As many of you know, I recently became the owner of two Cavendishes. The first to arrive
was the older, more used one, and I decided that if the other one was in better
nick, I would move into that and renovate the more used one.
The Cavendish was a little tired and ‘lived in’ looking.
More Rebus than Morse. It didn’t have any major dings but there were some marks
that looked like it had had a prolonged encounter with a spiral-bound notebook
at some point. There were a few marks and the leather was a bit grubby but
nothing fundamentally wrong.
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| A bit tired but fundamentally sound... |
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| With the flash, the spiral-binding marks are clearer |
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| The Cavendish opened out |
After reading about various renovations and looking online,
I found some “Lord Sheraton’s Leather Balsam” which had beeswax and almond oil
etc in it. That buffed it up very nicely, but didn’t do anything about the
marks from the spiral binding. I had earlier read
Vanjilla’s
post about using Nivea (yes, I wondered if she was barking mad too, but
she’s not!). I didn’t have quite the
same kind of Nivea but I did have some intensive moisturising hand-cream by
them. I thought I would give it a shot.
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| tools of the trade! The large white smear is the intensive treatment of the spiral-binding marks |
Well, it worked! The indentations are almost 100% gone –
just the two deepest are slightly visible.
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| shiny, buffed front cover |
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| what a difference! |
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| opened out again |
The filofax will always look second-hand and never ‘as new’ despite
Lord Sheraton and Nivea’s best efforts, but it looks a darn sight better than
it did!
