I've been away from blogging for a while and intend to get back into it.
This is my first posts in a long time. Let me know if you have specific areas of interest which you would like to see me comment on via this blog.
I've been active posting YouTube videos and this post describes each of those videos and has a link to them. Let me know what you think. If there is a specific topic for a YouTube video you'd like to see me produce, let me know.
This is my first posts in a long time. Let me know if you have specific areas of interest which you would like to see me comment on via this blog.
I've been active posting YouTube videos and this post describes each of those videos and has a link to them. Let me know what you think. If there is a specific topic for a YouTube video you'd like to see me produce, let me know.
Advanced Leather
Solutions YouTube Video Library
This is the current list of videos available produced by
Advanced Leather Solutions on YouTube.
Our YouTube video production is an ongoing effort. They are either task specific (i.e. how to
accomplish a specific leather repair task) or are informative about
leather. We have grouped them into
categories to make it a bit easier for you to find a video you’d like to
view. If you want us to produce a
specific video regarding leather care and maintenance, let us know. We’d love to hear from you.
About Leather
Title: Leather Types Explained
Content Description:
Different types of upholstery leather found on furniture and automotive are
explained between unfinished, aniline dyed leather and finished, protected or
pigmented leather. Also explains the
purpose of base and print coloring technique and protective clear coat.
Title: Material that is NOT a
candidate for Leather Restoration
Content Description: Kevin Gillan shows two examples of
material that he recommends not to proceed with a restoration project as in
both cases the new color coating will fail.
Kevin shows why.
Title: New Leather Furniture Care Tips
Content Description: Offers advice for the care and
maintenance of new leather furniture.
Also discusses a strategy for keeping cats off leather furniture.
Title: Do You Have Finished or Unfinished Leather
Furniture
Content Description: Helps determine the type of leather you
have --- finished or unfinished.
Title: San Francisco Cable Car Straps Production
Content Description: Shows how Advanced Leather Solutions
manufactures the leather hanging straps used on the San Francisco Cable Cars
for the standing passengers.
Title: Effect of body oils on fine leather
Content Description: This brief video shows the eventual
effect of body oils on a leather headrest.
This leather is only 5 years old.
The leather on the headrest had to be replaced.
Leather Restoration
Title: Anatomy of Leather Furniture
Restoration from Aniline to Protected
Content Description:
Documents the restoration of leather
furniture from faded, and stained aniline or unfinished to a fully finished
state, explaining the step-by-step process.
The result retains the feel and look of the original unfinished leather
yet now has a protective coating that is fade and stain resistant.
Title: DIY Leather Solutions Kit Contents
Content Description: Produced by Advanced Leather Solutions of
Hayward, CA, here you will see the contents of a typical, fully consumer based
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) kit for restoring worn, faded and stained leather
furniture. Thousands of kits have been
sold to date. You too can be successful
at restoring your own leather with this system.
Title: Leather Jacket Restoration
Content Description:
Leather jacket, originally black faded
over time. This jacket is restored to original condition with the
products and processes of Advanced Leather Solutions. You'll see the procedure of priming the
leather, coloring the leather and then top coating where we retained the soft
feel of the fine leather.
Title: Creating a European Wipe on Mottled Color
Affect on Leather
Content Description: his Advanced Leather Solution video shows
the procedure for creating a hand wipe European style affect on leather. It shows how to re-create that affect that
was worn away on leather furniture.
This is a system that Do It Yourself clients can use on their old, worn
and stained leather furniture to bring it back to like-new condition.
Title: Abby's Leather Lesson - 2011
Content Description: 9 year old Abby demonstrates how to
create a mottling color affect on leather using Advanced Leather Solutions Do
It Yourself (DIY) leather color restoration process. This mottling effect creates a more organic
or natural look to upholstery leather.
Title: Before and After Slide Presentation of DIY Leather
Solutions
Content Description: This slide presentation was produced by a
client of Advanced Leather Solutions using the DIY Leather Solutions Coffee
Bean base coloring system. It includes
body oil extraction, priming and three coats of Coffee Bean base.
