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Roger, A customer sent me pictures of a leather table top with indentations in it. I was planning to clean, rinse, Hydrate, fatliquor, Massage. If they remain I will use an iron.
How do you think we should proceed?
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Indentations are basically the crushing of the leather fiber structures.
The emphssis is hydrating to seperate and relax the crushed fibrils; the most effect approach is work from the suede side and soak it fully for a day or three prior to fatliquoring it suficiently; massaging, stretching or flexing while it's damp during both the hydrating and the fatliquoring process.
Heat pressing is only used as the last resort.
Standard chrome-tanned leather is easy...
Chrome-tanned with aluminum is not so easy...
Vegetable re-tanned leather is hard...
Vegetable-tanned leathers is harder...
It is all about memory retention!
Roger Koh
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Leather table top, I'm sure we can't work from the back side. If protected or waxed aniline will I be able to get hydration and fatliquor to penetrate from surface?
Test it out...
Put a cotton face pad; soak it up with Hydrator-3.3; place it over one of the dents; cling wrapped it to prevent evaporation and check it out after a day or two; to see if it darkens up...
Roger Koh
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