Ask Adam Savage: How to Weather Leather
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Yo, if you use the steel wool approach you gotta make sure to tape off any magnetic buttons that your item may have. The little steel stubble that inevitably comes off the steel wool when you rub it will now stick to the outside of the tape instead of getting lodged into any nooks of the buttons where you can't get it out. After you're done you'll wanna put another piece of tape over the already covered button to seal in the metal before peeling the whole mess off.
All good advice given with limited details given in the query. Especially the curb-stomp. The best post-apo weathering is done by removing the metal furniture, tying it to a bicycle and dragging it through gravel/dirt roads for a few minutes. "Always creep up on it" is the best advice since Mary Schmich's "always wear sunscreen".
Above all when working with “leather”: BE SURE IT IS ACTUALLY LEATHER! There are some very convincing faux leathers now (example: the 300 dollar jacket that I just had to convince my friend not to buy because it wasn’t actually leather. “But it’s so soft! Like butter.” “No!”) so if possible look at the stitching and back of the “leather” if you see a almost knitted mesh on the back or woven into the “leather” it is not leather! And any scuffing of it will lead to blowout (a nasty almost snake like sloughing off of the outer finish) and you would be better served with dyes and paints. If it is actually leather then and only then proceed with the scuffing!
An actual leather product will take abuse after abuse and laugh at you. A fake leather product (that is supposed to be so much better for the environment and the animals (a different argument all together and one not appropriate for here)) will deteriorate in a fraction of the time and add to a dump after, there is almost no way to save it and no way to reuse it.
The take away: BE SURE IT IS ACTUAL LEATHER!
Lol I've seen so many people think they are wearing actual leather. Then I check the tag.🤣😂🤣😂
Yes, my mom does leather bags from skins she gets from hunted animals and its crazy to see the abuse they can take.
This is vital advice. So many time I see people buying faux leather to make a cosplay and I always say "if you care about your work and don't plan on trashing it after a couple of wears use quality material and that includes real leather."
Even if you hang a costume in a closet and don't touch it for years the next time you pull it out the faux leather will be dust and be unsalvageable.
I was actually at the plant that made the "fake leather" patch on the back of a lot of bluejeans. It is in deed paper. Treated to look like leather, and it lasts a long time, for paper. But real leather would probably outlast the actual pants themselves.
But hey, it's much cheaper than using actual leather.
I only buy saddle back leather goods now. They are actually made from real leather, and are built to last. I used to go through a leather wallet every 5 years or so. My current saddle back has lasted 11 years at this point, and looks better now than when i bought it. This is how you do sustainability. Make shit that lasts.
The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. If you would not do it to your own child, do not do it to any other vulnerable creature. Cruelty and violence are wrong.
I had a pair of Doc Martins years ago that were incredibly stiff and causing blisters in one spot in particular. I found a video on how they created their "worn in" boots. One of the steps involved folding the boot over a steel block and pound it with a big hammer. So I did the same and it worked perfectly.
The Indy jacket was made by Peter Bowright who owned Wested Leather until his death. I’m lucky enough to have two custom jackets that he made for me in my size from the original Raiders patterns. He also made the leather costume pieces for the Harry Potter franchise. Herbert Johnson made the hat. I am also lucky enough to own one of these.
They weren’t the original Raiders pattens. Just like Herbert Johnson doesn’t have the original blocks from the original trilogy anymore
If I may, you can artificially age leather without damaging or scuffing the surface by using a thick piece of felt or a felt pad and some beeswax. The friction of the felt combined with the beeswax will burnish a patina into the leather that is so realistic as to be nearly indistinguishable from natural wear and tear.
My (Dutch born) mother was a barmaid in the Australian outback, back in the 60s. She has a great old Akubra hat that was given to her by her boyfriend (a road train driver) and his friends. They felt it wasnt right to wear a 'new' Akubra that hadnt seen work so they ran it over with a road train for her.
