Restoring old black leather holster - 01/06/22
I have a way old well used holster that could use a little TLC. The material is starting to show signs of age, wrinkles etc, and just hard useage has taken its toll.
If it were just plain brown leather my go-to solution would be to put some Obenaufs on it and call it a day.
But this one is black, and I'd like to not only "restore" it functionally (i.e. treat the aging leather) but bring the color back up a bit.
Not sure if black shoe polish gets me there, but I suppose it is an option, even if messy. I see it as more of a surface treatment, rather than soaking deeply into the dry leather: and therefore an incomplete solution.
So I figure I'd ask the fire...
If it were just plain brown leather my go-to solution would be to put some Obenaufs on it and call it a day.
But this one is black, and I'd like to not only "restore" it functionally (i.e. treat the aging leather) but bring the color back up a bit.
Not sure if black shoe polish gets me there, but I suppose it is an option, even if messy. I see it as more of a surface treatment, rather than soaking deeply into the dry leather: and therefore an incomplete solution.
So I figure I'd ask the fire...