Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Here is an A2000 XL, which I have been working on. Here are a few pics. I relaced it, conditioned it, and replaced the thumb loop. Tell me what you all think. Thanks.

Looks great. Amazing what new laces and a coat of conditioner will do.

What kind of laces and conditioner did you use?

i got the laces from a local leather shop and i used lexol and a thin coat of vasaline

Looks beautiful and looks like it is ready to play some ball!

Can you describe how you replaced the thumb loop? Did you do it yourself or have someone fabricate it for you? How did you attach it into the glove?

I took pictures of the whole thumb loop process and ill post those later tonight

Great! I'll watch for them!

Nice job! You can take a black sharpie and touch up the grommets too - just use a steady hand so it doesn't get on to the leather.

Whoa! Who do you think you are, Earl Malone!?

I actually did already sharpie them using a sharpie pro, which has yellow rubber grips on the side of it. I use that to stencil tennis racquet strings and it is more durable than regular sharpie. It looks good with the solid black grommets.

For the thumb loop, i went to the local leather shop and asked them what they had for scrap leather, which is too small for them to use for any projects. They let me dig through it all and i came up with a few pieces to try. I cut out the old broken part of the thumb loop and traced it on the new piece for a template. I then cut it to the right length, I also sanded down the under side edge, where your thumb slides over it. That made it a little more flush to the lining on the glove. Then, I sewed the new thumb loop in the same place as the old. To sew it through the leather, i used vise grips to push the needle with a doubled over thick white thread. Then i used a leather punch for the lacing (palm lacing) holes to also hold it down, just like the original. Here are some pictures below.

Take a look above at the originally posted pictures to see the final result on the thumb loop.

well I leaned something useful today. Nice job! And thanks for the lesson. Say did you pick that glove up on Ebay recently?

Thanks for the tips and photos!

I've experimented with sewing leather on some of my own gloves, but haven't quite gotten to the point where I'm comfortable enough with the results to try it on gloves I'm restoring for other people- but I'm getting there!