How to take proper care of your C&J shoes

Bond-on-a-Budget

I need some advice on how to take care of my Tetburys. I have the C&J shoe trees and I keep the shoes in their dust bag, I just want to know which brands of shoe products my fellows Bond-a-holics suggest.
Thank you

always shaken

Bond-on-a-Budget wrote:

I need some advice on how to take care of my Tetburys. I have the C&J shoe trees and I keep the shoes in their dust bag, I just want to know which brands of shoe products my fellow Bond-a-holics suggest.
Thank you

invest in a good pair of un-varnished cedar wood (preferably French cedar)shoe trees
and what ever you do don't give them to the man in the Mall to be re-soled they have to go back to
C&J ,don't wear them every day ,let them rest and cool down , I use KIWI shoe polish and parade gloss
on my leathers,and an old fine wire brass brush on my suedes,

Gomers

You really can't go wrong with Saphir stuff http://www.afinepairofshoes.co.uk/collections/saphir-price-asc

I use the renovateur and dubbin on my Trickers, great quality.

dr go

i totally second saphir creams and polishes. C&J make good brushes and polishes too.
I use a combination of Church's creams, Saphir renovateur, C&J polishes and a berluti mitt. I also use various clean soft rags and an old t-shirt.

Somatic

I thought about getting the C&J shoe trees, but damn they're far more expensive than I anticipated. What shoe trees do you guys use? (Links would be very appreciated)

Bond-on-a-Budget

I bought a pair of shoe trees from C&J, they came with the Tets. They are expensive but necessary.
There are other "aftermarket" ones of high quality that can be purchased for far less than the original C&J ones

Thank you all for your help

mrbond5150

You should check out Mantis' video on this subject... http://thebondexperience.com/bond-videos/james-bond-shoe-shine/