leather mender

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leather mender

Postby softball66 » April 1st, 2008, 8:18 am

I saw a commercial on television last night for a "leather mendor" repair product where you can repair tears, holes in leather. Looks like you have to mix a little paint colors to match the leather one is repairing.
Have any of our glove repair folks tried this on our leather gloves? :?:
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Postby BretMan » April 1st, 2008, 10:38 am

I would be curious to know the answer to this myself. I've seen the commercials and, naturally, using it on a glove was my first thought!
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Postby vintagebrett » April 1st, 2008, 10:43 am

Interesting idea - I may purchase just to test out and see how it goes. It might be fun to try and patch some lining holes in some beater gloves to see what happens.
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Postby Cowboy7130 » April 1st, 2008, 12:10 pm

I would like to know how that stuff works, too. I have always been afraid it would look like plastic or vinyl patching on leather.
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Postby JC » April 1st, 2008, 11:13 pm

I bet it works just as well as that "spray paint" crap that they sell on TV to cover bald spots on the back of your head :D
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Postby wjr953 » April 3rd, 2008, 9:19 am

Yeah, I would also be interested in how that works. If it does a decent cosmetic repair on a display glove, that would be o.k. I wonder if it would hold up on a working glove. As for the "crap" you spray on your head to hide baldness...., only in America, the land of the flowbee, the pocket fisherman, etc., etc. lol
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Postby Mike_2007 » April 7th, 2008, 4:39 pm

"I bet it works just as well as that "spray paint" crap that they sell on TV to cover bald spots on the back of your head "

We used to call it "man in a can" :D
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Postby dapert » August 27th, 2008, 8:03 am

Has anybody ended up trying this? I've got a glove where two holes in the finger that join to the web have ripped and become one hole. I tried to mend it with super glue along the edges and it held fine until a ball hit that spot and it came right apart again.
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