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My custom LePera Outcast seat is awesome.
I think an angled pocket is the way to go, it gives a much more interesting look to the jacket. Also, I would see about getting a Talon ball and chain, or a diamond pull, or something similar for the chest pocket zipper. The plain old yKK zipper sticking straight out the side with a leather fob attached is very dull.
I am having a custom "Brando" style jacket made in 4oz black overdye.
I only had 1 experience with a naked hide. I had a Fox Creek vest. I never treated it or conditioned it with anything. It really soaked up the water and took forever to dry out. Plus the sun faded the black to a grey. I probably should have taken better care of it. Naked hide is very comfortable straight from the box, as you know. Can't wait to see it.
I found out from Tony at Honcho Boots my month out custom Honcho cowboy boots in brown “horse butt” are actually made of horween cxl horsehide. And I thought the 385 Usd price tag for custom all leather el paso TX made boots was good before. Wow.
I received shipping notification from JL hopefully it is my re-sleeved chp and also the fit Jacket m200. Damon was going to include a sample of brown 3.5 oz cxl horse they have in stock.
Lol now has me leaning back to brown cxl HH 3.5 oz to match my new boots
Everybody needs at least one cordovan jacket in their repertoire. Mine is a cordovan Bootlegger that I rarely wear but when I do it always draws a compliment.I'm also having 2nd thoughts about the overdye as I'm lusting for a cordovan recently lol
Yeah on their IG that burgundy looks really nice. They put out a few half belts recently that also look really good.JL doesn't have cordovan cxl available but they have burgundy cxl, I don't know if that's similar/close but that's what they have at the moment.
Welcome to the Lounge man!I've been lurking on these boards for some time, and I have been enjoying following your build. I also have a custom JL job in process, my fit jacket won't be until around Thanksgiving (my measurements will probably all messed up if it's after Thanksgiving, lol). This is my second jacket I'm getting done by then, first time I forgot who I worked with, wasn't Alan, but this time I'm working with Damon and he's been great. I just love that they're willing to do anything within reason to make really a bespoke jacket.
I can't wait to see how yours turns out.
The re-sleeved mc500 (chp) arrived thank u JL the sleeves seem to match now which they should. No brown cxl hh sample and no fit jacket. I think they are pretty back up right now for custom jackets.
Just after I had them shorten both sleeves one sleeve was longer than the other. They agreed to make it right and change out both sleeves newI saw the jacket post on the WJAYWT thread but what did the sleeve look like before?
Welcome to the Lounge man!
Post some photos of the first jacket JL made you when you get a chance. Their custom work is awesome and we don’t get to see enough of it.
Welcome to the Lounge man!
Post some photos of the first jacket JL made you when you get a chance. Their custom work is awesome and we don’t get to see enough of it.