Share This Page:
Shoe Bulling
-
Alex Himself
- Member
- Posts: 148
- Joined: Sun 14 Dec, 2003 11:48 pm
- Location: Wiltshire
- Contact:
-
Snipershot
- Member
- Posts: 2
- Joined: Tue 18 Mar, 2008 1:18 pm
- Location: Birmingham
Why do all these forums wander from the actual point of the forum. ANYWAY, away from the sexuality of certain people.. all the crap about burning and all that rubbish is myth. A good smooth cloth with a lot of water and a tiny amount of parade gloss in little circles WORKS. But don't expect it to work after 3 mins, really work at it for a good 25-30 mins. Then your shoes/boots will shine, almost as good as mine;)
-
NiallJames
- Member
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Tue 08 Jul, 2008 5:13 pm
- Location: Swansea
Sigh, where's a Guardsman when you need one.
Burning or beeswaxing does work, but it requires someone who knows what the f@#k they are doing to do it well, and you aren't it - all it does is provide a hard base so the bull doesn't flake off.
Don't use parade gloss except possibly as a final finisher, it doesn't build up layers properly.
Don't use bloody yellow dusters, they will scratch the bull. Also, old selvyts are better than new ones, you need to smooth down the material a bit - preferably when you get it, dampen it and then brush it hard to get excess fibres off.
Never tried the brown polish under black thing, but also heard it works.
Layering is the important part - you need to be doing the things for weeks in advance; layer on polish with a finger, rub it in until it goes matt and no longer wet, brush off lightly so it is no longer matt, then bull with a damp selvyt and a small dab of polish on it. Hard bull first (rubbing firmly and quickly up and down), and then after a few minutes do the more gentle bull-in-circles method and continue ad infinitum. Keep cloth damp at all times. Do this over 5-10 sessions of 30-45 minutes each, then you can water bull a final shine - use soaking wet cotton wool to bull while running the shoe under a tap, shake as much excess off as possible then pat dry to prevent water marks.
Not a Guardsman, and it pains me that I know this much about something so fecking pointless as bulling, but I have just spent 14 weeks under a Grenadier CSgt learning this shit and far too much of that was spent bulling, so might as well spread the wealth.
PS Hmm, I've just resurrected a really old thread, haven't I? I lose at the internet.
Burning or beeswaxing does work, but it requires someone who knows what the f@#k they are doing to do it well, and you aren't it - all it does is provide a hard base so the bull doesn't flake off.
Don't use parade gloss except possibly as a final finisher, it doesn't build up layers properly.
Don't use bloody yellow dusters, they will scratch the bull. Also, old selvyts are better than new ones, you need to smooth down the material a bit - preferably when you get it, dampen it and then brush it hard to get excess fibres off.
Never tried the brown polish under black thing, but also heard it works.
Layering is the important part - you need to be doing the things for weeks in advance; layer on polish with a finger, rub it in until it goes matt and no longer wet, brush off lightly so it is no longer matt, then bull with a damp selvyt and a small dab of polish on it. Hard bull first (rubbing firmly and quickly up and down), and then after a few minutes do the more gentle bull-in-circles method and continue ad infinitum. Keep cloth damp at all times. Do this over 5-10 sessions of 30-45 minutes each, then you can water bull a final shine - use soaking wet cotton wool to bull while running the shoe under a tap, shake as much excess off as possible then pat dry to prevent water marks.
Not a Guardsman, and it pains me that I know this much about something so fecking pointless as bulling, but I have just spent 14 weeks under a Grenadier CSgt learning this shit and far too much of that was spent bulling, so might as well spread the wealth.
PS Hmm, I've just resurrected a really old thread, haven't I? I lose at the internet.
