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  1. Short Balding Guy

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Yesterday's outside chores had hard working in a Tilley. When I got really hot I dunked it into water. No worse for the wear. This morning was it was a black Warren for a dog soiree. A morning walkabout in an un-lined Stetson Playboy. Not the usual ribbon treatment, but all...
  2. technovox

    New jacket: Aero Sheene crossed with Aero Highwayman

    ...no grain at all. If I were to order again, I definitely would request grainy. Consequently, I’ve put the jacket through the hot water treatment, or rather more of a cold water treatment, to speed up the wear and give it some character. I soak it, and then instead of putting it in a dryer, I...
  3. J

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    ...looked it up. It's very uniform grain, I think it has a finished top coat too because it repelled water well when I did the hot water treatment to shape the collar. Got it, I'll confirm with Shawn at five star. That's a bummer if it's printed, I still quite like it to be honest but if it is...
  4. J

    Blowdryer + conditioner on Lost Worlds leather (before, during, after)

    Haven't owned a jacket long enough to think about conditioning treatment but that hide does look terrific. Thanks for sharing.
  5. El Marro

    Picture request: AGED Aero Midnight Blue CXFQHH

    ...2016. The color of this leather is much more steely gray then the true blue of the last couple batches I have not worn the jacket much but I did subject it to hot water treatment early on and so there are some areas where the top coat is wearing off and it is a lovely bronzed brown underneath.
  7. steur

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    It's rare we see you in a black hat, Eric. I like it, but then I like the unlined Stetson even better.
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  8. ai00344

    New jacket: Aero Sheene crossed with Aero Highwayman

    Great jacket man. You wear it well
  9. Daze

    What is the Hot Water Treatment and How to do it for Flying Jackets?

    What is the Hot Water Treatment and How to do it for Flying Jackets? I've seen it mentioned but not sure how it's done, I have a pair of jackets, Irvin and B3 copies and they are both incredible bulky, so would like to shrink the pile a bit
  10. jacketjunkie

    Blattwerk Leather - HELP!

    Get a bottle of leather conditioner, something like Lexol or Pecards and apply it on the jacket, in like large amounts. Did you try the hot water treatment or what happened?
  11. deswaaf

    Blowdryer + conditioner on Lost Worlds leather (before, during, after)

    The picture above is before any treatment. More about this jacket: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/fit-pics-lost-worlds-suburban-42l-grainy-4-5-oz-fqhh.101666/ Let me begin by saying that I read a lot of advice against doing this, that the leather used by LW supposedly won't need any...
  13. Marc mndt

    red devil fit checks & evolution

    Beautiful jacket. I didn't expect it to darken that much, looks great though. This jacket (and HD's jackets) inspired me to order one. Yours is buffalo leather right? How does it compare to horsehide? Is it heavier, does it age differently?
  14. North_Star

    red devil fit checks & evolution

    I love those LWs but look at that Thedi! The fit, the hide, the everything seems spot on perfect!
  15. R

    red devil fit checks & evolution

    And from here we go on to the other "could have been an exit jacket", and it is the the tan Buffalo from Thedi! It is not my first Thedi though, that honour goes to the grey CR covered earlier in this thread. This jacket was a bit tight at first, then loosened up to be comfortable when I was...
  16. ton312

    How many new jackets do you have coming (and how many potential ones)?

    Actually it's not too complicated, the collar has snaps underneath that attach to the body of the jacket...when undone and with a little hot water treatment I think it'll spread out all by itself. This is the same jacket in black:
  17. W

    Blowdryer + conditioner on Lost Worlds leather (before, during, after)

    Your time of 4 hours is in good agreement with another post I remember of applying Pecards Leather Dressing, which I believe has similar composition and consistency to the Grand National leather cream. That was 6 hours, working the dressing into the leather by hand, using heat of fingers and...
  19. D

    How many new jackets do you have coming (and how many potential ones)?

    Neat. So wetting relaxes the leather, and its weight spreads it out a little all by itself? No need to, say, fix the collar in a spread position to 'force' it to spread?
  20. steur

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Another unknown brand (to me at least), but those can often be the nicest finds. Looks good, Joe. Very nice, Brent. Perfection, Fabio. It certainly deserves better. Man, what a hat! The blue binding is all summer to my eye, Michael. Killing it with the straws, Mark!
  21. Edward

    Tried searching but no luck. Best Wallet Recommendations?

    Might be worth trying to put that one, empty, under some very heavy books for a bit. Flattening it enough might put back some of the 'tightness' (I know what I'm trying to articulate here - I'm not doing it well, I hope you follow). Alternatively - hot water treatment? ;)
  22. R

    New Standard & Strange X Simmons Bilt Natural Horsehide Jacket

    You're not it aware of the latest research? Due to the properties of natural leather of absorbing everything it is subjected to and displaying it as a story, it has been found that salt water treatment in Hawaï makes it compatible with flip flops. So it is your ticket to the only jacket that...
  23. MRB1248

    Blattwerk Leather - HELP!

    Hey, thanks for the replay. Sorry I didn’t respond earlier, ended up having to actually work for my paycheck. I’ll try the conditioner again. I did it once follright after I got caught in the rain. I didn’t wear it dry, I draped it over a chair and when it was finally dry it was like armor.

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