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Leather Paint For Shoes

Ben Staerck 12 Jan 2021 0

In today's blog we look into painting leather shoes. This can be to create designs using our Leather Paint, or restore or change the colour of your footwear too, using our Shoe Colouring Kit.Painting leather shoes: what are my options?You can use two different products for painting leather shoes, depending on what you want to achieve.Leather Paint – Use this for hand painting creative designs and ...

How To Apply Danish Oil

Jessica Barron 11 Jan 2021 0

How to use Danish Oil Today's blog is all about Danish Oil; how to use it and how to apply it.Step 1 – Clean the woodBefore applying the Danish Oil, it is important to properly clean the wood and remove any old finishes. This will ensure the oil is fully absorbed, creating an even and an attractive, natural, satin finish.To clean the wood, we recommend using a specialist Wood Cleaner.Our Wood Clea...

Leather Car Seat Repair

Ben Staerck 01 Jan 2021 0

Repairing a leather car seat overview Below we show you step-by-step how to repair a leather car seat. We’ll be repairing the faded leather on a BMW car seat bolster in dakota beige; the rest of the seat is just dirty and needs cleaning. We’ll be using the Leather Colourant Kit to repair the car seat, which includes all the product needed to prepare the leather, restore the colour and seal it afte...

Teak Oil Vs Danish Oil

Ben Staerck 31 Dec 2020 0

What’s the difference between Teak Oil and Danish Oil? They are both wood oils designed to soak in, protect, and enhance wooden surfaces. They both work on indoor wood such as furniture, flooring and cabinetry and they also both work on outdoor wood such as garden furniture.There are still differences between these two wood oils, which we’ll explore in more detail below, but to keep things super e...

Raw vs Boiled Linseed Oil

Ben Staerck 21 Dec 2020 0

The beaker on the left contains Raw Linseed Oil and the beaker on the right contains Boiled Linseed Oil.What is linseed Oil? Linseed oil is obtained from the seed of the linseed–flax plant and is one of the most useful, and most popular natural finishing oils in the world.It has been used for hundreds of years for the protection and maintenance of interior and exterior wood, and is often used as a...

What Is Teak Oil?

Jessica Barron 18 Dec 2020 0

Teak Oil provides many benefits to wood and is a popular choice for wood finishing. We recommend Teak Oil for Garden Furniture, as this is where it performs its best. What is Teak Oil?Teak Oil is a wood finishing oil used to protect and nourish wood. It penetrates deep into the grain of the wood to create a long lasting, hard wearing finish that protects the wood and enhances its beauty.Our Teak ...

Using Our Car Leather Cleaner

Ben Staerck 11 Dec 2020 0

Leather Car Seat Cleaner Our Leather Cleaner works on all types of leather, not just leather car seats, although we have been an active company in the UK automotive industry for almost 20 years. In this time our Leather Cleaner has won many product awards including receiving 20/20 by Classics Monthly Magazine who voted it the best leather car seat cleaner, and also a recommendation badge by Practi...

What Is A Leather Healing Balm

Jessica Barron 04 Dec 2020 0

We call it Leather Re-Colouring Balm, but people often refer to it as a healing balm due to the way it restores ‘heals’ leather. It is a pigmented cream that has been designed to quickly and easily restore tired, faded and damaged leather.How does the Leather Balm work? For scuffs, scratches and lightly cracked leather, a Leather Balm will soak into the damaged area and restore the colour, blendin...

Dark Oak & Light Oak Wood Stains

Jessica Barron 01 Dec 2020 0

Our different types of Oak Wood Stain Our Wood Stains can be used on all different types of wood to stain them any colour. In this article we will look at our range of Oak Wood Stains and how you can use them to stain any wood to look like oak.You could also use our Oak Wood Stain to stain oak; to enhance the colour of the wood.When using a paint to colour wood, you risk hiding the natural grain. ...

Pine Wood Stain

Ben Staerck 30 Nov 2020 0

A look at Pine Wood Stain In this blog post we will look at our Pine Wood Stain and how it looks when applied to wood, and also how to stain pine (the type of wood).You see ‘pine’ is not just a colour of Wood Stain, but also a type of wood that can be stained, and so I feel it is important to cover all options in this post. We will look at:Applying Pine Wood Stain onto pine.Applying Wood Stain (in...

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