How many new jackets do you have coming (and how many potential ones)?

[jpk_NJ]

Just got the shipping notification, my "new custom" Langlitz Crescent is on the way back from its Oregon repair/alteration journey. All 8 lbs of it! Crazy for a cafe racer, unless UPS scale was wrong. Pics to come next week

 

[nick123]

I had an email ready to go for a custom Barnstormer, then at the last minute changed the wording to "Bootlegger", added a mouton collar, then finally balked and paid my school fees. It will happen ONE DAY. I think the barnstormer is the jacket I long for, but unsure I'd wear it all that much. Welp.

 

[El Marro]

I had an email ready to go for a custom Barnstormer, then at the last minute changed the wording to "Bootlegger", added a mouton collar, then finally balked and paid my school fees. It will happen ONE DAY. I think the barnstormer is the jacket I long for, but unsure I'd wear it all that much. Welp.

I think the Bootlegger is much more practical for us California folk but I also know that if a jacket is calling you one day you will buy it!

 

[jpk_NJ]

I had an email ready to go for a custom Barnstormer, then at the last minute changed the wording to "Bootlegger", added a mouton collar, then finally balked and paid my school fees. It will happen ONE DAY. I think the barnstormer is the jacket I long for, but unsure I'd wear it all that much. Welp.

Better choice IMO. More versatile. I also longed for a Barnstormer, bought an amazing one in black FQHH, kept it for about a year before selling. I enjoy and wear various 3/4 styles but it was the double breasted look that just pushed it too far out of the norm ...for me. This drove me to buy my modified Blizzard without waistcoat. Still in my closet and classifieds, but kind of glad no takers on it yet.

 

[Mrfrown]

The Bates Highwayman is among the best crosszip MC jackets out there. I had one just like this. What size is this, let me know if the kidney panel is soft or has the cardboard in it

No time for pics yet but the kidney panel is indeed very stiff

 

[regius]

Haven’t read through all the posts after your follow up photo, but if the back is indeed like that with a center seam, it is not a Bates, it’s a Vanson.

 

[Mrfrown]

Had a few minutes to check it out and snap some quick fit pics

Fit feels fantastic if a touch long in the back.

Jacket also feels a bit dirty, zip is a little actually sticky, so a cleaning is in the future for sure.

The leather quality is amazing. Strong, supple, beautiful grain. Really cool jacket

 

[Monitor]

Had a few minutes to check it out and snap some quick fit pics

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Fit feels fantastic if a touch long in the back.

Jacket also feels a bit dirty, zip is a little actually sticky, so a cleaning is in the future for sure.

The leather quality is amazing. Strong, supple, beautiful grain. Really cool jacket

Can't see what any more money would get you that could top this jacket. Perfect in fit, construction and material.

 

[JMax]

Had a few minutes to check it out and snap some quick fit pics

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Fit feels fantastic if a touch long in the back.

Jacket also feels a bit dirty, zip is a little actually sticky, so a cleaning is in the future for sure.

The leather quality is amazing. Strong, supple, beautiful grain. Really cool jacket

Awesome. I need to wonder twins activate my search for a Bates. All else can wait. Looks perfect.

 

[Mrfrown]

@JMax Other than this one I’ve only seen a few Bates crosszips in 38, and that insanely priced straight zip similar to @ton312 ’s in a 40

@Monitor Thanks! It’s the first cross zip I’ve handled and I feel like I’m spending all my luck on jacket finds lol. Well almost. I did try on a Schott 626 but it was far too light for my taste and a size too large

 

[ton312]

Had a few minutes to check it out and snap some quick fit pics

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Fit feels fantastic if a touch long in the back.

Jacket also feels a bit dirty, zip is a little actually sticky, so a cleaning is in the future for sure.

The leather quality is amazing. Strong, supple, beautiful grain. Really cool jacket

Sweeeet!!!!

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Had a few minutes to check it out and snap some quick fit pics

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Fit feels fantastic if a touch long in the back.

Jacket also feels a bit dirty, zip is a little actually sticky, so a cleaning is in the future for sure.

The leather quality is amazing. Strong, supple, beautiful grain. Really cool jacket

That grin says it all. Congrats!

 

[navetsea]

serious kidney protection , great looking fit

 

[Mrfrown]

serious kidney protection , great looking fit

SUPER SERIOUS

Really the stiff kidney panel is the only thing I didn’t immediately like. Strikes me as the sorta thing that could come off as “cosplaying” being a biker.

But it doesn’t really bother me. I mean, I now have several motorcycle jackets, and I’ve never pretended to be something I’m not in them. Why should this one be different?

 

[Robbie79]

Had a few minutes to check it out and snap some quick fit pics

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Fit feels fantastic if a touch long in the back.

Jacket also feels a bit dirty, zip is a little actually sticky, so a cleaning is in the future for sure.

The leather quality is amazing. Strong, supple, beautiful grain. Really cool jacket

Really nice and perfect fit. Congrats!

 

[regius]

Had a few minutes to check it out and snap some quick fit pics

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Fit feels fantastic if a touch long in the back.

Jacket also feels a bit dirty, zip is a little actually sticky, so a cleaning is in the future for sure.

The leather quality is amazing. Strong, supple, beautiful grain. Really cool jacket

Correction: this is a Bates. Perfect fit! Bates is one of those pattern that has a “universal fit” lol

 

[regius]

SUPER SERIOUS

Really the stiff kidney panel is the only thing I didn’t immediately like. Strikes me as the sorta thing that could come off as “cosplaying” being a biker.

But it doesn’t really bother me. I mean, I now have several motorcycle jackets, and I’ve never pretended to be something I’m not in them. Why should this one be different?

The kidney panel has a cardboard in it, paper cardboard. I usually remove mine.

 

[regius]

Just receive a batch of this amazing veg tanned goat, this is Shinki level goat. Far superior than any solid colored A2 goat to date, this is a 200 year old tannery and has more likely supplies to WW2 makers. It’s crisp and jerky to the touch, has a brilliant russet base with dark top, so it’s two tone already. Should echo well with small trim of black goat.

 

[Mrfrown]

The kidney panel has a cardboard in it, paper cardboard. I usually remove mine.

Thought you were joking about that in the earlier post. How do you take it out?

Just receive a batch of this amazing veg tanned goat, this is Shinki level goat. Far superior than any solid colored A2 goat to date, this is a 200 year old tannery and has more likely supplies to WW2 makers. It’s crisp and jerky to the touch, has a brilliant russet base with dark top, so it’s two tone already. Should echo well with small trim of black goat.

WOAH. That’s some beautiful hide. What do you plan to do with it? An A2? And how do you take it from hide to completed jacket?

 

[regius]

Thought you were joking about that in the earlier post. How do you take it out?
I actually have sent my Bates to Johnson to take it out while doing other stuff.


WOAH. That’s some beautiful hide. What do you plan to do with it? An A2? And how do you take it from hide to completed jacket?