Thats a heck of a genuine weathering method XD.
My Aussie brain: ... a road train? Oh a semi/truck! Ha
@@Xtafa no, a road train has at least 2 full trailers behind it, they can be up to 60 metres long and up to about 200 tons these days. Most are 3 trailers, theres up to 6.
Theyre the largest road legal vehicles in the world.
@@mycosys And absolutely terrifying when they overtake you, or go screaming past in the opposite direction! And this is from someone who worked in rail freight, standing by the tracks as a fully-laden 40 wagon grain train rumbled past, as you wait for the drivers to set up the train for tipping the following morning.
Yep, the large-small truck is a B-Double.
What an awesome story. ❤
as a recent beginner leathercrafter this is awesome. Ive been lightly sanding the leather with scotchpad and then coating the face with tokonole with some rough canvas. It burnishes the face nicely to give it that worn patina.
Also tried throwing it in a pillowcase and shaking it around with some random leatherworking tools like stitching irons etc to get some scratches all over it.
This is awesome, made my day!! Thank you, I'll send pics when it's done. :)
I like the kicking across the room method, it helps with daily life stress :)
Also, I don't work on this at all, but I've used normal sponges for different things and the green ones sometimes leave some green very small dots that are hard to take off. That's something you might consider before starting, so the tip of always starting with an unimportant part as experiment is always a good tip.
I love learning new stuff. Thanks Adam!
I have weathered one of my wallets using rubbing alcohol. I am a leather crafter so I was not too concerned about ruining it so I went for it, but that along with leather dye worked for me. My 5 year old daughter was recently carrying a notebook in one of my leather covers and dropped it in the driveway and then accidentally kicked it along the driveway, this really added some nice weathering to it. So the floor is definitely worth a try. A good product to treat any scratches you are not happy with is Smiths Leather Balm, this really works well at hiding scratches, it does not take them away entirely but they are definitely reduced by it.
There is a great video by Tod Cutler of him weathering his leather dagger scabbards that sure could be usefull.
This is invaluable insight in how to approach a weathering job like this. Thanks for your perspective
Completely agree with starting with a mechanical approach. Kick/tumble it a few times across a (smooth) cement floor. Press it unevenly against a brick wall and let it drag 1/4" or so. Drop it from 18" on its bottom corners on to concrete a couple of times. Spend some time rolling and twisting the shoulder strap while doing something else. The Scotchbrite/steel wool approach also does a good job breaking up the broad, flatter surfaces that might have too glossy of a look. Good luck!
My personal favorite method is to soak or wipe the leather with rubbing alcohol, and then crumple or roll it to create creases and patches of worn spots.
If I want to make a “dark aging” effect, like it’s super dirty or just adding more texture, I’ll then use some leather antiquing gel rather than the liquid dye. It’s super thick and creates a lovely texture effect.
Went searching for a way to distress leather safely and stumbled upon one of the single greatest craftsman of the generation explaining the process. Thanks algorithm.
Adam. I want to see you go visit an Antiques store or market. I feel like it would be amazing to see you explore old things and just look around. Also. Some of us live on the East coast, we have no idea what kind of stuff you have over there in the California area, so it would a beautiful thing to see what it's like for you compared to some of these eastern things.
If you have a dryer with an air dry/air fluff setting, fill the bag with a book so it’s stiffish and doesn’t ball up. I use an old cook book. And throw it in the dryer on the air setting. Let it tumble around. I found misting it lightly with water in spots you want more wear before throwing it in to be effective too.
I used gun powder on a bible cover I had custom made. Gave it a cool been through some things look. With patients and a plastic stirring stick I put the powder in pleasing shapes like he talked about the stains. Then you just light it off!
Had luck with some leathers leaving them in sunlight to naturally darken…may not work with commercial products as a lot of them have uv blockers, but when it works, you get a beautiful color shift.
For bags, I have always been a big fan throwing it across various surfaces, and brushing it up against brick and stone walls I pass. Mineral oil is great for adding patina.
