jlee562
I'll Lock Up
- Messages
- 5,103
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Are there pictures of this mess you're trying to clean? Ive never heard of "dead skin" accumulating so much.
Never seen anything like that either.Are there pictures of this mess you're trying to clean? Ive never heard of "dead skin" accumulating so much.
Perhaps he was a lawyer.
Ed Gein made the sweat.I was thinking maybe it was a Hannibal sweat band.
I with jlee....pics of what you call dead skin may help.Are there pictures of this mess you're trying to clean? Ive never heard of "dead skin" accumulating so much.
Back on this thread, has anyone had any luck preventing the sudden sweat disintegration syndrome?
I lost another sweatband from a 40s 7X that just went from looking perfect and soft to solid and broking apart in places the first time I actually sweat in it. I had treated it generously with Pecard’s leather dressing.
Has anyone had better luck with another product? I have been reading leather conditioner websites and they all claim to prevent dry rot. Maybe someone knows a leather care forum that might have answers? I will keep searching myself.
...I found this leather care forum and wrote this post, if they answer I’ll post the info!
https://www.leathercleaningrestorat...-Sweatbands-on-Vintage-Hats&p=23013#post23013
Sweatbands are much thinner pieces of leather than one would normally preserve with Pecards or other traditional dressings for saddles, baseball gloves, leather jackets, etc. In my experience, when they have dried out, that is the end. Certain leather sweatbands (early 20th century The Fray, soft and supple leather sweatbands in lightweight hats from the early-mid 1940s) seem to never die. Others (some 1940-1950 high end Stetson hats) seem perfect but are destroyed by a good summer sweat or snap at the first turn of a hat jack screw.
I know that many feel they have success massaging emolients into vintage hat sweatbands. I have never found this to do much of anything, though sometimes it will cause an old leather sweat to dissolve like a tissue dipped in water.
Just my .02
Thanks Alan! Interesting view on high end 40-50s Stetson sweats, those are the models that have given me the most heartache.
I have never found this to do much of anything, though sometimes it will cause an old leather sweat to dissolve like a tissue dipped in water.