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For any of us lucky enough to get some decent leather shoes or boots, be it Fracap or Loake will want to keep them in pretty good nick, you need a Leather Care Product .  If you have invested £170 upwards in some good shoes you don't want them to be scuffed or looking shoddy.   As a 40th birthday present, my sis treated me to a pair of Loake shoes, £185 a pair it wasn't a throwaway present, ive not worn them yet because i want to treat them to make them last, what i needed was some good Leather Care Product, and as luck would have it i came across a great little site specialising in the afore mentioned Leather Care Products, called Norton Leather Care, i gave them a call and 'Big Al' talked me through what i needed to keep my shoes in tip-top shape. You wouldn't think there was that much to leather care but there are some real heritage brands here, companies like Angelus, Colinol, Bisheys, Safir that only make leather care stuff, these guys k...

Our phone is always going in the shop, and the same questions keep coming up. Over the coming weeks we will try to cover as many of the most common questions we get asked on pretty much a daily basis - we can then direct people to the blog for a more detailed answer. First up, as I took three calls yesterday regarding this product,   Angelus Leather Paint  will kick off our FAQ's series. It's widely regarded as the premier brand in a whole variety of areas including custom sneakers, bike saddles/saddle bags, touching up leather car interiors etc. etc. A quick search on google will find a whole host of tutorials and examples of what can be done with Angelus, so here's some of them which you may find useful and inspiring... These amazing Kaws custom Nike's are done by renowned sneaker artist Mache, you can find out more about him in his interview with sneakerfreaker magazine . Next guy I was really impressed by was Stizo with his Buzz Flightyear Hi, you can ch...

Anyone who uses leather paint uses Angelus Leather Paint , WHY ???? i hear you ask, well just take a look at this bag that Paul Holden painted Orange to match his Flymo bike. Paul dropped us an email and he loved the product, he wrote "Hi there, I just thought I’d drop you a line to say how please I am with your leather paint! I’ve recently customised my bike in a “nice” black and orange colour scheme to go with my Flymo nickname and using your paint to paint the tank bag has made it match really well. Feel free to use these pictures for marketing if you want. All the best. Paul" We are the only UK stockist of Angelus Leather Paint , and are always amazed at the diversity of its uses, for a product we imported to customise sneakers, its gone way beyond that now and if you have some work photgraphed please send us the images and we will post them up to let other aspiring crafts people show their work. So, to sum it up, Angelus has a great many uses, from Jacket...

IMG_0795249 , originally uploaded by Fat Buddha Store . Angelus Leather Paint, always a cracker, ideal for sneaker customising, and available for purchase at Fat Buddha .

Bought some of our new Angelus paints this week to try them out. I have an old pair of Nike Air Flights, used for basketball, in the worst colours imaginable (I'm not proud, but I am cheap) so I thought I'd complete them and turn them into true bad taste. I also saw it as a chance to experiment with the paint and see how it works so I could truthfully give advice to any inquistitive customers.  Answer-Shoe customising is really, really hard. Remondelling kicks is an extremely laborious but ultimately very enjoyable experience. But it's incredibly difficult. The paint ran every where, the detail was tricky, the fact it's a 3D object is a nightmare. But at the end of it, I looked at the terrible shoe I had created and realised that the whole time I had been the calmest I had felt in ages. The patience and devotion involved was probably beyond my impatient and lazy self but it's great. And you can create stuff like this: More over at my blog on the sidebar or try kick...

Instore now, we have the full range of Angelus Leather Paint in 1oz bottles and a few in the 4oz bottles, we also have the duller and 4 varieties of the Acrylic finisher. Angelus Leather Paint is the only paint to be used by all the sneaker customisers, all the ones you have seen in all the books, use Angelus Leather Paint , the company has been going strong since 1904 and when it comes to leather products, they know their stuff. All the colours are in stock and we have another order placed which should see the 4oz bottles arrive in 25 colours, and the deglazer, white & black in pint bottles. Delivery is next day and the full range will be online this week.