leather shoes cracked help!

nix-j-c | 16:54 Sat 14th Feb 2009 | ChatterBank

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a few weeks ago my leather shoes i wear to cadets started cracking. its funny though because they're exactly the same but one has spidery crack and chunky cracks but the other only has chunky cracks.

i'm not sure if the chunky ones are cracks i think they might just be where the shoes have bent but the spidery cracks which are definatly cracks won't polish out. at cadets they said put loads of polish on butit doesnt work because it rubbs off. should i just keep putting more plish on or is they something i can do to get rid of them.

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dot.hawkes

have you got your shoes wet and dried them out near heat?

Ethel

Have you tried 'bulling' them?

http://www.142sqn.org.uk/bullshoes.html

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dot.hawkes

LOL I used to watch my ex hubby clean his RAF shoes and he was fanatical!
I think either the shoes have been wet and dried too quickly and no dubbin put on, or they are not leather.

nix-j-c

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i tried the heated version of bulling and it didn't work and i haven't got any brown polish so i can't do that at the moment but i mighthave to try it.

if i got them wet because i rain i didnt putthem by the radiator, i wiped them with a cloth then put them in a box so dust doesnt gather on them.

so is the wrinley thick cracks bends in the leather and the spidery ones actual cracks in the polish? can you get rid of both or just the polish cracks by bulling it.

theonlyone

Just go to the shoe shop that Dot works
at and she'll sort you out , there is a credit
crunch so you will get a discount ....

theonlyone

So what Cadets wear brown shoes ?
Army , Raf , Navy all wear black ..

dot.hawkes

Nix if you put them in a box and left them in there damp then they will have not dried properly , unless there were sillica gel sachets in there. What brand are they and where did u buy them?

dot.hawkes

I just read that you tried the heated version, you didn;t use a blow torch did you?

nix-j-c

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the brown polish you layer so you put a few layers of black then one brown then black to gve it a deeper colour.

i made sure i dried the shoes properly before putting them in my box.

i go to sea cadets.

i didnt use a blow torch i used a little bit of hot water from a ketle someone at cadets said they did that.

i think the cracks are startingto go i might have to put a bit more polish on before they go completely. (but its wierd how only 1 shoes cracked)

out of everyone there, my shoes are bend kinda cracked the most which is odd.

nix-j-c

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now that they have been bulled for a while and i look at thm polished, the lil cracks are still there.

why are they only on one shoe its iwerd andis there any other way of getting them out?

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