Virgo (perfectionists) will carefully check the bag when buying a bag, and will not let go of any details. Of course, they will also carefully check the oil side of the bag. However, the appearance of the oil edge passes the customs. After buying it back, there will still be some phenomena such as oil edge bursting, color fading, blistering, oil removal, deformation, stickiness and so on. What's going on? Professional and shrewd senior bag powder, know how to identify whether the bag is worth the money? See through the bag is good or bad, there is a trick that is: look at the oil edge.

Oil edge, is to give the leather edge of the bag, coated with a layer of oily substance, used to cover the leather incision, as well as the combination of the edge of the exposed problem, and to protect the leather, make the leather more resistant to damage.

The quality of the oil edge directly reflects the quality of the bag. If the oil edge is well done, the quality of the bag is not bad.

Why do you say that? Because manual oiledging is a very technical process. The income of experienced manual oiledging skilled workers is not low, and generally small factories cannot afford it. Only bags with good leather, good design and affordable price will choose to be oiled by hand and can afford the labor cost.

A bag that can be seen into the eye should go through at least 3 times of manual oil edging. Each time, it must be dried and smoothed before it can be applied again. For some particularly thick leather materials, it must be applied 6 times or more.

Poor leather, by low-cost volume of explosions, where is worth such a high labor and time costs?

How to distinguish the oil edge of good or bad?

[first] good oil standard is:Uniform, complete, smooth, elastic, not "above"(When the oil edge is applied to the surface of the leather material, it is called "above". Slight and symmetrical "above" is normal, but it cannot be uneven). When leaving the factory, it must be inspected to meet the standard in high temperature and low temperature environment to ensure good explosion-proof performance, non-sticking at high temperature and non-cracking at low temperature.

Poor oil edge, one side of the oil is worse.

The price of edge oil ranges from 20/kg to 200/kg. Look at the difference between them. Edge oil adsorption, gloss, anti-cracking, anti-moth, whether environmental protection and so on have pay attention. Poor edge oil has no luster and is easy to fall off and moth-eaten (moth-eaten is usually caused by adding corn flour).

[Second] is the manual is not good. In fact, if you think about it, this manual work must be done slowly, more delicate, and faster, more rough. According to the "piece-by-piece" accounting for low-grade leather goods, how can you make a good oil edge. What's more, there is a very cheap "one-shot" edge oil on the market now, which is coated with a thick layer. At first glance, it looks good. Just use it a few times and wait to drop it.

Oil edge is not the thicker the better

How thick the oil edge is determined by the characteristics of the leather. Some thick leather needs to be coated with oil many times to cover the edge. The oil edge is naturally thick.

But it's really kung fu to paint the oil edge thin and well.

Vegetable tanned leather of LV is very thin on the water-based oil edge

At present, this simple method of laminating leather surface and inner lining is quite popular. After two layers are laminated, the film is cut by hand. The incision will be very flat (of course, it is also more manual). A thin layer of oil edge needs to be applied first. Because of the thinness, it can only be polished by hand. After a layer of base oil is applied, it can be polished by hand. Then three layers of oil are applied. It is very labor-consuming and of course, and the effect is very good.

The oil edge must not be touched on the leather surface, and the grade of the bag will be LOW at once. Contrast color oil edges will be especially obvious, and it is difficult to clean up, especially destroying the skin. Therefore, expensive good leather materials are absolutely reluctant to let craftsmen with poor craftsmanship spoil edges. They must use high labor costs and ask craftsmen to work slowly.

Treating really good leather is just like treating guests on the seat. All kinds of details should be taken care of. The materials used for the oil edge, the craftsmanship of the workers, the waiting time and the slow work can only be worthy of good leather. Therefore, generally speaking, the details of the oil edge are in place, and the quality of other aspects of the bag is not bad.

So, have you learned how to pick bags?