Redmoon wallet care: 2 oil or not 2 oil?

[nettiemoore]

5 months. No oil. No cleaning. No sun tan. The key chain is the original color.

cool. i like that keychain, where did you get it?

[No -]

It came with a jacket I ordered from 2nd. I also got a RM phone strap with my wallet

[mikesduc]

5 months. No oil. No cleaning. No sun tan. The key chain is the original color.

Are you wearing raw denim? How is there no indigo on that wallet?

[denimdestroyedmylife]

after using obenaufs on a belt, i ran my fingers through my hair and it looked great

seriously best hair product ever

[poly800rock]

after using obenaufs on a belt, i ran my fingers through my hair and it looked great

seriously best hair product ever

the obenauf's bio says the guy uses the LP as chapstick

[eldave04]

This one? You could use an entire gallon of Obenauf's and it wouldn't help with that. Obenauf's is about keeping your leather alive.

DD, what do you think would help / what would have helped to start with? Any suggestions are much appreciated.

[No -]

Are you wearing raw denim? How is there no indigo on that wallet?

I'm switching between a pair of S5KBKs and XX003s.. few traces of indigo from the PBJs on the edges. Not much

[Dick Danger]

DD, what do you think would help / what would have helped to start with? Any suggestions are much appreciated.

I really don't know, short of never putting it in your pocket I can't think of anything that would keep it from absorbing indigo. It might help to have a seamstress sew a lining in your pockets.

[Paulo]

Well so i dont start a new thread ill bump. I got a red moon wallet in white. Ive used it a couple days and its picking up some indigo... i dont really mind it much so far. I just have no idea how it will turn out later on... Should i apply anything to it? So the paint doesnt crack or something?

[Dick Danger]

Can you post a couple of pics? Is it painted or dyed? I have an old painted guitar strap that never did get used, but the paint still cracked. The leather is still intact but the paint does not look so good. I'd probably use an oil type product in a small spot and see what happens.

[Paulo]

This is it:

[sybaritical]

I've been thinking about picking up a white Redmoon.

Please post some pics.

Edit: that was quick ...

How much and where from?

[Paulo]

Yes im a boy!!! :-) I also have a girlfriend who doesnt like the wallet lol

[Dick Danger]

Use a small amount of oil in the hidden area between the coin pocket and inner pocket and see if it changes the color. If the oil is absorbed without changing the color too much, I'd just use that.

[Dick Danger]

Yes im a boy!!!

dood, a few beers, a wig, a dark room, it doesn't matter all that much......

[Paulo]

I've been thinking about picking up a white Redmoon.

Please post some pics.

Edit: that was quick ...

How much and where from?

I managed to get it in a red moon sale. It was 11700 yen in total i think. (About £50 after exchange rates/$100)

The thing is my friends girlfriend got it for me in Japan so i dint pay any proxy fees and he went there to see her and brought it back with him so no post fees either.

Theres a few new white ones that looks real nice but they are all about 19000+ yen i think. Look out for the Pink Planet collection stuff theres a few nice white ones there.

(mine is almost the same as the pink planet stuff...)

http://www.redmoon.co.jp/brand/pinkplanet/wallet/ppc-08c/

But my model number is PCC-08B and white the inside of the wallet is stamped Pink Planet the buckle is totaly different and not shinny silver like that one.

Looking at the site theres a new white snow collection as well:

http://www.redmoon.co.jp/event/2007xmas/index.html

[kert]

New

2 months

when i first got it i tanned it for about 6 hours. then, i used obenauf's oil with the applicator brush twice. i let it dry for 24 hours after each application. after about a months wear i used the obenauf's jaguar leather cleaner to try to get out the indigo stains. it worked a little bit, but didn't get it all out. i decided to add some pecards dressing on it to help protect it from the indigo and to moisturize it. i think no matter what you do your going to get indigo stains, unless you get your back pocket lined or just don't wear raw deniim. i personally don't mind the indigo stains. i think it adds character.

[sybaritical]

I managed to get it in a red moon sale. It was 11700 yen in total i think. (About £50 after exchange rates/$100)

The thing is my friends girlfriend got it for me in Japan so i dint pay any proxy fees and he went there to see her and brought it back with him so no post fees either.

Theres a few new white ones that looks real nice but they are all about 19000+ yen i think. Look out for the Pink Planet collection stuff theres a few nice white ones there.

(mine is almost the same as the pink planet stuff...)

http://www.redmoon.co.jp/brand/pinkplanet/wallet/ppc-08c/

But my model number is PCC-08B and white the inside of the wallet is stamped Pink Planet the buckle is totaly different and not shinny silver like that one.

Looking at the site theres a new white snow collection as well:

http://www.redmoon.co.jp/event/2007xmas/index.html

Yeah I've seen them ... I'm personally not feeling the pink planet ranges at all, and the snow white is a weird beige IMO.

Grrrrrr.

[rome1]

RM's seem to go dark brown rather fast, esp after oiling.

That white wallet would get you some strange looks in my hood.

[Paulo]

Yeah I've seen them ... I'm personally not feeling the pink planet ranges at all, and the snow white is a weird beige IMO.

Grrrrrr.

What white ones were you thinking about?

Apart from some long wallets (that seem to be verrry expensive) there doesnt seem to be any full white ones without any funky detailing on the front.

[Westbrook]

figured I'd drop an update on my RM. Must be about 14 or 16 months now. No oils or treatments of any kind.

[Paulo]

the white ones are so cute!

can't wait to see these wear in. I wouldn't know how you would oil these, do you plan to?

Nope my plan is just to wear it as it came but i just got scared there would be some care tips im missing as everything is in japanese on the redmoon site/with the papers i got.

Ill post more pictures in the coming weeks/months but all ill wear with it is raw denim so i expect it to go abit blue. (Though wiping it off with a damp cloth seems to work wonders to get rid of it.)

[LeatherSeatBelt]

so i just got thte take 5 redmoons i dunno what to do with it. i wanna tan to get a hazy brown color and then oil after wards because im not a fan of indigo staining. can anyone tell me the procedures?