leather. The black kick could be fabricated to look similar new. The tan boot may prove some of the impairment still, but volition expect remarkably meliorate.

Can you lot practise this yourself? Sure. Similar anything, having some experience and knowledge makes a deviation. Just, I'll share how nosotros might do it.

-Kickoff step: Clean the leather really well. Nosotros use a spot remover, like Fiebings Spot Remover for this. We apply this to prepare the surface of the scuffed black boot. Let that dry well. It may accept 10-15 minutes.

-2nd Step: If at that place are any raised-leather scuffs you may need to mucilage these downward.

Use Barge Contact Cement or An instant glue similar Crazy Gum can be used for this, Only let me warn you to exist very conscientious and not use besides much. The pull a fast one on here is put a dot glue on a slice of paper then apply a toothpick to pick up a drip of gum, to apply a very, small amount to the scuff.

At this point, nosotros may prepare the surface with very fine, sandpaper to brand information technology polish. Whether we do this or not depends a lot on the colour and type of leather. Please recall I'm speaking very by and large hither. Experience tells you what and how much to do.

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-3rd Stride: Now the leather needs to be "buffed" to smoothen out the blemishes. We will gear up the leather by applying a good foam shine like Kelly's Cream Polish. This fills in the dry leather and adds color

-quaternary Step: Buff the leather with a brush (become a buffing brush here)

-Concluding Step!: Lastly, we rub in a good hard wax like Angelus Shoe Wax Smoothen. This contains a hard Carnuba Wax that fills in the blotch and gives a smoothen also. Information technology may have every bit many as ii-six applications of wax to fill in the scuff to make it disappear.

(for more nigh using polishes check out our polish blog post)

With severe blemishes, well honestly we have "secret sauces" that we use. I won't share them all here not because they truly are secret just they really depend on the trouble. So, if what I've shared above doesn't fix your trouble, please inquire a more specific question and include a photo if possible and I'll share the secret y'all need. Y'all can ask a question of the Boot Guy at [email protected] or leave a comment below.

Slim, The Boot Guy