New belt - conditioning needed?

[Trueno]

I needed a cheap small belt for photo purposes and spotted a new-in-wrap Hunter buscadero belt on Gunbroker. Took the coiled belt out of the package and when I started to unroll it the surface tried to wrinkle as I flattened it out.

Any suggestions on "relaxing" the surface or should I slowly (over a week or month) unroll the coiled belt?

[Good Troy]

I'm interested in the possible solutions myself.  I've had this happen on a few belts/straps which I done a wax type top coat finish.  I've burnished them with a thick glass plate (available from Tandy), and this is only temporary, as the wrinkles return after drying and bending again.  Additional coats of oil didn't help much either...
Standing by and waiting.....
PS...I'm the most patient cowboy in the crowd....as long as it don't take too long.

[dwight55]

Without seeing it, . . . I'm tempted to say you probably have some kind of layer separation, . . . and the top layer has stretched.

If the leather could be described as having blisters instead of just wrinkles, . . . that is what you are looking at.  The outside layer has stretched and separated from the rest of the inside and now when you try to lay it flat, . . . it will not recoil like a rubber band or a solid piece of leather, . . . it want's to bubble up.

I don't know a cure, . . . I've got a piece of 8 oz, . . . snow white leather, . . . about 1 sq foot of it is like that, . . . and I paid some really good money for that 1 sq foot that I'll probably get sick of seeing one day and give it the pitch.

I've had it do that on some other pieces from time to time, . . . never have found a cure. 

May God bless,
Dwight

[Good Troy]

Thanks Dwight55....
I was afraid of the answer.  It does appear in my case that there is a "delamination".