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Always suffered with crappy $30 Walmart footwear for most of my adult life due to being married and raising kids for 20+ years. When I got divorced in 2012, I finally got back on my feet about a year later and decided to spend some money on decent boots. No "Redhead from Hell" to protest me spending $100+ on decent boots. So I bought some all leather Hi-Tec hiking boots ( Yeah, still too cheap to spend $300+ on Elsolo or Danners...)
So, I wanted to keep my new "fancy" boots looking good and performing well. In the past, I had used Sno-Seal with decent results to waterproof boots. But, I wanted something better.
I don't recall how I found this stuff, but I did, and it is really great stuff.
Invented by a Wildland Fire Fighter from a little town in the Idaho mountains, it is a bit spendy at $12 a 4oz can, but mine has lasted a few years and keeps my boots looking new and waterproof.
I recently used it on a new holster to get it to stretch and it worked perfectly. It does smell like honey, due to the beeswax, but I kind of like it and no bears have attacked me while hiking, so far.
Anybody else use this stuff?
If not, what have you found that works to preserve and waterproof leather?
So, I wanted to keep my new "fancy" boots looking good and performing well. In the past, I had used Sno-Seal with decent results to waterproof boots. But, I wanted something better.
I don't recall how I found this stuff, but I did, and it is really great stuff.
Invented by a Wildland Fire Fighter from a little town in the Idaho mountains, it is a bit spendy at $12 a 4oz can, but mine has lasted a few years and keeps my boots looking new and waterproof.
I recently used it on a new holster to get it to stretch and it worked perfectly. It does smell like honey, due to the beeswax, but I kind of like it and no bears have attacked me while hiking, so far.
Anybody else use this stuff?
If not, what have you found that works to preserve and waterproof leather?