How to Clean and Restore Your Old Leather Goods in Few Simple Steps!

1. Welcome to the class: Hi and welcome to this class where you learn how to restore in line year-old leather goods. In this class, I want to show you how easy it is to align with pig skin, any leather surface, and to clean and polish your project using some other soap and some wax that you can easily get in a convenience store or online. For this project. Other restoring this old Watch box I have and we'll also make some cushions that it used to have out of leather. To make the cushions. It is recommended you have previous knowledge on how to stitch together. However, the rest of the project that includes the restoration and polish the box, no previous knowledge is required. So if you haven't worked with leather previously, don't worry, you can easily follow the steps shown in this cluster, restore your goods. And we wish to learn how to stage and paint the edges of your other projects. You can take a look at my other classes where I teach how to create a project from scratch. The project for this class is for you to restore any leather goods you have following the methods learned, the lessons. So without any further ado, let's move on to the next lesson where I'll show you how to line editor there project you wish, using some high-quality pig skin. 2. Lining the inner parts: So let's begin with the restoration of our leather goods. For this project, I have this whole Watch box. There is actually a very decent conditions. The box includes three separators for the watches. They are firmly pressed to the wall so the box and are made out of PDF line with clear color pig skin. In any restoration or team project, I suggest you always Analyzer functionality and use of each part of your product. This way you can make establish constraints, so to speak. So for instance, by understanding how tight the PDF panels are with the walls, I know I shouldn't use any extra letter in there. So first I want to know where the new lining will go. And in this case, it should cover both sides of the panels, as well as a small portion of the top which will be exposed to the new leather. If you have a similar case, I measured your leather and using a ruler and accept the knife, got the rather to add desired length. Then check your measurements are correct and apply some leather glued to both surfaces where the leather lining will go. Carefully cover one side of the first panel with a new leather and move your way through until you've covered the other side of the panel. Use your pair of scissors to cut in excess of leather. Now for this case, I'll repeat the process on the other side of the panel under the same for the second PDF panel. Then I'll cut a small piece of leather, very small, just enough to cover the small section that is left uncovered with lactic skin fluid and cosine x's out of it. I'll go to you never bring the sides that are visible in this smaller piece. And when they look nicely finished, I can reassembly the panel structure. In the next lesson, I'll show you how to line the inner part of the litter box. So if you have a similar product, you can follow these methods for its restoration. 3. Lining the inside of the box: Lining the box is perhaps the simplest process of the restoration, since we only need to measure the right length and width of the inner areas and cut the lining of the desired length to glue them directly. So in this case, as you can see, I'm measuring the dimensions of both inner sides of the bugs and we'll proceed to cut the leather using my cutting ruler, exacto knife and other pen. To apply the glue onto the surface. You can use either your fingers or glue applicator. You can even use an old credit card if you wish. It works perfectly fine as well. However, it's important that you cover the entire surface of both inner parts of the box and the pig skin you use for your project. If you're using any other type of letter, this applies in the same way. One way you can apply the glue is covering a small section on the surfaces, glue them together and then continue applying more blue and joining them as you move forward. When you're done fixing that others together and make sure they are flat as possible using a plastic bone folder or credit card and your fingers to press firmly board parts together. Now if you happen to have any access of glue on the sides, you can easily rub it out with your fingers. Leather gloves are really simple to remove from many surfaces once they dry out a bit, the process of learning the box with the front section and then place a PDF panels in the box before moving forward to make the letter cushions. In the next lesson. 4. Making the leather squares: Now in this lesson, I'll show you how to make a small cushion of leather filled with foam. If you've been working with leather for some time now, you'll see how easy and fast you can make one of these cushions. For this part, I'll be using some black grunt and letters since I want the cushions to be more solid that only with the pig skin. If your project is similar and you wish to make a question first, measure and cut the square root of the size you want your cushion. In this case, I'll be cutting mine to fit in one of the sections of the watch box. Then use a rounded object like a coin to draw around the outline on the edge of the square. Coincide great tools for this. Actually, any cellular crafter, you might already be familiar using them once in a while. Around the edges with your sister and make the stitching holes using your diamond shape fills or pricking iron, poly mallet and poly block, as you can see. Will you sum from to fill the cushion? In this case, I'll only use to form pieces for each questions is the thickness of the foam is quite considerable. And as we did with the other squares, cotton around the edges of the questions. Now to create a form with a leather, leather glue normally makes sure the surfaces are covered in blue before joining them together. Got an extra piece of leather that is going to be the one that closes a question from behind and then proceed to glue it in the layers of form and leather as you'll see in the video. Then punch the stitching halls, stitch the cushion and currently excess of leather left on the sides. If you have another hammer, it can be very convenient to flatten the stitches of the cushion. Great. So for this project, I'll make three more cushions and leave two spaces blank for jewelry and other items in my letterbox. In the next lesson, we'll see how to clean the outer leather of the box. 5. Cleaning the box and final project: The final step is to clean the outer letter and give her box a nice polished failed. To do this, use your preferred brand of leather soap and give it a gentle pass with a sponge. Some soaps might come with their own sponges like the one I'm using. But you can use any soft sponge you have. Just make sure it's clean and hasn't been used with dyes or paints previously. When you're done, leave the rest for around ten minutes and then use some leather wax and I hold her shoe brush to apply the wax and make friction to the entire surface just as if you were to publish any issues. It's an exactly the same way. Make sure you polish off that other parts of your project. In this case, I'll polish the outer data as well as the small brown bars on the inside. We're done punishing them therapies, wants to give it a second polish to make it shine even more. And after a while you're done. So as you can see, we've given this project are very different. Look as how it was previously. So thank you so much for watching. I hope you have enjoyed taking this quick class on how to restore and give a different look to your leather projects. With this class, you are now able to restore your leather goods and line them with pig skin as you saw in the class. When you're finished, don't forget to upload your product in the project section. If you'd like to class and wish to see more and other projects, I invite you to follow me and I hope to see you in the next one. Have a great day.