After you kick it around the floor just spread a glob of "gel antique" from a leather store and it will work into the low spots to just make them darker and looks very natural!
Use a coarse sand paper and remove 70 to 80% of the finish off most edges. Skuff leather object being aged where natural wear spots would appear from normal wear, elbows, shoulders, seams especially, belly, waist, wrists, etc. Scrub entire object with acetone, then charcoal lighter, a wire brush around elbows, etc. Scrape, scratch, and scuff in selected spots. Cover ALL zipper ends with silicone and let dry thoroughly. If aging a jacket, STUFF sleeves and body WITH tightly folded material like sleeping bags, blankets, or other such objects. Find someone with a small on-site concrete mixer. Most small contractors have one, brick masons, etc. Make the owner think you are crazy by making arraignments to spin your object to be aged in it! Place some sharp edged small gravel, sand, dirt, and pieces of broken concrete blocks broken up with a hammer in pieces no larger than a walnut. Coarse sand is good.Throw in a knotted shop towel wet with acetone. Turn on the concrete mixer. The small amount of dried concrete left over in the mixer will also help. Stop the mixer often and check your progress until you get exactly what you want. For a dry old desert, look wash thoroughly with charcoal lighter fluid and rub on the color of dirt of your choice, and let dry. Shake off and enjoy. For a classy well loved old friend look. After doing g all the above. Wipe off well with charcoal starter fluid and follow up with a very thoroughly rubbed in coat of Neats Foot Oil, and then let it soak in the sun all day on a hot day turning it over so all sides thoroughly soak the oil up.
*the kicking about on the floor or down the steps would be a more organic technique along with dragging it across a gravel parking lot...a spray bottle filled with water between the layering also seems to be a good idea...also don't forget about the amazing textures of dirt and sand that can be found everywhere...to have such a project or opportunity along with OCD would produce amazing results*
Best way to weather leather coats or bags that always works for me, find a brick wall and start brushing the leather against it. It will give realistic scratches and worn patches. I found it out by accident and just went with it.
TIL i'm taller than Harrison Ford...... hey u gotta have something XD
Also, if you own leather, treat it right. Clean it with saddle soap, and after it is dry, mink oil rubbed in will make your leather last longer. After all a cow died to make that leather, so treat it right so that it lasts as long as it can. Respect the source of the material.
Leather lasts longer if you keep it oiled, so that it doesn't dry out and crack. There are leather goods that have lasted for decades, but only because they were cared for.
If I wanted a weathered leather case I would weather it using mechanical process to speed up the weathering of the material, however it is important to mention that leather age over time so eventually it is gonna look old.
So my advice is to keep using the case without to try to be extra careful and let time to do it's job.
Obenhauf's LP is a good way to start too. Bonus is it waterproofs the leather. I put some on a cheap pair of those almost yellow leather gloves and after applying the Obenhauf's and using the gloves for 10 minutes they look great.
Indiana Jones’ original jacket was made by Peter Botwright of Wested Leather in Kent, England.
Herbert Johnson of St James’ London was the maker of the original fedora.
When weathering props thing into the future. Design a process that pays attention to how a prop has been used. Things like where it will rub and creativity friction. Where it will be exposed to the elements. Where it’s exposed to the oils in your skin that touch the object. There are a lot of ways to create the effect. The most important thing is to give your prop it’s proper history. Dig deep. Do your research and above all think and pay attention to life.
I know this is not the question he asked, but if you have a leather, let’s say gun holster or bag in you’re looking to add oil to it I recommend using just simple Vaseline petroleum jelly put it on there let it sit for a day or two or three or four days and wipe off the excess, and now you have a lubricated leather that is waterproof and water resistantlove you MythBusters
Another way to darken it. Use a felt pad and rub it on a tea candle then on the leather. I use a Dremel with the round felt pad. Real fast and real precise.
