Finished this cross zip for a lady friend. Overall improving and learned some critical lessons...The lining material is more premium than the hide. The hide is the same that Schott uses, Italian smooth horse. Lining is Harris.
The feeling you get from personally realizing your own vision, out of your own hands, is definitely the sublime kind. We've seen this saying a lot in start up businesses, that the founder does it because he/she can't find what suits them so they decided to do it themselves, this is almost a...
Thanks guys, really appreciate the support. I’m mostly self-taught while had a lady who got me started but she shortly developed breast cancer and we lost touch. The thing is (around where I am) nobody has experience or interest in making leather jackets, the dry cleaner ladies could provide...
Finished this concept jacket at last, a combination of Horween metropolitan and Italian steerhide. Blue twill lining, red duck pockets and some studs. NOS Talon front zipper
what I just noticed was actually (in the first photos, top left), the insertion positions of the two belts are not of the same height?! I guess that's the epitome of an asymmetrical leather jacket ;)
Looks like some would puncture two holes but some would insert the pin through the stitching of the sweatband. One of my hats has a glued band so I guess this one I’ll have to make two holes...
Question: Chin Strap? I don’t think chin strap is a common component on western hats? The high quality ones almost never have chin strap...but, practically, for horse riding and (well, watching Hateful Eight), they all have chin strap and it’s hard to imagine how the hat stay on without it?
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