Making the toes of a pair of parade shoes shine?

skintscotsman

Mr_Proctalgia wrote:

As an Ex squaddie I know how to "Bull" boots, as previously mentioned use Kiwi, get a yellow duster and sit down, give the toe caps a good covering of Kiwi and leave overnight, then open the polish put a little water in the lid double up the yellow duster put it over your finger and dampen the duster, dip it in the polish and start bulling in small circular movements, do not press too hard, in time a high degree of shine will develop, when the polish has gone add a little more water and polish and continue, it does take ages but does work. (After several months you can even cover all the stitching)

HTH

exactly how i would advise how to do it......i could've maybe made my post a little clearer/ :T

squeaky

I'll echo the above except that I always found that spit worked better than water. And definitely Kiwi over Cherry Blossom.

There is no way to beat the depth of shine you get this way - the heating tricks just don't match it. And I can tell you that going along the inspection line you can see who has done their boots which way.

Graham_S_4

can't really help with the polishing - but on my course the other day one of the ladies (it was me and 17 women in the room !!) said when she was little her dad cut the toes out of one years shoes to make next years sandles !!

Mrsbojangles_2

Spit and elbow grease (SMILEY)

iwannamotorbike

Hi

Just a quick word of thanks to all the posters.

Look like my son's got his work cut out for him

Shine on......


Allan

rockape_2

Mr_Proctalgia wrote:

As an Ex squaddie I know how to "Bull" boots, as previously mentioned use Kiwi, get a yellow duster and sit down, give the toe caps a good covering of Kiwi and leave overnight, then open the polish put a little water in the lid double up the yellow duster put it over your finger and dampen the duster, dip it in the polish and start bulling in small circular movements, do not press too hard, in time a high degree of shine will develop, when the polish has gone add a little more water and polish and continue, it does take ages but does work. (After several months you can even cover all the stitching)

HTH

i'm currently a serving member of the RAF Regiment, we polish our shoes this way, BUT when bulling with water, forget the yellow duster as it can scratch and instead use cotton wool

nabowla

Kiwi Parade Gloss is definitely the way forward according to our Sarge. He decided to take me in hand a few months ago........even though I'm a civvie! Apparently the naked flame thing works a treat but "I wouldn't trust you with a flame anywhere near a pair of decent shoes, Ma'am", so I was taught the water method described by Mr P. Yes, it requires a hell of a lot of elbow grease but it really does work. Just make sure that you've covered the kitchen floor with newspaper beforehand.........unlike my first attempt

weenie

Hi all!!

My hubby is a sergeant in the Army, so he regularly has to have shiny boots.
Just asked him and he paints on something called "Liquid Luster".

He used it for his Rememberance Sunday parade.

What a shine!!!

Will find out were to get it from for you. :T :T

squeaky

rockape wrote:

i'm currently a serving member of the RAF Regiment, we polish our shoes this way, BUT when bulling with water, forget the yellow duster as it can scratch and instead use cotton wool

Yep water can scratch ! but spit doesn't. Odd that, but true

Nikki

rockape wrote:

i'm currently a serving member of the RAF Regiment, we polish our shoes this way, BUT when bulling with water, forget the yellow duster as it can scratch and instead use cotton wool

I used to be in the R.A.F and this is the method we used to bull our shoes as we found using dusters left scratches. 'Rockape' that's a word I haven't heard for a long time!!