The real stuff, from the people who make it.
Small-batch products for conditioning your treasured leather goods and protecting or restoring wood. Made with beeswax from our apiary.
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Our bundles include our famous, natural products for your wood or leather project and the right tools to use them. Save money with a kit!
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This section could be hidden but I recommend starting with kits to entice first-time buyers. Kits help to ensure that your recommended tools are used and therefore should improve overall satisfaction.
Leather Care
For boots, bags & saddles
Skidmore’s 6 oz. Leather Cream and sheepskin pads — bring leather back to life.
Wood Care
For furniture & wood surfaces
Liquid Beeswax Wood Finish and Sealer — enrich grain and protect wood projects.
MOTORCYCLE CARE
For seats, jackets & riding gear
Cream, finish, and tools — for leather and gear you ride hard.
Exceptionally Low VOC
Locally Made / Small Batches
Over 40 Years Experience
From the hive to the workshop
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Leather
Cleans, conditions, and protects boots, saddles, and bags.
Wood
Restores grain, feeds the wood, and seals in protection — non-toxic finish and sealer.
Biker
Conditions and protects seats, jackets, and gear that take weather and miles.
Tools
Get the tools that we’ve personally developed over decades for the best results.
Passed on by word of mouth
Time has marched on and Skidmore’s products have made their way around the country and the globe — passed on and advertised simply by word of mouth.
Susan & Vince · Port Townsend
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Customer quotes land here after Susan picks favorites from real orders and mail.
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No fabricated before/afters — only real projects and faces.
Laramie · late 1980s
Meet Vince & Susan
Skidmore’s is a small family business that started in Laramie, Wyoming in the late 1980s. Vince spent his teen years in the family antique shop — stripping, repairing, and refinishing wood — and created a simple, non-toxic wood finish from that work. Our top-selling Skidmore’s Leather Cream is “a gift from the universe.” He mixed the first batch in a coffee can when he needed a better product to treat his boots.
In 2011 they moved the workshop to Port Townsend, Washington. Vince still produces every product by hand in small batches; together they still label, pack, and ship daily. If you call, you’ll get Vince or Susan — not a ticket queue.
Map: U.S. Post Office Dept., 1883 post routes — Digital Commonwealth / BPL Leventhal Map Center (modified for web).