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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    This is how I feel about a lot of this thread.
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/leather-under-a-microscope.113829/ Working on it. Pores seem to be emerging as a tell. Visible by eye or with a magnifying glass if your eyes aren't the greatest.
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    Leather under a microscope

    No idea. Looks like the the hide is thin enough that there are holes through it, and the hair is coming through? That's a WAG. Contact Aero.
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    Pattern making learning process

    Snow and a sick 4yo (and I'm rapidly joining the sick roster) led to some jacket work today. I got two more panels finalized, but came to the realization that I need a better way to hold and fold things... I have one large binder clip, and a dozen or so of the smallest. The small ones can easily...
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    Pattern making learning process

    I found a small amount of bandwidth to work on this project today. Here's the jacket in question. It didn't occur to me until I was elbow deep that this is about the perfect jacket for learning this aspect of things. It has a lot of features, is too big for me in pretty much every dimension, and...
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    Pattern making learning process

    Overthinking is definitely a thing I do. Not even going to pretend otherwise. I can do that between other activities though, during fairly idle tasks throughout the day, or in the few minutes between shutting down work for the evening and preparing/eating dinner and getting the kid and then...
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    Pattern making learning process

    Interesting about the old Singers. I hadn't really given that sort of machine much thought. A quick google says it's easy to find walking foot attachments for them. A quick browsing of FBMP says there are a handful of old Singers available for reasonable prices, but almost no information about...
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    Pattern making learning process

    I am going to do exactly that. I’m going to get a pattern from it non-destructively as practice for a vintage jacket I expect to have my hands on soon, then blow it apart and check my work, so to speak. I hadn’t thought about sewing it back together for even more practice though! I also need to...
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    Pattern making learning process

    It was briefly touched on in the microscopy thread that I was planning to pull a pattern off a Vanson this past weekend. So much for that... I've lived in Colorado for 12 years, mostly in the foothills/mountains above Denver. I've seen floods, fires, blizzards, bears, mountain lions, literal...
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    Leather under a microscope

    This would probably be better in the pattern thread, but I prefer conversations to be organic. My first jacket will probably be made from vinyl table cloth material. Second will be whatever is cheap from Tandy or similar. Third, assuming the other two go well, might be something fun and...
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    Leather under a microscope

    Just finished going through the latest tranche analysis. Kinda disappointed in horse across the board (though the samples from Shinki and Horween were much better). Kinda impressed with Badalassi. I will absolutely have a kangaroo peel on my bench in the near future! There's a subjective...
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    Leather under a microscope

    If leather jackets are just a style thing for you or a fashion statement or whatever, it probably doesn't mean anything. Feel free to move along. Or stick around for the idle curiosity of it. I'm a bit more interested in it as a material. I'm either making or having made a custom jacket, and I...
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    Leather under a microscope

    Kangaroo, vegetable tanned, brown Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x Different color, different light. There are more of those fat crystals. In this sample, neither of the vertical or horizontal macro features are visible. The grain differentiation might be more visible...
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    Leather under a microscope

    Kangaroo, vegetable tanned, black Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x This has been more manipulated than the natural sample. A lot more swelling between the pores. It's also less clear what's going on in profile. Sorry for all the rotation. These profile photos are hard...
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    Leather under a microscope

    Kangaroo vegetable tanned, natural Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x ...And now for something COMPLETELY different! We've left the barnyard for this one. Then kept going and left the country. Then the continent. Then the hemisphere in two dimensions! Completely different...
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    Leather under a microscope

    Maryam Wash - horse Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x I lied. One more horse. It looks like the "Wash" name probably means they get it good and wet and expanded, then rub it with something to give it a worn look. Not a fan. Also, makes it pretty difficult to make out the...
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    Leather under a microscope

    Maryam Sauro - horse Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x This is supposed to be full grain as well, but again it looks corrected. In the 180x photo, you can see some clear skin between the pores, and then it looks sanded down everywhere else... I think this is the last of...
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    Leather under a microscope

    Maryam Horserump TPR Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 90x Edge 180x Edge 270x This one had a weird sanded looking striated finish to it. It was hard to find a clear section for imaging. Kinda disappointing too. Minimally processed horse must have a lot of scars and bites... This isn't as heavily...
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    Leather under a microscope

    Maryam Crazy Horse Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 45x Edge 90x Edge 180x I'm pretty sure I've read that one of the big name manufacturers is using this hide. It's supposed to be full grain, but it looks either corrected, or very heavily worked. I don't see any pores... Maybe it's just so...
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    Leather under a microscope

    "Cordovan" Calf - cow Macro 90x 180x 270x Edge 45x Edge 90x Edge 180x This one was HEAVY on the marketing wank... 'Cordovan Calf - Luxury Calfskin "Finished like Shell Cordovan"' It's supposedly calf skin finished like shell cordovan. Unless, of course, you know how shell cordovan is...

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