Restoration on wingtips with flaking and peeling acrylic clear coat. What a mess!!

NOTE: unfortunately I set the camera to auto ISO which was an absolute disaster. You will see the color adjust from olive to more brown during the video. Unfortunately I was not able to completely adjust for it in my editing. It changed too many times during the video even during individual clips for me to adjust it completely. I did my best. It came down to the choice of do I publish this video or scrap it and since it was a unique scenario I decided to publish it. Hopefully this won't happen again and thanks for bearing with me! Quite the unique situation on these. The client had this pair and felt they just wouldn't take or maintain a good shine. Took them to a local cobbler who "fixed" them with a clear coat acrylic. It did indeed look a little more shiny but sadly this temporary fix did not last. The acrylic cracked and flaked at all the flex points on the shoe....Call in the shoe doc. A good portion was removed with a stiff brushing but on the toe and heel where the shoes don't flex the acrylic had to be removed chemically. Luckily they cleaned up and shined up great. For those of you that are hesitant to use leather dyes, this one is for you! No dyes were used on this restoration. Just creams, polish and some elbow grease. Remember that a high shine is accomplished by filling in all the pores in the leather surface and creating a perfectly smooth surface with wax. Even though this acrylic was reflective it still took on the shape of the leather and therefore had all the little pores that were present in the leather originally. It was not a very high shine. There just aren't any real shortcuts. It takes time and patience and many small layers to fill that in and create a smooth reflective surface. Also remember that you can't high shine areas that will bend and flex like the vamp and sides of the shoe...the wax will crack in these ares and can only take a very small thin layer of wax. Keep on shining my friends!