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  1. Carlos840

    Breaking in a Horween Schott Jacket P613S

    Let's call it 6lb... Honestly Horween CXL isn't that heavy or that hard to break in. I own 3 CXL jackets and they sit somewhere in the middle of my collection as far as weight /thickness goes. The fact that it is a waxy leather makes it feel more rigid and crunchy when it is new, but it also...
  2. Carlos840

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    You should try moving somewhere else to take your pictures. If the subject is dark (black leather jacket) and the background is bright (your white house) the sensor in the camera is really going to struggle finding a setting that can correctly expose both the subject and the background. Doing...
  3. Carlos840

    do you dare to commit to wear a single jacket for a month through all your waking hours?

    This is a commando, great deal too...
  4. Carlos840

    Ordered Schott buffalo jacket and received cowhide!

    My only experience with Buffalo is a gig bag, it has great grain and looks good. Thickness wise, it really depends what Schott specifies the thickness to be... All hides we talk about are much thicker straight from the animal and are split to desired thickness before use. Schott isn't known for...
  5. Carlos840

    Aero Goatskin. Does it build a patina?

    You can have patina on wooden furniture, on stone surfaces, on leather, patina isn't limited to metals... I would say patina is dirt buildup/natural polishing/fading created from use. Creases to me are part of the break in process, i agree though that they have nothing to do with patina.
  7. Carlos840

    My leather jacket database.

    https://www.leather-dictionary.com/index.php/Wet_blue
  8. Carlos840

    Himel Brothers-Arcane Secrets Of Leather

    If we can get it done with LW i already know of two volunteers to do it... Not sure how many we would need to be for it to work.
  9. Carlos840

    Himel Brothers-Arcane Secrets Of Leather

    It wasn't mine, i actually got to try Red Devil's jacket. There is a huge difference between the 3.5oz and the 5oz moose. The moose has a more interesting less uniform grain, i think i remember it as more matte, and mostly it has a really nice density/weight to it. It moves on you as if it was...
  10. Carlos840

    What jeans are you wearing today ?

    Much better IMO, the higher cuffs where a bit piraty...
  11. Carlos840

    Himel Brothers-Arcane Secrets Of Leather

    I tried that 5oz moosehide jacket and it is AMAZING. It is the nicest feeling jacket you can imagine, it's like a big heavy wet blanket, it feels like a leather hug. I was not a fan of the deer, it felt a bit thin and underwhelming to me, but that moose is magical.
  13. Carlos840

    What jeans are you wearing today ?

    Try a lower cuff maybe? I don't like a cuff that shows the bottom boot strap, i like to still get a bit of stacking when i cuff:
  14. Carlos840

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    You two could just go beast mode and lift the people in your house...
  15. Carlos840

    POLL: Which jacket do you like more?

    Two different shades of green at the same time! What are you trying to do to me? My eyes! But seriously though, that jacket looks much cooler worn than it does unworn. I also really like the fact that the green stripes are stitched in tan thread but the rest of the jacket uses black thread...
  16. Carlos840

    New Aero Designs

    Agreed on the patch pockets, they are only good to store flat things in, it feels like if you try to use them like real pockets they would just tear off. Saying that it looks like these pockets have a real pocket bag rather than the usual A2 way of doing it , that should make them much more usable.
  17. Carlos840

    New Aero Designs

    Looks like battered tan to me.
  19. Carlos840

    My early D pocket

    That second to last picture is interesting, it almost looks like the horizontal part of the pocket at the top was cut too wide on the right side and then stitched back.
  20. Carlos840

    My leather jacket database.

    I know, it feels a bit like going full circle. LW was one of the first makers i really wanted to get into, but because of his weird website i avoided it for years. The "no return on Long sizes" policy, the general prose and looks of the site and the fact that Stuart doesn't lke to give...
  21. Carlos840

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

    I have similar pocket flaps on my AA, i think they look very cool. Even with leather it's not problem getting your hand in and out.
  22. Carlos840

    POLL: Which jacket do you like more?

    IMO green is reserved for edible things, hunters, maybe cars if it is British racing green, but that's it...
  23. Carlos840

    Face Masks And other DIY projects

    Why do we need pictures of yellow plastic jackets in threads about "leather creasing, fading, and character" and pictures of char siu pork in threads about face masks? I'm all for a good thread derail once in a while but this is confusing...
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