Cleaning Up a Tooled Leather Credenza

[gemering]

Anyone here have experience with cleaning up an "as found" Credenza with tooled leather front?
I'm wondering if the one pictured is a "diamond in the rough."
The wood cabinet does not look bad.

All comments greatly appreciated and taken under advisement.

Gene

[gemering]

Sorry for the super small pictures.
Not sure why they attached the way that they did.
I will try to fix them.

Gene

[52089]

This was posted recently:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... r+credenza

[gemering]

Thanks!
Missed that post in the Tips section.

Gene

[gemering]

Based on the thread above that 52809 posted, looks like the one I pictured would clean up well.

Gene

[Oceangoer1]

Based on the thread above that 52809 posted, looks like the one I pictured would clean up well.

Gene

Absolutely! The decorations on the leather are covered in shellac, which darkens with age and dirt. Its just like cleaning a shellac finish on a cabinet, and I use GOOP or Gojo to do it. Takes a few applications, and you might have to work it in with a brush, but most of the dirt should come up. When wiping the dirty GOOP off, be very gentle at first to make sure you don't accidentally scrub down to the paint.