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  1. Carlos840

    Help! Vinegar Spots from Smoke Treatment

    Yep, if you live in an area with really hard water i would use distilled water. When i lived in london and did that the tap water was so hard it left a white film behind after drying.
  2. Carlos840

    Help! Vinegar Spots from Smoke Treatment

    Get a spray bottle, spray the jacket all over and wear it untill dry, repeat a few times. IMO the shower is a bit excessive, you risk soaking the lining and creating more stains. Soaking is not bad, but it's not necessary...
  3. Carlos840

    Help! Vinegar Spots from Smoke Treatment

    My point was just that the nature of natural leather is that they end up all blotchy when you actually wear them and live with them rather than look at them hanging in a wardrobe. If the OP wears his jacket it will in time end up all blotchy like the one posted in the thread i linked. The neck...
  4. Carlos840

    Help! Vinegar Spots from Smoke Treatment

    I would just wear the jacket in the rain, you will get randome blotches everywhere once you start wearing it anyway! I would not add more products to it, it's just going to make things worst. Wear it in the rain 10 times and it won't be noticeable anymore. Check out the pics in this thread...
  5. Carlos840

    BESOIN D'AIDE LOST WORLDS LEATHER POUR LA MOTO!

    I'm 188cm and 88kg, 42" chest, i wear a size 42 both in LT/A and LT/B. The LT/A is definitely tighter fitting than the LT/B, i can wear the B with a thick jumper, the A is a T shirt jacket for me. After seeing your pics i wouldn't recommend going with a size 44 for any model, unless you are...
  7. Carlos840

    which jacket do you prefer? please vote!

    To me the ELMC is trying too hard. Every single pic of that jacket looks like the wearer is trying his hardest to be a badass and failing, it looks like a costume not a casual wear jacket. I like the RAF hooded one best.
  8. Carlos840

    My leather jacket database.

    I have never felt the need to buy a FH jacket because i have never found them impressive. I handled a few in the Rivet and Hide store in London and to me they felt like poor value for money. I don't like the stitching style, i am not a fan of Shinki and disliked the specific one they used, and...
  9. Carlos840

    Hooked on jackets? Why?

    The whole "completing sets" thing is weird and interresting, i do it too and i am not sure why. I had a time where i was literally collecting vintage spanners cause the hunting of missing sizes and completion of sets was so satisfying to me. Needing to have an item i like in every single colour...
  10. Carlos840

    Hooked on jackets? Why?

    IMO what you describe: "It would be addiction if we were to compulsively buy & hoard on any & all leather jackets available, with no planning, use or purpose" is exactly what i was doing with LW and Vanson Jackets. It was hidden by the classic "i am studying jackets and their history", but deep...
  11. Carlos840

    Hooked on jackets? Why?

    Trust me it can be... The fact that one can be organised and clever about it doesn't mean it isn't an addiction. Addiction isn't always a total loss of controle. And the fact that you don't consider it an addiction personally doesn't mean it can't be for somebody else. To me it is 100% a side...
  13. Carlos840

    Hooked on jackets? Why?

    To me it's some sort of hunting/gathering thing, it was jackets for a decade, now i am back into musical gear, before that it was something else, i did it when i was a kid with rocks, coins and stamps, tools in my teenage years, musical instruments in my 20s, jackets in my 30s, right now i am...
  14. Carlos840

    Boiled wool mittens

    I have worn these: https://www.climbers-shop.com/clothing/gloves-and-mitts/dachstein-mitts__1377025 They are warm as F, they where used by everest climbers etc, not really necessary for everyday life. In the end, they are just warmer because they have more wool content, ie they are shrunk to...
  15. Carlos840

    Vintage Schott-Beck Motorcycle Jackets

    "I had assumed that the additional workmanship such as the French seams was something Beck had specially requested for their own-labeled jackets. Indeed the presence of French seams led some people to suggest they couldn't have been made by Schott." Didn't all the early perfectos with double...
  16. Carlos840

    Zipper fray

    Some zippers are like that, i don't have pics at hand, but some FW jackets have zippers where the entire male part is metal. Other makers add a reinforcement, LW for example sews a little strip of fabrick onto the tape at that exact area to strengthen it. I think it's like everything, more...
  17. Carlos840

    Is this Horse Hide from 5 *?

    I'm glad you went full circle with them. I remember having discussion with RD wondering if you had gone mad, telling ourselves that these jackets looked obviously cheap but not wanting to poop in your cereals... Coming back to a "sane" Tony is great!
  19. Carlos840

    Which Flat Head back design looks better?

    Here, to me what we are seeing in current Japanese leather jackets is this vibe applied to leather:
  20. Carlos840

    Is this Horse Hide from 5 *?

    As @ton312 said, at that point it makes no difference whether it is horse or cow, it is printed crap...
  21. Carlos840

    Which Flat Head back design looks better?

    Agreed, that's why i also mentioned Japanese fashion aesthetics, i think it's a combination of the two. I think these shapes are more recent in Japanese leather brands, when we first started talking about Japanese brands 10 years ago it wasn't that common. I might be wrong, but i don't remember...
  22. Carlos840

    Which Flat Head back design looks better?

    It doesn't excuse everything, but there is definitely a difference in shoulder width between the average Japanese man and the average American and that has to have an influence on pattern differences:
  23. Carlos840

    Which Flat Head back design looks better?

    Ok, trained but out of practice...

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