Bull polishing

With water polish ( also called water -gloss finish ) refers to a special method to polish leather shoes to a shine. This polishing method is common among shoe lovers.

Requirement for a water polishing is the care of the vamp with a hard wax cream ( classic shoe polish in flat tin cans ). Located on the upper ( = shaft leather) a thin layer of hard wax cream, this can then be rubbed with a cloth moistened with a few drops of water cloth to a high gloss. For this purpose the ( cotton ) cloth is wrapped around one or two fingertips, added a little shoe polish and then lightly dipped in water with this point. Is then approached with this wasserbefeuchteten shoe polish over the leather. There are different techniques of water polishing: for example, can be polished or with long sweeping trains with small circular movements. The well-known trick of Draufspuckens when polishing shoes is nothing more than a variant of this water polishing.

As a result of this water polishing, the surface becomes increasingly smooth and reflects the incident light is always directed. This gives the specular gloss impression of the leather surface.

The polish is all the easier, the more frequently the shoe has been maintained with hard wax cream. New shoes can be water- polish only with a larger amount of time. A once with a water polishing polished to high gloss shoe is very easy to bring back later in this condition. Due to the particularly smooth surface dirt adhesion is lower, and the shoe care is the future vonstatten faster.