Have a look at this, and honestly please help me! Dave has sent me some pics of some zippers, some of you big brained machines can help me. What should I choose? Protein, your a fellow Aussie, sorry for hijacking your thread mate! Help me help you! Sorry guys, I'm not used to this kid of attention to detail, or customer care for that matter. I feel like a bit of a dummy. Poor Dave is holding my hand and giving me an education, what do you guts think?
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I don't think what you posted here is actually a "choice" these are the whole zipper kit, the first one is the main zipper, the diamond and chains ones are the chest pocket zippers, the other short ones are the sleeve zippers.
From what i understood placing my order you can choose either brass, or nickel.
He also offers vintage NOS zippers, but recommended the repro zippers to me, saying they were stronger.
I wouldn't sweat it, just decide if you prefer brass or nickel. Some people prefer one or the other depending on leather color... I only have black jackets, some with brass, some with nickel, both look good.
On a brown leather i think i might prefer brass, but it is a personal choice.
I just ordered a black shinki j100 and went with nickel.
is it a brown jacket, or the brown zipper band would be accent on a black jacket?
I think he uses brown tape zipper either way.
Look at the pictures of the original in this thread, black jacket, brown tape:
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?75051-Any-original-Buco-J-100-experts
Its worth asking, my first 2 jackets both had black tape, the most recent in Shinki had brown.
Ahh, one week away. That must be killing you!
Well, it landed in Sydney this morning (Sunday) so its up to customs now...could be a day, could be a week lol
Are they all Shinki horsehide?Got this from Dave, he has some samples in the post for me, but he mailed me this pic to get a bit of a comparison re colours....they all look red hot....will have to wait until the actual samples arrive to go to the next level, but this gives me some perspective. Then I need to match it up with zipper the/ hardware, and I'm thinking of a funky stitching colour for a bit more detail. The last DD jacket I hot have really tight, straight stitching, perfect for a contract thread. I think it shows the quality of his work off.
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