Hi all, I have just finished re-covering a bible for a customer. I made a full leather cover, with curved Yapp-style edges and it looks great. On advice from my bookbinding tutor, I used some Renaissance Wax to polish and protect it (Renaissance Wax is a micro-crystalline finishing wax, that dries hard and gives a good sheen). The leather is a veg-tanned goat, finished with a slightly grained smooth finish, in a deep crimson red. The wax has given it a good shine, but there are several areas where the wax seems to have got into the fine grain of the leather surface and has gone white. A little of this showed up last night, while the book was drying, so the tutor advised that I let it dry until today and polish it with a soft cloth; if any white areas remained, he suggested removing them by buffing with a soft brush. Today there are quite a few areas of white and buffing with a small shoe brush (new) hasn't really made any difference, other than giving a better shine!! Can anyone suggest a way to remove the white patches, without damaging the surface of the leather? Thanks!
Great idea. Thank you very much Philip - the book looks spoilt at the moment, so anything that improves it will be a huge bonus!