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Originally Posted by rockyroad
Uhmmm...what's Leather Luster?? The process could be the same, I just don't know what LL is...never heard of it. But I'm feeling awfully healthy today!
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Leather Luster involves lots of rubbing...and rubbing...and rubbing...
Oh. Where was I?
Anyway, it's this stuff that puts on an almost patent-like shine on shoes, but it always takes a lot of work. It comes in small box with two different bottles, a cleaning solution and the polish. No different than painting a house - the surface preparation is what takes all the time and work. You take the alcohol-based cleaner and rub off all the waxes and polishes, down to the bare, black leather. Then you apply the LL, let it dry, and apply second and third coats as appropriate. Some people have also found it necessary to do the drying in direct sunlight, or at a low temp. setting in the oven. The last pair I had done I actually sent to a person on the east coast who was associated with the product, and for $10 they did it for me. It was money well spent imo because it took a couple of hours of work to do it properly. I also found out that different brands of shoes took different amounts of time. For example, Converse shoes took longer because they had more layers of polish already on them, where Nike's did not have as much.