Hello everyone. My dad was not a gun or knife person. When he died back in September 2015 I was given a knife that he got many years a go from his work. He worked for a Ford/Motorcraft warehouse and he delivered those parts to Ford dealers all over the state. Well I found a knife. The origonal box was still there but torn and falling apart. The knife was still in the leather sheath and still in its thin white plastic wrap. The knife is a Buck 110 with the normal wood and brass. It has a Ford logo on the blade. The sheath is brown leather. It is badly dried out, ashy looking, and very stiff. My question is how do I restore the sheath? I have never done this and do not have any of the special soaps and oils that I read about via Google. I do not plan to carry or use this knife, but I would like to have it looking decent and help protect it from further damage.

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Massage some baby oil into the leather as evenly as you can and let it dry. Repeat a couple more times and then wax it with Johnson's paste wax. Neutral paste shoe polish would also work for a top coat. I've used shaving cream with lanolin to help break in stiff baseball gloves so that's a thought. Maybe apply some sc to the rough inside sheath. Good luck, Buck 110s are great and useful knives.

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God spelled backwards is dog.

A Neatsfoot oil treatment should soften and clean the old leather. It has been used for over a century to soften and condition leathers. Any of the top rated leather conditioners should also work as most contain some neatsfoot oil and wax in an evaporating carrier. Go to a high end boot store or local cobbler and they will carry at least one of the top brands of leather goo. I use Blackrock Leather N Rich, but Leather Honey's, Chamberlain's Leather Milk, Bick 4, or Lord are all good.

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Guy-Harold Smith II

https://www.pecard.com/product-category/antique/ i use pecard leather dressing on everything. this is their antique leather dressing. made in green bay, wi. USA

Smith357 - follow his advice.

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Bee's wax worked in on both side of the leather.

If the restoration does not turn out to your satisfaction, you can always buy another one from Buck, although I understand why you want to restore it.

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If you were close I'd give you a thimble full of Blackrock Leather & Rich and I bet you'd be happy.