Freewheelers Horsehide Tear - Repair Recommendations

[tmitchell59]

honestly this was just an unfortunate freak accident; doesnt matter if it was 1 or 10 or 80 years old, that panel was a counting down to its inevitable failure.

That sound about right. I am most interested to hear what a repair person says about the failure and how they will repair the damage. Please up date us on the outcome.

 

[DorKlonn]

That sound about right. I am most interested to hear what a repair person says about the failure and how they will repair the damage. Please up date us on the outcome.

I definitely will, until then; enough about broken jackets, I think yall will enjoy how my other jacket is starting to take shape and take on a life of its own. Here's a well loved (and heavily worn) Real Mccoy's "Flight Jacket" that they did in collaboration with The Armoury.

 

[willyto]

I definitely will, until then; enough about broken jackets, I think yall will enjoy how my other jacket is starting to take shape and take on a life of its own. Here's a well loved (and heavily worn) Real Mccoy's "Flight Jacket" that they did in collaboration with The Armoury.

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I think that's the first jacket from The Armoury collaboration that I actually see broken in or worn. I always see photos of it new and stiff, not even a single crease on the sleeves which makes me question what do their owners do with their jackets.

Almost looks like some only wear them for a photoshoot for the Instagram and put it aside.

 

[DorKlonn]

Hi all! The jacket has arrived back to me, and I gave it about 2 weeks as I slowly applied some vaseline onto it as it was indeed pretty dry. However Dena has done a masterful repair and the results speak for it as I feel no loss of mobility or restriction, and feeling around the lining of the jacket I can barely feel the patch that is added on the shoulder. Dena was worried that her turn around time was gonna be pretty long, and quoted me 3 weeks, however it came done in about two weeks which was a nice surprise. The prices were incredibly reasonable, I truly recommend her work to anyone in the forum; the word around town does not lie about how good she is.

This is the repair done in her own words:
"I opened the double stitching, glued the edges of the tear together, then glued a piece of very tough, but not too thick leather to the back of the sleeve area. I then tucked that section behind the body stitch line just enough to catch the sleeve beyond the tear, and stitched it back together. So the stitching is catching the touch piece anchor. I did a little more than this but this is what you need to know.
It should be very secure but the leather itself is a little dry and the stitches are very short (so lots of holes). So... if the jacket is tight I wouldn't stress it with a bulky hoodie underneath, or such. But the area I fixed should not be the area that would tear."

This is the repaired side:


This is the original gusset, as you can tell, the repaired side has a slightly shorter distance between the panels, however it is barely noticeable and doesn't affect the mobility of the bi swing arms.


Jacket after a healthy few coats of vaseline:

 

[dwilson]

Great repair job. You'd never known the jacket had work done to it.

 

[Carlos840]

Hi all! The jacket has arrived back to me, and I gave it about 2 weeks as I slowly applied some vaseline onto it as it was indeed pretty dry. However Dena has done a masterful repair and the results speak for it as I feel no loss of mobility or restriction, and feeling around the lining of the jacket I can barely feel the patch that is added on the shoulder. Dena was worried that her turn around time was gonna be pretty long, and quoted me 3 weeks, however it came done in about two weeks which was a nice surprise. The prices were incredibly reasonable, I truly recommend her work to anyone in the forum; the word around town does not lie about how good she is.

This is the repair done in her own words:
"I opened the double stitching, glued the edges of the tear together, then glued a piece of very tough, but not too thick leather to the back of the sleeve area. I then tucked that section behind the body stitch line just enough to catch the sleeve beyond the tear, and stitched it back together. So the stitching is catching the touch piece anchor. I did a little more than this but this is what you need to know.
It should be very secure but the leather itself is a little dry and the stitches are very short (so lots of holes). So... if the jacket is tight I wouldn't stress it with a bulky hoodie underneath, or such. But the area I fixed should not be the area that would tear."

This is the repaired side:
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This is the original gusset, as you can tell, the repaired side has a slightly shorter distance between the panels, however it is barely noticeable and doesn't affect the mobility of the bi swing arms.
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Jacket after a healthy few coats of vaseline:
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Glad this story finishes with a happy ending.
No more flexing in that jacket...

 

[dudewuttheheck]

It looks like she did a fantastic job! The jacket looks incredible.

 

[ton312]

That's as good a result as one could possibly hope for! Nice! Dena has my windward now and I'm eager to see what's become of it. I love her work. She is incredibly meticulous.

 

[AeroFan_07]

Dena rocks!! She has done a lining and a zipper for me, and I have another one to take to her for a zipper presently.

 

[willyto]

Congratulations!

Such a great job

 

[Terminator]

Happy it worked out for you!

 

[Terminator]

By the way, I agreed that’s the nicer example of the RMC for the Armoury I’ve seen. I’d love to see one of these come up in my size!