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Leather Seat Repair

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I'd like to hear from anyone who has used a product that successfully repaired minor scratches on leather upholstery such as the one shown here:

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I used Zymol "Leather Cleaner" followed by Griot's "Leather Care" (a combined cleaner and conditioner), and while that improved (lessened) the scratch, it's still there. Anyone know of any silver bullets - miracle products! - that handle minor leather damage such as this? Maybe Griot's "Leather Rejuvenator"? (I'm not stuck on Griot's products, but have had uniformly good results with them.)

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Reid - I mixed my own, following a recipe originally from Connolly's in London. You can find the recipe on page 121 of this conservation resource, under Connolly's Leather Food (the original recipe; Connolly's is no longer "Connolly's").


Worked wonders on the 1953 leather upholstery on my TD several years ago.
Hope this helps.
Tom M.
 
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Thanks Tom, but I was kinda hoping for an over-the-counter, off-the-shelf product. The recipe in that 340-page tome is all well and good, but the ingredients - anhydrous lanolin, beeswax, cedarwood oil, and hexane - seem to be in short supply around our house. Can't imagine how we let that happen.
 

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Reid, it’s time to up your inventory control system. Absolutely no excuse to run out of cedarwood oil. Just go outside and milk a cedar….Just that easy.
 
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