What a BULLSHIT STORY about the leather 😂 But a fairy tales for children's 😊 The Russians used mineral solts from the Ural mountains... It closed the pores in the leather... Creating leather like this it is mega toxic but the is much more better then the leather of today...
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got a pair of Houston oil black AR BF boots and they are beautiful and now I don’t want to wear them for what I intended them for lol instead I’m going to wear them casually lol
@RoseAnvil2 Russian Leather or as it is known here Yuft Leather (Juchtenleder) is actually used for boots in the alpine region (Germany/Austria/Switzerland). Mountain boots or forestry boots are made out of it, in thicknesses up to 5mm. It’s a very tough, but supple leather which makes it ideal for boots. Especially when used as roughout. For anyone interested, some companies that use it are Pfanner, Schuh Bertl Munich, Trabert, Steinkogler and Remisberg. AFAIK most of the leather comes from a company in Switzerland named „Galusser“
Bakers Tannery in Devon, England (not far from Plymouth Sound), make Russian leather from cow hides. I think it was they who originally carried out the research into the tanning liquor.
Part of maintenance is of course conditioning the leather to replenish the lost oils and fats. That means for Russia leather that one ought to replenish the birch tar oil, too. I think Burgol once used to offer a conditioner (Juchtenfett) before the split with Siegol. But no need to worry, you can simply mix a tiny amount of pure birch tar oil into your conditioning oil of choice when conditioning the leather. Better use a pure conditioning oil/grease rather than a finished product or experiment how it acts with the added birch tar oil before applying it to the leather.
Congrats Weston! Going from so little product sales in February that you had to have a big “dead feb” sale to being able to hire more people, start more projects, and spent hundreds of dollars on a shell cordovan experiment! That’s quite the success story right there!!! Listening to you in every video during February talk about how bad things are for Rose Anvil during February had up ass worried. Whew!
Russian reindeer leather - lost russian leather was used in famous bespoke shoemakers. Recently Crockett and Jones(james bond shoes brand) used replica russian calf from J&FJ Baker tannery.
@RoseAnvil2, Hey Weston I know when Kirby Allison was getting his cowboy boots made at Texas Traditions by Lee Miller I think Lee had 2 of the original hides that he showed during the tour.
Yo, you should totally do the idea of mismatched boots, it'd be the most sound way to compare the two leathers, and lets be fully real.. If not you, then who? No one else would ever put in the time to do that, let alone with your level of dedication. Totally believe you could pull it off!
Yes, they used copious amounts of birch oil/tar. It's quite water resistant. The outside hides didn't survive the ocean, even covered with that particular rich mud and tightly wrapped with protective cloth. The inner hides are what were used.
Do not make one boot from one and the other from Horween. Keep the pair true to the material. Leather purist thinking. You'll be able to figure out the wear from just one pair. I despise the texture on the new shell. Ugghh. Give me shiny smooth Horween Cordovan any day. Any tannery can emboss leather. Not all of them can finish it like Horween.
200 year old recipe found in ship wreck.. no, no recipe. There is no recipe on the ship wreck, so this leather would not be the same as or anywhere near the same leather from 1786 wreck of the Metta Catharina just because of two ingredients. I'm confused by the tile suggestion in the heading of this video... Was any of the leather you bought originally from 1786 Catherina?
there is a boot producer in Northern England, called Leap Dog Boots, who uses birch tar in the process of making their boots (as an extra, if you pay some more money). They claim it makes them more waterproof, but i honestly don't know if it's any better than dubbin. anyway, if you are looking for ideas about new boots to cut, maybe you could cut theirs (or any others) boots made with the "veldtshoen" construction? they claim it's the most waterproof construction you can have in leather boots
Seems like a bit of a waste to make an odd pair with one being Horween. Get 2 pair made and wear them on a schedule lol. At least you'll have an actual pair made from that leather then. Your money though ;).
Agreed. Huge fan of what you do and the purpose of a mismatched pair of boots. However an heirloom quality pair of boots could and should outlast a footnote of this channel. A hundred years from now they'll shake their head -- "Too bad they don't match because they're really nice." Seems like a waste of good material and workmanship. Isn't that what Rose Anvil is all about?
Man, a pair of Brandle in this is just the thing of dreams. Guess the price tag would be pretty high though but hey, maybe yours won't fit and you have to do a giveaway?
Nooooo! Thai leather is too beautiful. You would be mocking it by making the boots from two different leathers. It deserves to be made into a proper pair.
This is a publicity stunt. This has nothing to do with Russian leather or the recipe. a way to sell a second-rate correction hides for super expensive.
