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Help needed to restore old/worn football (LSU memorabilia)
Posted on 6/6/14 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 6/6/14 at 8:54 pm
I'm hoping someone on the rant can help me or at least point me in the direction of someone locally in BR that can help me with this.
When I was a senior at LSU (2003), I went around and got all the current coaches/AD/chancellor to sign a football so that I could have a unique piece of memorabilia to remember my senior year and the various coaches that were at LSU alongside with me....as you see in the pictures, I got:
-Nick Saban
-Skip Bertman (AthlDirector)
-Mark Emmert (Chancellor)
-Sue Gunter, women's bball
-Smoke Laval, baseball
-John Brady, basketball
-Yvette Girouard, softball
Unfortunately, I've moved a couple times since then, and somewhere along the way that football got forgotten by me and stored in a moving box and eventually ended up in a Non-climate-controlled shed in my backyard.......as you can see in the pictures, the football itself is in pretty bad/ragged shape, especially the one football-leather quadrant.....it's like melted or simply dried out or something. The white quadrants are pretty dried/cracked as well.
Does anyone have any experience with or know someone that could possibly "restore" this football? This thing means significantly more to me now than it did when I first got all the signatures in 2003, and i want to take care of it like it needs to be going forward. Much much thanks to someone that can point me in the right direction.
When I was a senior at LSU (2003), I went around and got all the current coaches/AD/chancellor to sign a football so that I could have a unique piece of memorabilia to remember my senior year and the various coaches that were at LSU alongside with me....as you see in the pictures, I got:
-Nick Saban
-Skip Bertman (AthlDirector)
-Mark Emmert (Chancellor)
-Sue Gunter, women's bball
-Smoke Laval, baseball
-John Brady, basketball
-Yvette Girouard, softball
Unfortunately, I've moved a couple times since then, and somewhere along the way that football got forgotten by me and stored in a moving box and eventually ended up in a Non-climate-controlled shed in my backyard.......as you can see in the pictures, the football itself is in pretty bad/ragged shape, especially the one football-leather quadrant.....it's like melted or simply dried out or something. The white quadrants are pretty dried/cracked as well.
Does anyone have any experience with or know someone that could possibly "restore" this football? This thing means significantly more to me now than it did when I first got all the signatures in 2003, and i want to take care of it like it needs to be going forward. Much much thanks to someone that can point me in the right direction.
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This post was edited on 6/6/14 at 8:59 pm
Posted on 6/6/14 at 9:00 pm to JPLSU1981
Honestly it doesn't look in too bad of shape. You can try and restore the brown leather yourself and put it in a glass case somewhere and it'll be fine
Posted on 6/6/14 at 9:04 pm to JPLSU1981
No Pat Henry...the greatest track and field coach in NCAA history?
I'm not sure how much it costs to restore the brown leather part of it, but it might be cheaper to just paint the brown part purple or gold.
I'm not sure how much it costs to restore the brown leather part of it, but it might be cheaper to just paint the brown part purple or gold.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 9:07 pm to JPLSU1981
Whatever you do, don't mess with the white part and the signatures. All you can do is make it worse with tampering. As the other poster stated, it's not that bad. I'd leave it alone and take care of it from now on as it is.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 10:56 pm to JPLSU1981
If you want to make it look a little better without chancing it then just rub the brown side down with some leather conditioner a few times to darken it back up so the color matches and it doesn't look splotchy.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 11:26 pm to JPLSU1981
I think it looks rather good to be honest. You can get some leather oil and put that on the brown side of the football and try to brighten that up but I think it looks really good.
Get a little plexiglass box and put it in there. Keep it in your house and display it.
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Get a little plexiglass box and put it in there. Keep it in your house and display it.
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