What is Genuine Leather? - 5 Tips to Avoid Buying BAD GENUINE LEATHER 

Literally how would you think that Makes no sense My dainese D1 out boots are "genuine Italian leather" but the things are fucking 70% plastic

Could you plz hlp me to tell which quality leather is best for wallet, belt, and leather craft. Must mansion leather thickness plz. Your videos r really hlpfull for me.

@@figdot - full-grain bovine leather is very high quality.

Lol now you know why marketing makes a shit ton of money

You gotta ask if it's 100% leather, not if it's a 100% genuine leather . Fully leather question might receive a weasle answer . Honey can also be blended and still sold say as genuine Manuka honey when the Manuka honey portion is say 20% . Actually there's a honey coincidentally called leatherwood honey which these days is always blended and sold as genuine leatherwood. Very expensive.

Thanks David 🙂

And then corona virus shut down small business and thousands of people killed themselves while the leftists say things like we need to increase wages for Walmart employees and extend the lock down

@@ChaosBW im in San Francisco, socialist leftwing hotspot, and I never had to close my business at all, not for a single day.

zing! solid implementation of the video content and the nickleback joke

Dang, that’s a good one

Haha shit!

That was a Touuuuu'Che moment, haha.

I must add this also, Duuuhhhh.

You might even say they got toasted 😹

Likespike @1:07 ?

ha ha i learned to new words from this comment thread, "Likespike" and "Toasted" both will immediately be shoehorned into my vocab

Ya that is super common especially with big companies

What are Italian Nappa Leathers?

@@marchveris Napa means nothing. It's a trade name that gets applied to all sorts of thin glove or other soft flexible leathers

@@TL-angzarr Another name for genuine leather I see.

marchveris a quick google search says it’s a full grain leather

word-smithing at it's finest

@@RoseAnvil I applaud your sentiments about supporting local artisans and makers simply on the basis of honesty and transparency. Big companies with accountants and shareholders to return value for easily cut corners, reducing an item down to a profitable level and not up to a standard. I wear both DMs and Solovairs, as does my wife. DM now being a corporate entity, passed around and sold like a money generating machine, cannot be expected to produce products at the standard they were in the 80s/70s. It just cannot work in their corporate state. Their quality is everything I expected it to be.

That's funny. I have never really thought of that.

That one still trips me up from time to time too

top grain leather is the top but it’s sanded off to illuminate all the little imperfections

the #toastygang stamp of approval

Thank you, it has been really fun! having all the support makes it worth it

i was about to point this out myself

The leather that Red Wing produces, which is good quality full-grain leather, is also stamped "genuine leather." But Red Wing is very transparent about what the leather is. If a company doesn't tell you anything about the leather, other than to say that it is leather, that's when you need to be wary.

I always read it as "Genuine Shell Cordovan" but either way my point was that not everything that says "genuine" on it is low quality.

The word "genuine" is referring to "shell cordovan" they just made the brand name the center focal point because brand recognition. That's why "genuine" and "shell cordovan" are the same size.

@@whitemakesright2177 And it shows red wings are tough as hell. Beat them senseless for years no cracks tears nothing.

Wow. Thanks so much for the support! 🙂

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Top level jerk.

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Thank you! That means a lot

Wow thanks for the support Nia Castro! I am looking forward to all of that.

I've been really feeling the need to work on the bike, so there will probably be a video coming out soon especially with spring on it's way

I appreciate the support. If you have any requests, let me know.

Glad to be of help. 🙂

Yeah, it can be misleading and confusing.

Saying "Genuine" really is something to be careful about for sure.

@@RoseAnvil Exactly. Thanks for this video.

@@RoseAnvil Oh, by the way, I live about an hour's drive from where Nickelback got started... no joke.

I've been thinking about tackling that topic but i really have to have my ducks in a row to make sure i don't miss anything

tell your vegan friends they are also commiting a crime by eating baby spinach and lettuce and baby potatoes etc by not letting them grow so they should try and survive on air,water and soil

im a leather connoisseur and a vegan. the main thing that has the biggest impact on the environment and animals is eating animals daily or at all. i believe that having small but meaningful leather items (shoes, belts, wallets, etc..) isn’t exactly ethical but serves a purpose because of its superior durability and patina over time. Leather is also biodegradable unlike synthetic leather. faux leather is horrible for the environment and in turn, the animals suffer from the pollution. you dont have to be extreme as a vegan, just be ethical and mindful of the amount of animals you kill to sustain yourself.

If you accept their logic of not eating meat then I do not see a problem in their logic of not using leather from the meat industry.

Alexandru cel Bun please tell your vegan friends that I’ve just killed a cow because it was eating their food. They’re welcome! 😜

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GeneSun 100%

@GeneSun Lmao

Is it better for dead horses to just rot away? No horses are slaughtered just for the purpose of making shell cordovan. It is a byproduct, so that when you have to put a horse down, it's not a total waste. Same thing with eating the horse meat. Every year, horses have to be killed. It's just a fact of life, and it's never going to change. Making cordovan from the horse's shell, and horsehide leather from the rest of the hide, goes a little way towards making the horse's death not be in vain.

@GeneSun I like steak too. I guess for me the bond is different with horses.

@@whitemakesright2177 Where do allthe slaughtered horses hides go? I know when horses are put down that sometimes times they are composted or rendered.

that is a good comparison, i wish i would have thought of that for the video

@@RoseAnvil ... you certainly may use that; with all my best wishes on your continued growth and success in this channel. I truly do enjoy your video presentations and your demeanor, and your beautiful cat.

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this has remained one of my favorites

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Glad to be of help. Thanks for the support.

Haha 😂 Glad I could do both of those for you.

I am hoping to review all the Red Wing Boots eventually.

@@RoseAnvil Yeah I heard you say you might do so eventually if people were interested in one video. I'm just showing my interest.

Carhart makes legit leather belts at a reasonable price. At least Im pretty sure its full grain or the best composite ever. Im not cutting my daily belt open to find out. But its durable enough Ive worn the plating off the buckle lol.