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I stripped and chopped a crusty old freebie brooks. Scraped the old crusty layer off and rubbed loads of olive oil into the leather and then buffed and dried slowly over a few days on the window sill. Avoid pale coloured trousers until all trace of oil is soaked in/buffed out.
This is probably entirely the wrong thing to do but its made a nice comfy saddle that was getting laced anyway so its no real biggy if it softens it a bit.
Theres plenty of ancient brooks out there that haven't been treated so well, they're tough as old boots(being made of the same stuff).