The Official New Boots Thread

[woodworkingboy]

Spit shines were popular with some of the folks with ancestry south of the border, when i was a youngster. They really worked them, the tips of their shoes could shine like a mirror. Try and do that, make Butch a happy fellow!

 

[Tucker943]

When I was a Marine, I had the art of spit shining mastered. Mastered I tell you. Lots of booze, music, and saliva. I could make mirrors with leather........

 

[MasterBlaster]

Spit shining is an art!

 

[flushcut]

I don't know what that is, but you'll need some standard ole black shoe polish.

It's like mink oil boss.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I've never been down with the mink oil stuff. Nothing beats good 'ole shoe polish. If I want to make them water resistant, I'll use Vaseline.

 

[Burnham]

On leather? Well, duh, that's what you said . Not for me.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yep, on leather. Slap it on, then wipe it off. I like to apply it to a warmed boot.

 

[Burnham]

Better products than a petroleum based one for that, Butch. Wax based will preserve the leather better, I think. Applied the same way, too.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I use beeswax, too. It just depends on what I have at the time.

 

[Burnham]

Much better choice for longest life of the leather, glues, and stitches.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Having used both Mink oil and SnoSeal, which I think the latter being a wax based product, the Snoseal protection seems to last better.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Agreed.

 

[Burnham]

Yup.

 

[flushcut]

I know a guy who use to use crisco on his work boots.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Same thing. You can use motor oil, in a pinch.

 

[flushcut]

I think I will stick to mink oil but I'll have a beer with ya.

 

[MasterBlaster]

All you ever need!

 

[Burnham]

Try it out here in northwestern Oregon...good luck with that

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm just a maroon.

 

[Burnham]

A Louisiana townie maroon, is all. Your perspective can be just a tad narrow at times, Butch .

 

[CurSedVoyce]

product of your enviroment.....

 

[MasterBlaster]

There you go.

I'm narrow.

 

[Burnham]

I didn't say that, brother.

 

[MasterBlaster]

No, I did.

You said a "tad."