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As I said, I like the look of the LW jackets, not seen a bad one yet. But the website just screams 1999, it badly needs updating. My 14 year old daughter can code a better site than that !
As I said, I like the look of the LW jackets, not seen a bad one yet. But the website just screams 1999, it badly needs updating. My 14 year old daughter can code a better site than that !
Makes Stu's site look state of the art:As I said, I like the look of the LW jackets, not seen a bad one yet. But the website just screams 1999, it badly needs updating. My 14 year old daughter can code a better site than that !
While I like the JL jackets a lot, and have two of them, I think Aero has a better selection of top end hides. The CXL they get from Horween is really nice, especially in the brown. And the seal Vicenza, from what I have seen from Carrie's posts, really knocks me out. I just don't think those two hides will be topped anytime soon. Unfortunately I don't think JL has a channel for them.
I guess I mentioned "Aero" since I know their work to be of the highest quality. It occurs to me that I might find something local. Are there recommendations for something in the New York area? Schott is here, but I don't think that they do custom work. BTW, I don't think that Aero offers 'roo any longer. This pic, posted by Lemon328i is of an Aero Roo jacket with a wonderful color:
I think they are called Battered Tan and Battered Seal.
Is he really that "strange"?
If I was interested in one of his jackets should I aproach carefully?
Makes Stu's site look state of the art:
http://www.passaicleather.com/
To the best of my understanding, the specific Horween Chromexel FQHH that Aero use isn't avaialble anywhere else. They do sell other treatments of FQHH to other makers, but the stuff Aero get is tanned in a very specific process that doesn't go elsewhere. I'm sure Denny or Holly could put us right on that if they're about, though.
I was watchingh developments with the Roo myself as I gather it can be a fantastic hide forf Summer wear. Last I gathered, Aero had decided not to put itg into their standard rotation because it wasn't available in big enough quantities. I think the closest hide in terms of properties to the Roo is probably their veg-tanned goat.
They are indeed.
Stuart has..... a unique approach to customer service, and a very clear vision about what makes a quality leather jacket. For him, it's allabout the heavy hides - I know one of his repeat buyers once asked whether he might have a lighter hide for a less heavy jacket (for warmer weather, really) - Stu's response was simply "Perhaps you just aren't manly enough for one of our jackets." Personally, I've always leaned to the opinion that someone that obssessed with being manly clearly has some sort of psychological hang-up, but there you go. Plenty of folks are happy to buy what Lost Worlds has to offer - at least enough to keep them in business. The product from them I have seen (and owned - my B3 is Lost Worlds, though I purchased second hand from a collector) is first rate, excellent stuff. Prohibitively expensive to buy from the UK now (especially withy the pound in the toilet these days), but all other things being equal, as good as any other premium maker. If you want what he has to offer stock and aren't put off by the website, I certainly can't fault the quality of his product that I've seen.
Once you're into the premium makers in general, it becomes as much about whether you like the house style and the particular way they do business as anything else.
To the best of my understanding, the specific Horween Chromexel FQHH that Aero use isn't avaialble anywhere else. They do sell other treatments of FQHH to other makers, but the stuff Aero get is tanned in a very specific process that doesn't go elsewhere. I'm sure Denny or Holly could put us right on that if they're about, though.