Title: How to Remove Color from Tacks,
After Leather Color Project
Content Description: When re-coloring some leather furniture,
the decorative tacks can be a problem.
The best technique is to ignore them (color over them) and then
subsequently remove the color from the tacks.
This video shows you how.
Title: Back in Black Leather Coloring System
Content Description: Demonstrates how to use Advanced Leather
Solution's Back in Black color system to restore color to leather.
Title: Mottling affect with a screen
Content Description:
How to create a mottling affect with a
screen to shoot print color through on to the target leather.
Title: Body Oil Extraction from Leather Procedure
Content Description: Shows the technique of oil extraction
from an unfinished leather as the initial step to full color restoration of a
recliner.
Title: Porsche - 1962 Leather Interior Restoration
Content Description: Demonstrates Advanced Leather Solutions
techniques for restoring the leather interior of a classic car.
Title: Coffee Bean Color System
Content Description: Demonstrates the Advanced Leather
Solutions DIYLeatherSolutions.com Coffee Bean generic color system showing the
ability to create a mottled color affect while changing the color of leather.
Title: Professional Leather Color Change Procedure
Content Description: Demonstrates the process of a full color
change, converting an orange leather club chair to a version of brown as
selected by the client.
Title: Body Oil Extraction Procedure for Leather
Furniture
Content Description: Demonstrates the procedure for body oil
extraction from a leather backrest as one of the steps in the DIY Leather
Restoration system offered by Advanced Leather Solutions. To see a slide presentation by a client that
shows the entire process including priming and coloring after the oil extractor
step, go to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Title: Cassina Soriana Seating Upholstery Project
Content Description: This video shows the upholstery of a
Cassina Soriana chair.
Title: Advanced Leather Solution's Generic Colors
Content Description: Shows a color change demonstration on
leather from grey to either Coffee Bean or Mahogany color systems provided by
DIY Leather Solutions.
Title: Is Your Leather a Candidate for Restoration -
A Test
Content Description: How do you know if your leather is
healthy enough to be restored? Any
leather restoration process will only be successful if the integrity of the
leather is still good. This video shows
how to test your leather's integrity.
Title: Jaguar XK-120, 1953 Leather Restoration
Content Description: This is a brief edited version of a video
showing the before during and after of the conservation and preservation of
this badly worn out leather seating completed by Advanced Leather
Solutions. The full 25 minute video is
available via download from www.advleather.com on the automobile page.
Title: Wiped Color Affect for Leather Restoration
Content Description: Shows how to recreate a subtle mottling
wiped color affect on leather as a color restoration technique.
Title: Omersa Leather Rhino Restoration Project
Content Description: This project demonstrates the leather
restoration work that is done at Advanced Leather Solutions, Inc. studio in
Hayward, CA. It shows the level of
craftsmanship you can expect from Advanced Leather.
Repair Techniques
Title: How to Remove Scratches from
Pull-up Leather
Content Description: Demonstrates how to resolve scratches and
packing tape damage marks from a pull up leather using Scratch Remover.
Title: Leather Color - Print Coat
Failure
Content Description: Shows a weakness in the coloring system
used to color this leather. The original
protective coating has very little wear or chemical resistance, including
against water. This piece is manufactured by Ashley Furniture.
Title: Resolving Mold in Leather
Content Description: Mold?
Video demonstrates how to resolve mold in or on leather.
Title: Leather Color Failure - Print
Coat
Content Description: Why does the color of leather come off or
fade? It's called Leather Print Coat
Failure
Title: Resolving a Dent in Leather Furniture
Content Description: Have a dent in your leather
furniture? This video demonstrates how
to resolve it.
Title: Leather Lacing on a Cushion
Content Description: Leather furniture restoration often
requires some level of uniqueness. In
this case, we are re-lacing leather as part of our restoration process. We had to remove the original lacing as we
replaced the seat cushion with new leather and to restore the color, we had to
remove the original lacing else the lacing would have been colored as well.
