Nate Petty of Magnolia, TX came up with a brilliant idea for using the Mitt-Spit Break-in product when re-lacing. Often the new laces are stiff, sometimes stiffer than the glove leather itself. What Nate discovered is if you apply the Mitt-Spit Break-in product to the laces before you start the lacing project, it makes a lacing job a lot easier. Try it. See if it works for you too. Thanks for the tip Nate. Go to Mitt-Spit Products to buy the correct products for your glove.
baseball mitt break-in
Great Break-in Process for a New Glove
Once again a great idea comes from our customers.
This is also from Walt H. in the Mobile area. Using our Mitt-Spit Break-in product on a very stiff A2000 baseball glove, Walt came up with a brilliant strategy for speeding up to break-in process.
Using two socks filled with rice that was warmed up in his microwave oven (about 30 seconds), Walt put one warmed rice-filled sock on the bottom of a small soft-sided insulated cooler. He applied Mitt-Spit Break-in to the glove and then put the second warmed rice-filled sock into the glove pocket and laid the glove on top of the rice-filled sock already inside the cooler. Then closed the cooler. About 3 hours later, he pulled the glove out and was ready to play ball!
So here's how that works. The break-in oil is very viscous. So it's loaded with the right ingredients for softening the leather. Because it's so viscous, it takes a long time to be absorbed by the glove. However, the gentle warming of the glove with the warmed-up rice -filled socks reduced the viscosity of the critical ingredient in Mitt-Spit Break-in allowing the leather to rapidly absorb this essential ingredient, rendering the glove fully broken in. Genius!
Thank you Walt for this great idea.
Additional thoughts... Never put a glove in the microwave directly. The microwave function warms something up by agitating the water molecules (H2O) in the target. If you use a microwave to heat food, you know it heats unevenly. If you use it on a glove, then some areas of the leather will dry out much faster than others. You risk permanently damaging the leather. Once damaged, it cannot be recovered. Whereas the rice-filled sock approach gradually and gently warms uniformly. go to Mitt-Spit Products to buy the correct products for your glove.