With real leather that I don't mind distressing I use the technique of soaking an area with Rubbing Alcohol, then roughing it up with sandpaper. I'll scrub the item against bricks, strike it with files, anything to get it beat-up. I hit edges especially hard, and fold over corners etc. One tip: all of this makes the leather rough and dull HOWEVER keep in mind that areas which are often touched will have a buildup of oil from the hands and be a bit shiny. I rub beeswax over these high spots to simulate that.
lol "420 big holiday for us" 😂
My sister tired her leather bag to the bumper of her truck and drove down a gravel road 😂😂
Weather Leather is my favorite song from the neighbourhood
I had a cpu case that i tried to weather and "spilling" some water or alcohol on it and then running my rolling chair over it worked wonders
The moment I heard weather leather I thought was put a piece of wood the size of the laptop in the bag and take it for a walk and kick it along the sidewalk or road. It puts great age on leather.
Avoid using alcohol as it can dry out your leather... IF YOU DO, Make sure that you use neats foot oil or some other type of conditioner to rehydrate any moisture that the alcohol may have taken out of your leather during the aging process
I love when I search “how to do X” and Adam Savage comes up
I like the Adam Savage technique, the Pseudo Indiana version....throw it on the floor and jump on it. I use that same technique for wethering leather for my projects. Its a great starting point.
Adam... come on dude! Herbert Johnson made the Fedora. Leather Concessionaries AKA: Wested Leather made the Raiders Jacket. You know this!
I have boot covers made from polyurethane. Any idea if this will work on that?
I'm looking to make brand new baseballs look used for a craft project...any advice?
Herbert Johnson was the hatter. The Jackets were made by Wested Leather.
I knew a guy that use to weather leather bags by hanging them up on a clothes line outside and beating it for a good while with a wooden baseball bat. Good workout too.
I'm facing a challenge now, trying to "age" or "patina" a valuable leather item without actually distressing the surface. I've looked at what others have done, but I can't quite figure out the process used. I think it might be Liquitex acrylic paint, a lighter brown, to simulate wear.
The most important thing is,,,, Whether to weather leather ?
The best way to weather leather is over a long period of time...Years, if you can spare it by simply using it normally. It creates the most realistic effect.
Specifically for a laptop bag, or your EDC leather bag, I like some coffee stains, and the best way to replicate that is, well, coffee. Even in a well seasoned leather bag, it will leave it's mark. Am I addicted to caffeine? maybe. Do I like the look? Absolutely.
Adam, I have been such a huge fan of yours since MB. I have been cosplaying for a bit, usually eva foam. It has taken me 2 years to get my Mandalorian kit to the point that I like it and am working on joining the MMCC. Its the first time I used Sintra plastic. I would love to send you some pics and get your feedback.
I think my way of weathering anything of leather is tieing it to a car or truck and just run the thing on the street around town!
How much do you think the framing of this video was based purely on the fact that Adam wanted to show off his beautiful wooden hammer in the background not that I'm complaining lol.
The 3:53 technique should I remove the laptop from the bag?
I'm just gonna roll down a gravel pile a few times with my leather jacket and an old helmet.
A year later, and nobody mentioned asphalt, or concrete as free abrasives to wear an item.
Cool, now show me how to leather weather.
Is there an opposite word for occlusion?
Hey Adam! How was Kansas City Comicon?!
As a prop and costume guy I certainly get there being occasions to weather leather, and I have. But for an item you're using every day in real life? Why not let it weather naturally?
My opinion ah a leathercrafter, maybe bend fold and work it a bit and then just use the thing. in a year its gonna look awesome!
The best way to wear leather is to use it. I love leather because it is durable and it tells a story. Just my two cents.