Title: Sticky Name Tag Problem on Leather Jacket
Content Description: Have you been to a function wearing a
beautiful leather jacket and someone hands you a name tag to stick on the
leather? Oppps... When you pull the name tag off, the leather color
comes with it along with some of the epidermis as a sticky Band-aid would pull
some of your skin when removing. This
video shows how to solve that problem and save the expensive leather jacket.
Title: How to Insert Foam into a New Cushion Casing
Content Description: Show a simple technique to ease the
effort of inserting foam into a leather cushion. This little trick saves a lot of time and
energy in getting the foam neatly and quickly inside the leather cushion
casing.
Title: Natuzzi Internals
Content Description: Shows how a Natuzzi sofa is constructed
internally and after years of use, how the internal support systems failed
causing a sinking seat deck.
Title: Repairing Bicast Leather Cushion Casing - Part 2
Content Description: This is the second of two videos that
shows the process of repairing via sub-patch under the entire seat top of a
bicast cushion.
Title: Repairing Bicast Leather
Cushion casing - Part 1
Content Description: Describes how to repair bicast cushion
casing using a sub-patch method to bring strength through sub-patch to the underside
of the leather
Title: Vinyl Repair Technique
Content Description: Shows how to repair a hole in vinyl.
Title: Print Color technique with a badger 250
Content Description: Shows how to apply missing print coat to
a leather cushion.
Title: How to Use a Badger 250 Air Brush
Content Description:
A demonstration by Advanced Leather
Solutions of how to control the air pressure and spray pattern for a Badger 250
air brush.
Leather Care
Title: Advanced Leather Solutions
Leather Protector
Content Description: Demonstration of leather protector against
oil on aniline (unprotected) leather.
Shows how a simple wipe-on application of the protector prevents
absorption of oil. The protector does
not distort the color or the feel of the leather. Check it out.
Title: Leather Cleaner from Advanced Leather
Solutions - SG - 5
Content Description: Leather cleaner from Advanced Leather
Solutions is demonstrated on a heavily soiled leather car seat. Video was taken in Our Hayward, CA leather
restoration studio. The demonstrated
product is SG - 5 leather cleaner.
Title: Cleaning and Conditioning Leather in an
Automobile
Content Description: SG - 5 and SG - 25 leather cleaner and
leather conditioner are demonstrated in an automobile application with light
colored leather that has had dye transfer and soiling discoloring the leather.
Title: Household Cleaners and Leather
Content Description: Shows the effect of household cleaners on
various types of leather. Discusses the
importance of understanding the pH of leather.
Title: The Power of SG - 5 Leather Cleaner Demonstrated
Content Description: Here is an excellent example of the
cleaning power of Advanced Leather Solutions SG - 5 Leather Cleaner. It is one of several leather care products in
the SG series, all intended to prolong the life and beauty of your leather.
Title: How to Clean
Nubuck or Suede Leather Furniture
Content Description:
This video show the
process for cleaning nubuck or suede that does NOT involve a liquid of foam
cleaner. It's based on an abrasion principle that we've been using
successfully for years.
Cat Scratches
Title: Severe Cat Claw Damage Repair
Content Description: Shows repair technique for severely
damaged leather from a cat.
Title: Green Leather Sofa with Cat Scratches
Content Description: This is a simple but effect method for
resolving cat scratches on leather furniture with products from Advanced Leather
Solutions, Inc.
Wassily and Barcelona
Title: Wassily Backrest Installation
Content Description: Shows how to install replacement backrest
leather for a Wassily chair.
Title: How to Identify Barcelona and Wassily Chairs
Authenticity
Content Description: How can you tell a real Wassily chair or
Barcelona chair? Learn the clues to look
for to determine if the piece is the real deal or a knock-off. The video also shows the quality of materials
Advanced Leather Solutions uses to construct replacement components for these
chairs.
Title: How to tell if you have a real Barcelona or
Wassily chair
Content Description: This video from Advanced Leather
Solutions shows you how to tell if you have an original Barcelona or Wassily
chair. It also shows the quality of
workmanship in our replacement parts for Wassily and Barcelona chairs.
