DiamondDave
Vendor
- Messages
- 97
- Location
- Diamond Cap Co.Tulsa, OK
Gents,
I was just last Friday ordering some new HH, and in speaking with my supplier in Maine, I asked why this last batch was so heavy and what it was being produced for. He answered "For the US Air Force" and I said... "ahem, excuse me?" He went on to tell me that the USAF has gone back to the use of both cow and HH in large production runs of the type A-2 jacket.
Apparently too many companies in the US were having trouble with sourcing goatskin, while keeping in line with the rules of the Berry Amendment. As such, the AF went back to HH as well as cow, but both to be done to the same standard and in the same flat mid brown color. The hides in question are also mandated to be semi-aniline and finished with the pigment, so that the resulting underside looks very much like what Real McCoys gets from Shinki. This stuff is GREAT... almost as heavy as the Shinki, but in a flat pigment finish. Just a little modification to my sewing practices, and a color nudge, and this stuff is gonna be GOLDEN for my uses. Perhaps even for the uses of some of my fellow jacket makers as well.
That is all the news that is fit to report from the DOD these days.
Ciao for now,
DD
I was just last Friday ordering some new HH, and in speaking with my supplier in Maine, I asked why this last batch was so heavy and what it was being produced for. He answered "For the US Air Force" and I said... "ahem, excuse me?" He went on to tell me that the USAF has gone back to the use of both cow and HH in large production runs of the type A-2 jacket.
Apparently too many companies in the US were having trouble with sourcing goatskin, while keeping in line with the rules of the Berry Amendment. As such, the AF went back to HH as well as cow, but both to be done to the same standard and in the same flat mid brown color. The hides in question are also mandated to be semi-aniline and finished with the pigment, so that the resulting underside looks very much like what Real McCoys gets from Shinki. This stuff is GREAT... almost as heavy as the Shinki, but in a flat pigment finish. Just a little modification to my sewing practices, and a color nudge, and this stuff is gonna be GOLDEN for my uses. Perhaps even for the uses of some of my fellow jacket makers as well.
That is all the news that is fit to report from the DOD these days.
Ciao for now,
DD
