DJ_JonnyV- One of the great things about better shoes is that you *can* do rebuilds
bert31- On the differences between pastes and creams, different techniques probably explain a lot. I learned what I do by watching the guys do my shoes every Friday at the local shine parlor back in the day and they were using the same Kiwi paste. After a zillion tries at doing what they did, I finally got it right
You and I seem to have a lot in common on this stuff...I wear Hickey and Oxxford, no Italian stuff for me either. And I too prefer my AE shoes over all my others and yeah, I saw that on their website about carnauba!