Definitely just wear it in and depends on the tannerys and the different types cause you have pull up, Aline dyed, oil retans, straight chrome tans, drum dyed, and many many more I wouldn’t put any abrasive to any leather unless your doing edge work to it before it is fully assembled just my 2 cents from a leather worker
Also putting alcohol or anything like that may take pigment out but it will absolutely dry the leather so if you do so conditioning will be needed after no question
Skeletons got a cool hat
I love leather, I have multiple leather bags, leather boots, leather pen holder, leather notebook, leather jackets, including a very nice leather peacoat with removable shearling liner, and even leather coaster. I wear my leather jacket from fall to spring, my leather boots all year long, and carry my leather bags all over the world. But honestly, if you have to artificially distress your leather bag (or jacket, or any other leather good), you are just an imposter. Leather is durable, it is to be used. Just use your leather bag as you would normally do with any other bag. With time, it will age. Some leather ages faster, others slower, but they all will. Just use the damn thing, and it will age and develop patina (assuming that you have good leather, don't come here to talk about faux leather, or vegan leather (WTF is that?)).
I remember my dad used to take our new baseball gloves and run them over with his truck to soften and make them flexible. Then used some saddle soap to clean them up.
Just be careful to stay away from the seams on that bag, so as not to wear down the threads! :)
Water water water. Water weather's later in a beautiful and natural way. Disk the heck out of it and carry it around with rocks in it for a day
Harrison Ford is 6' 1" tall..
I wanna hear adams weed smoking stories
You can also do what I did and naturally distress your jacket by traversing the shoulder-scraping, narrow walkways of the ancient Incan ruins of Sacsayhuamán. 🤭
Red weather yellow leather.
I wish there was a way to UNweather leather.
I distressed a pair of boots for an event that I don't do anymore and I now COMPLETELY regret doing that.
Can you do a how to un weather leather?
Condition it and clean it and where the pigment is gone from it put it back in with dye
Anyone know what the heck that yellow-orange head is behind him ? Distracting !
Red leather, weather leather,
I would have just bought a used bag to begin with.
weatherleather weatherleather weatherleather weatherleather ....kinda fun to say, but the words have lost all meaning lol
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Leave it in the sun for some time and the leather will start changing colors
Make sure it is not chrome tan leather... It will not age like a veg tan leather will...
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3:24 Bill Cosby also swears by this technique
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This seems like a good general philosophy for weathering or any other new technique that is inherently destructive.
Programed Instrutions? New Age ?
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It would have been most helpful if you would have shown and demonstrated how to do it instead of just talking about it
So....we don't get to see any examples.
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Leather is the flesh of a sapient creature. There is no need or excuse for the atrocity that is industrialized animal exploitation.
I've been able to bleach _some_ leather with cream that contained peroxide.
But do NOT use chlorine: that will *kill* leather!
I had a leather jacket that was too stiff, and it was summer, so I didn't need for a while, so I just threw it on my garage floor and kicked around every now and then came out perfect
90% of all leathers on the market from bags to sports cars has a layer of paint that is clear coated to keep the color vibrant. While they are dyed as a base, the paint layers is what your degrading. Oiled leather like cowboy boots or saddles are tanned and oiled/waxed and put into service. Hope that helps.
"... all of those [types of leather] yield different kinds of weathering techniques" is a view into the mind. Seeing material as inspiration without being tied to an end result is a liberating practice.
Leather cleaner from a shoe shine kit can pull out some die in a nice slow and gentile way and shoe shine creams and oils can also add dark layers back in. Haven’t used it to weather but i was trying to even out water damage. That said it can be your choice how you want to move it. The moisture and oils can also soften if part of the problem is its a new and very rigid piece that you want to feel more broken in.
I want to know wether weathered leather weathers weather better than unweathered leather.
Ah the English language, I may have spelled it wrong, but you understood what I said.
I thought this would be a demo, but yeah can't really get into definitive instructions without understanding which type of leather it is. Personally, I prefer to patina through real use becuase it feels the most authentic.
Same. Also artificially weathering can weaken the leather itself if done incorrectly. If you need aged leather for a project you should always try to thrift old leather bags or coats and dissassemble them for material