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M'Lady Esa, Greetings.<br>
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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.<br>
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Armor All makes several products for treating leather, and I have
used their liquid on arm guards and archery gloves:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.armorall.com/product-types/leather/">http://www.armorall.com/product-types/leather/</a> . 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Yours Aye,<br>
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<br>
Lord Mungo Napier, The Archer of Mallard Lodge<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/5/14 6:49 PM, Esa inghean
Donnchaidh wrote:<br>
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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. <br>
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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
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