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  1. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    I know, but I just like helping out a new guy. I almost can't help myself. Doesn't matter one bit that the style isn't my cup of tea, I just want to see Zangy get something close to what he's hoping for, and help him avoid mistakes out of inexperience.
  2. Guppy

    Seen the new BMW horsehide jacket?

    I thought you might have meant that after I posted. I doubt it's cordovan. It's most likely front quarter horsehide. Who tanned it, I have no idea. Whoever made it for BMW would know.
  3. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    I see side entrances for handwarmer pockets behind the A-2-ish patch pockets in the video stills. I think it's like a cross between a barn coat/chore coat and a field jacket.
  4. Guppy

    Seen the new BMW horsehide jacket?

    Cordura is a synthetic fiber, I believe it's a type of nylon. Not leather.
  5. Guppy

    Vanson Maverick

    Fit looks excellent. If you wanted looser to layer under, maybe too fitted, but I couldn't find complaint with how it looks on you.
  7. Guppy

    WTB Gustin #6 multi color wool CPO L/XL

    Bump.
  8. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    They would ban your account if they were going to ban you. This site doesn't always have the best uptime, there are sometimes outages. It doesn't seem that there's an outage now. But your behavior has been fine, there's no reason they'd take any action against you, at least from what I have...
  9. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    You can always ask them to create a pattern test jacket in a cheap fabric first, or even paper, then tweak anything that you want adjusted, before having it done for real. That's probably the better way to go about it.
  10. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    It almost looks to me like the jacket is padded, perhaps with a quilted lining, or that the actor is wearing something bulky under it (perhaps to offset how over-sized it is? Or perhaps just to make the actor look bigger and more menacing?) It's all but certainly an off the rack item from...
  11. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    That one is close enough that if the size works for the OP, it'd be the best way to go, in my opinion. It'd save you a lot of time and money. I also think Monitor's initial advice was misplaced, and I am glad that he softened his stance and apologized and has tried to be helpful in guiding you...
  13. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    I don't think modding an existing jacket produces good results, unless the modifications are tiny. Anything that would involve adding new panels requires matching leather to what's there, and that's all but impossible to do. I would suggest modifying the existing design to produce a new jacket...
  14. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    Very early on in my jacket hobby journey, I happened to pick up this Schott jacket. It's a size 46, but the measurements were close enough that I could wear it even if it was labeled two sizes bigger than I normally would wear. It was roomy but it worked. It was a model 146, and was a...
  15. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    That's very typical of the 90s fashions. They borrowed elements from different types of designs and mashed them up. To purists who like the originals they borrowed from, it's something like a Frankenstein's monster. If the original designs were built to a purpose, the amalgam of different...
  16. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    There's not much difference. They're both bovine leather, same species of animal. Bulls might have slightly thicker skin than cows, but it gets split down anyway to whatever thickness is ordered. Steer hide will have less stretch marks than cow, around the belly, but that's only if the...
  17. Guppy

    Pecard query

    I don't think it'll hurt anything. I've used it on newer leather and saw no ill effects. It really softened up some stiff CXL for me.
  19. Guppy

    FS: Vanson Model E Highwayman, Comp. Weight, 44, Detachable collar

    How much for just a belt? I could maybe use a belt to go with my C2...
  20. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    There's not much difference. They're both bovine leather, same species of animal. Bulls might have slightly thicker skin than cows, but it gets split down anyway to whatever thickness is ordered. Steer hide will have less stretch marks than cow, around the belly, but that's only if the...
  21. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    1) The only reason to consider fake leather is to get it made as cheaply as possible because you don't intend to wear it for more than a year. 2) It's really impossible to say, but my best guess from the photos is that it's a fairly heavy weight cowhide. Most leather jackets are cowhide, unless...
  22. Guppy

    Not so happy experience with Vanson repair

    If you have the quote in writing, they should honor it. If they determined once it arrived that they could not do the work at the quoted price, they should have communicated with you the options, proceed at the new price, or return unaltered.
  23. Guppy

    Can someone please help me find this type of leather jacket?

    Your opinion is entirely valid.

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