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Originally Posted by sheepherder
It does indeed! 
How did you 'whiten' the stitching??? 
And what is that little hooked tool??? |
I was lucky in that the black paint used did not seep into the stitching, but rather remained on the surface. So I simply, well not very simply, applied pressure with the wider flat tool and moved along the stitching. It was almost a slow poking movement. The paint flaked off and revealed egg shell colored stitching.
That blue polymer pick is just one of a batch of cheap tools I 'picked' up off Amazon. I knew using a metal scraping tool would be risky to the leather and perhaps tear into the surface of the leather, so I went with hard polymer. That picker worked in tight spots. Most of the paint was removed with that bigger tool.
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Originally Posted by ithacaartist
Eugene,
Reach around and give yourself a pat on the back for this one! Very nice results, and I'm particularly surprised how clean the stitching seems to have come.
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Thank you and the others for your supporting comments and help on this project. Folks on this forum are wonderfully helpful beyond expectations.
Yes, I got lucky on the stitching. I am glad the nincompoop that spray painted the holster did not use black shoe polish or other staining product on the stitching, or it might have been a sadly different outcome.
Perhaps with my work restoring this holster I will have earned a boy scout Luger badge or promotion from Luger Forum newbie ...to rookie second class now. LOL