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Thanks whinewine, I guess I'll just give it a try! I mean, what can it hurt, I've already ruined it.

Thanks for the offer Randy, but I'm in SW Kansas; that would be quite a drive! Whinewine, I used Extra Virgin Olive oil. The saddle is darker than it was, and the darkening botched up the way the dye accentuated the tooling *sigh* Is this a job a saddlemaker should handle or is it OK for me to try it? If I really make a mess of it, can a saddle maker fix it? Thanks in advance again!

Hi! I'm new to the boards. I'm not a leather worker; at this point I would probably be best described as a torturer of leather *LOL* I made a really stupid mistake, I'm hoping to find a way to fix it! I bought a beautiful western saddle. The tooling is incredible. It appeared to have been a display saddle that had never been ridden in. The good news is I got it for a very good price. The bad news is I ruined it. My goofball horse laid down in a bog with me, getting black tar mud on the saddle. I had to really soak that mud to get it off, which darkened the leather. I waited a couple of weeks to get it good and dry then tried oiling it to even the color. Now I have an ugly blotchy saddle. It appears maybe a sealer such as Saddle Lac may have been applied to it? I looked online and found out about deglazer, but the product description says it removes dye also? I don't want to remove the dye, just the Saddle lac so I can oil the saddle again and try to even-up the blotchyness. Is there any hope? Thanks in advance!