When To Condition?

[Horsecccrazy975]

Hi everyone!

I've been reading a lot of posts on here and it seems like a lot of you like to condition or oil your leather piece sometime during the making process.

When and with what do you oil or condition your project?

Thanks in advance!

[dkbutcher]

I'm not really experienced enough to give you "good" advice but since nobody else seems to have chimed in yet I'll tell you what I do. As soon as I'm done cutting it out I give it a very light coat of neatsfoot oil on the grain side. I give it another light coating again on the grain side after I'm done tooling/dying it and it has dried out. If I'm using thicker leather I might oil it a bit more heavily and maybe a bit on the flesh side and then give it a good 12-24 hours for the oil to completely soak in as deep as possible. But normally I use 7-8 oz. or thinner leather so I just do the two light coats.

Dave

P.S. But I also like to finish it up with Carnauba creme when I'm done. That is almost always the final step in my normal process.

Edited June 21, 2014 by dkbutcher