[Archers] Leather conditioning wax

[Garth Groff]

M'Lady Esa, Greetings.

I'm not familiar with this preparation, but it sounds like it would work 
just fine. In period such dressings might have been heated beeswax and 
tallow, which was used to seal arrows. Sounds like it would remain 
sticky and might attract bugs, doesn't it? I hope your preparation is a 
vast improvement.

Armor All makes several products for treating leather, and I have used 
their liquid on arm guards and archery gloves: 
http://www.armorall.com/product-types/leather/ . This stuff isn't 
period, but you do get that neat Viking guy for a spokesman. :~) I think 
this winter when things are slow, it will be time to treat all our 
archery leathers again.

Sad to say, your quiver will get banged up someday. Just like your 
arrows, it will have a finite life and is going to look scruffy someday 
(let's hope that's a long time coming). OTOH, scruffy was probably 
typical of such gear in period. That's no reason not to take good care 
of it in the meantime.

Yours Aye,


Lord Mungo Napier, The Archer of Mallard Lodge

On 9/5/14 6:49 PM, Esa inghean Donnchaidh wrote:
> Greetings Archery Braintrust!
>
> I purchased a new quiver at Pennsic. This one is real leather (my last 
> one was pleather), and I received a little jar of conditioning wax 
> when I bought it. The merchant said the conditioner was made from 
> beeswax and some natural oils, but seeing as he didn't make it, he 
> couldn't tell me the exact ingredients. It's very soft and absorbs 
> quickly and evenly into the leather.
>
> Any ideas what it's made of? Suggestions? So I can make more to 
> replace it when it's gone. What do you all use to condition your 
> leather in your archery kits?
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