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  1. Kt Templar

    Custom made Indy jacket

    No, but I have been to China and the same model applies. Ironically with the increase in the local wages and inflation in China they may be becoming too expensive for the 'West' to keep manufacturing there. You get the same product, it's just more expensive! So many companies are looking to the...
  2. Kt Templar

    Custom made Indy jacket

    One aspect that we often ignore is the specific tax burden certain countries shoulder. ie how much of your income disappears into the govt's pocket before you get hold of it. This includes all taxes, ie VAT and property.community taxes. In the UK that is 40+%, in India it's 20%...
  3. Kt Templar

    Custom made Indy jacket

    Although that is a possibility. Low prices also reflect local price and wage structures. You cannot immediately assume that someone suffered in the process. The flip side is, someone is employed where otherwise they might not be and they might be far better off than they would have been without...
  4. Kt Templar

    Custom made Indy jacket

    I've done some research into this. From Peter at Wested and from a couple of academic sources in the production of leather. The leather used in Raiders was a rough and ready merino type sheep leather, this has the characteristic 'ribby' texture to some of the panels, 'ribby' is considered a...
  5. Kt Templar

    Dating adventurebilts by liner

    This one is possibly from the run of 100 or so rabbits he did. He was making them around the time that his involvement in Crystal Skull came to light so around 2006-2007. You got a really good deal.
  7. Kt Templar

    Bill Kelso A2 Jacket

    Finally took some pics with it on. Possibly ordered slightly too short... by an inch or so?
  8. Kt Templar

    Bill Kelso A2 Jacket

    I got one recently too. Been busy scrunching and kneading it to soften it. VERY nice jacket.
  9. Kt Templar

    Bill Kelso A2 Jacket

    A little easier if the jackets are horsehide, but goat and lamb skins for jackets have real problems with sizes over 48. Indy jacket makers keep getting it in the neck from the 50+ talls who want lamb... sorry mate try GMing them first!
  10. Kt Templar

    Show us your vintage half-belts

    Thank you that about zeros it in, it's in pretty good nick for a 60 year old jacket. :)
  11. Kt Templar

    Show us your vintage half-belts

    Here is the main zipper: Pocket zipper:
  13. Kt Templar

    Show us your vintage half-belts

    Thanks folks. The last piece is both the chest pocket zipper and the main one are Talons.
  14. Kt Templar

    Show us your vintage half-belts

    Here's the label. Sadly whilst the chest, shoulders and arms fit, my stomach is too big and it is very tight when zipped. :(
  15. Kt Templar

    Show us your vintage half-belts

    Any idea how old it might be?
  16. Kt Templar

    Harrington Baracuta makers?

    Too much like a Nation Front website for me. Won't be getting my money. Shame, looks quite a nice jacket.
  17. Kt Templar

    Current issue RAF Mk.3 Cold Weather Flying Jacket

    Here's a link to a site selling them new. https://www.transair.co.uk/product4.asp?SID=2&Product_ID=8998 There is a sizing chart for reference, they often sell for a lot less on ebay, used.
  19. Kt Templar

    New "inexpensive" A2 aero/billkelso or other sugestions ?

    That is a shame. If someone wanted to visit a jacket maker, I would have thought that they'd be honoured.
  20. Kt Templar

    Jacket sleeve length "rules of thumb"?

    Weirdly, I haven't had a knit cuff on a jacket since I was about 14. I've always thought of them as being a bit hot and scratchy. I really love the barrel cuff on the Indy jacket but it must be the right size for the wearer, even if it has to be tailored to fit.
  21. Kt Templar

    Jacket sleeve length "rules of thumb"?

    Ron I agree, to where your thumb joins your hand feels a good spot for an open cuff jacket. But where to measure for an A2 style? Do you measure the leather and where should *that* stop if so?
  22. Kt Templar

    Jimi Hendrix Hussar pelisse

    Mate, they just added your name into the OED definition of extrovert!
  23. Kt Templar

    jacket ribbing

    That must have been really nice soap! LOL!

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