I will get in touch with Shawn and see if there is extra expense for alterations. It seems that what my son said is right. "for us, we gotta go bespoke or not go at all".
Yes the satin lining is really good. And I copy your comments about the uneven thickness and the off neck circumference, but I chalk it in, in my case, with the overall slopped up measurements.
This is a great jacket! Is it the 1.3mm HH?
How do you get them to get your measurements on point? I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't follow my instructions as to how to tapper the jacket. And the leather I got feels quite thin for 1.3mm HH
I'm going to go have another go with 5* and this...
And my first 5* adventure has been concluded. The jacket arrived and...as I was afraid it's kinda big in the midsection.
I'm not sure how to address that issue. Any way the jacket is really good, but it has a strange gasoline smell. Good hh leather, no stiffness at all. I guess this will serve...
I would be very interested in a Taubers repro. @tmitchell59 if you can provide 5* with some of the vintage gems you have, it would be great for people like me who could never fit in a real vintage.
Probably they open the package, probably that's why @Canuck Panda said that the ground crews may have had their fun with it. As long as I get it on the day the said, I'm fine.
@Canuck Panda what is your take on Johnson bison Vs HH, say, in functionality under weather as well as riding motorcycles. HH has been an absolute shield, getting better with exposure.
So the question becomes, if LW and 5* have almost the same ratio of successful to unsuccessful products, then which maker would one choose? Neither of them provides a basted fitting as, for example, JL.
Granted LW has been in the business longer and their products are very very good, but makers...
I don't want to waste anybody's time, I am interested, because the jacket we got from LW is a real tank. But I am questioning his choice to just serve a sub-niche part of an already niche market because of inflated ego. And all the talk about stolen designs and patterns and what not is...
If you talk to him, he sounds as if his products are the best among all makers. He actually told me that Schott has been stealing his patterns, and the Japanese makers are basically fashion jackets for wannabes.
Just for laughs and giggles I will communicate with him and ask how much will the...
And if you want a custom made jacket from LW you get saddled with an extra 20% over the listed price which only covers the regular versions of his jackets. I wanted to order the downtown pattern for my son's 21st birthday next year but it'd cost around $2160+, as he is 6'8" 230lbs with monkey...
No, nothing like that. I asked him if it would be ok for me and my son to go over at his shop so that he could take our measurements himself, although we live in Maryland, but he was not very cooperative.
But I gotta admit that my son's test jacket is a real beast. He tells me that it fights...
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