Franklin Sports 1569 MLB Conditioning & Repair Kit

Huge waste of money, the lace is garbage, tools are garbage, never use oil on a glove. There is nothing in this kit worth buying. there is nice lace on Ebay and always use Pecard's Leather care on your glove.

What a great kit. Three rolls of rawhide laces (two beige and one black); an awl, a puller tool, a long needle, polishing mitt, mitt oil, a little brush, and some instructions. Just exactly what you need to relace a mitt.

The instructions are basic and good to get you started. Here's the rub with mitt repair, nobody but nobody publishes diagrams of how mits are actually laced. So if you or your child has pulled the laces completely out of the mitt; well good luck, it might just be impossible to relace. Catcher's mitts - ouch, they are the most difficult in the universe (there are laces in places you'd never imagine).

So big warning Dad's trying to do this, don't let your kid pull the laces out before you get to repairing it. Take pictures, do drawings, and disassemble very carefully and slowly. It's not hard to do the lacing if you follow the original laces.

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I was able to relace 3 laces on my glove with this kit, but half way through the job the wooden handle of the lacing tool came off. I had to use a vice grip with the lacing tool to finish the job. If I ever buy another lacing tool, I would probably try the Louisville slugger needle because it seems like a stronger design and would hold up better. Also, the U-wire lacing needle included in this kit was useless for my glove because the holes were too tight to get the needle through.