Tobacco Brown Wallet Week 3

Week three has come and gone and my wallet is holding up great.  My wife accidentally spilled some breastmilk on the wallet so I decided to use some Chamberlin leather milk liniment to clean the wallet. It did darken up considerably after the cleaning and the breast milk stain came out rather easily.  The wallet is now able to hold the full 18 cards as advertised on the website it did not take very long for the card slots to stretchout enough to accommodate that many cards.  On the inside of the wallet the threads from the card slots are printing on the leather and darkening it slightly under the threads on the opposite side as seen below.

Other markings from the wallet rubbing against itself while in my pocket are now also visible on the inside.

There is a good bit of edge wear on the outside of the stitching along the edge of the leather.  It's darkening, smoothing out, and really adds a nice accent to the wallet and I can't wait until the entire edge is darkened in this way.

I am a little disappointed that the bug bites are no longer as prominent since using the chamberlains leather milk. They are still really nice, however they don't stand out as much as they used to which is to be expected. I'm not sure if the wallet will lighten up again but time will tell.

You can see more pronounced vertical stretch marks in the wallet as it begins to break in on the front as shown above and on the back as shown below.

The wallet is in a way bunching up at the bottom where the wallet folds.  The money compartment is still a little tight and I'm hoping that this breaks and with time.

There is some great texture starting to appear on the wallet at the top of where the wallet folds.  This seems to be a high stress area so the more I use it I believe the texture will continue to develop I am interested to see what will happen after I use the chamberlains leather milk again. I'm not sure if this

 texture will buff out or if it's there to stay. I'm hoping it's here to stay.

So that's the update on The life of my leather, medium tobacco brown wallet edition.  

I have an extra large classic briefcase also in Tobacco Brown, but my wife says I can't have it until Father's Day.  It's my first Fathers Day ever and my wife gave me the best present ever (my daughter) and the second best present ever (my XL Classic) that I can't wait to lay eyes on.  She already told me there is some sweet scarring on the bag! I also ordered a medium notepad holder and that should be arriving tomorrow I will update the blog and post pics of that as I start day one in the life of my leather medium notebook holder edition tomorrow.

Tobacco Brown Wallet Week 1

So I have owned my Medium Tobacco Brown Saddleback Leather Wallet for a week now.  Even though it was bought through the Saddleback Leather website the 100 year warranty is transferrable.  So as they put it, your distant relatives can contact their distant relatives and take care of any issues with the product.

After the first week I have to say that I am extremely pleased with the wallet.  The cards were a little tough to get into the wallet at first but it has become easy to slide them in and out.  The wallet has darkened some in the first week, and I am getting some sweet break in points on this piece.

There is some cool edge wear happening from taking it in and out of my pocket.  It is turning dark between the edge of the leather and where it is stitched.  I am excited to see if this continues.

As you can see the wallet has darkened a bit.

There is a scuff mid way up above the Saddleback signature.  I got that fishing for my keys at my daughters 4 month old photo shoot.  It was Easter Themed.

I forgot to mention in my previous post that the wallet has a nice scar in the pig skin where the wallet folds in the middle, as well as some sweet scars next to the "Blue" logo on the inside.  Check them out.

So the long journey that is the life of my leather begins.