When casing can leather conditioner preservative be used / added when tooling / stamping?

[ContactCement]

When casing will adding leather conditioner preservative improve tooling and stamping?  Does anyone know what ingredients are in this ? Is there a recipe for a homemade version of this ? easy carve concentrate.  The local store is many miles away and shipping liquid don't seem like a good idea.

Edited December 18, 2017 by ContactCement

[cord1974]

Somewhere on here is a recipe for a casing solution.

I forget who posted it but remember it contains Lexol and something else.

I experimented with it and did see an improvement in the burnishing effect the tooling took one.

[YinTx]

In a previous topic, I posted this:

There are a lot of casing solution recipes on this website.  Here are the few that I gleaned:

Bruce Johnson’s casing solution recipe:
1.5 cups water, .5 cups Lexol conditioner, 1-2 tablespoons baby shampoo, 1 tablespoon listerine (brown).  

Ed the BearMan’s recipe:
4 Tablespoons of Lexol, 3 Tablespoons of Glycerin, 2 Tablespoons of Brown Listerine, about 40 drops of Dawn, or Joy , Mixed in 7 cups of warm Distilled water

HidePounder’s recipe:
1 teaspoon of (Joy) soap and
1/2 teaspoon of glycerin to
2 quarts of water.
 

There are others out and about the wide world of internet.  I sort of cobbled my own off of a combination of the above, using glycerin, baby shampoo, Lexol, Listerine, and water.  The water in the above recipes ranged from 1.5 cups to 2 quarts.  Mine was the 1.5 cup version, I will add more water to reduce the ratio of conditioners to water, I think it may help.

As you can see, they all have some type of conditioner already in them, so any additional neatsfoot oil after the fact I think becomes overkill.  They do really facilitate carving and tooling tho.

 

YinTx

[cord1974]

Thanks Yin.

It was Bruce's recipe I used but couldn't remember what it entailed.

I mixed up a quart bottle a year and a half ago and I'm still on the same bottle..

[YinTx]

I must be doing something wrong... I made up a mixture totaling about 3 cups, and it is already gone, working on my second batch that was about a quart.  And I've only been doing this a few months...am I using too much?

YinTx

[bikermutt07]

8 hours ago, YinTx said:

I must be doing something wrong... I made up a mixture totaling about 3 cups, and it is already gone, working on my second batch that was about a quart.  And I've only been doing this a few months...am I using too much?

YinTx

I'm thinking that pile of basketweave panels in the junk bin has something to do with this......haha

[YinTx]

Oh.  Yeah...maybe...

YinTx

[Sheilajeanne]

Where can I find glycerin? 

I think I need to start using casing solution. The leather gets really hard and dry sometimes when I case with just water! And I find that treating it with neatsfoot oil darkens it too much for my liking.

[garypl]

Should be able to buy glycerin at any drugstore.

[Sheilajeanne]

Thank you!

I wonder what purpose the soap/shampoo serves. Anyone know? I know glycerin is commonly added to hand lotion and lip chap sticks, so that's easy to understand why you'd want to put it on leather. But soap emulsifies oils and grease, so not sure what purpose it would serve.

Edited December 22, 2017 by Sheilajeanne