Teacore leather jackets - post yours here!

[Furrowson]

My Route66 in horsehide-Not old or a great deal of wear but now looks like this.

Beauty. Black CXL FQHH I assume?

 

[Peter Bowden]

Beauty. Black CXL FQHH I assume?

Yes and as it came out of the box.........a hefty 6 pound jacket

 

[Furrowson]

Gorgeous. To me there's nothing greater than black CXLHH. Moving my brown one along for this reason

 

[da1337]

Thinking of getting a custom jacket from Johnson Leathers in CXLHH. This just makes me want it more. What a beauty.

Yes and as it came out of the box.........a hefty 6 pound jacket

 

[cbez]

Not mine but too beautiful to skip. Love that brown.

 

[Furrowson]

Not mine but too beautiful to skip. Love that brown.
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My, my... what are we looking at here?

 

[handymike]

Looks like a Fine Creek "Leon Custom"

 

[BloodEagle]

Is this 'teacore' ? I don't know, but it seems to be brown underneath, here is my 60s Schott Perfecto (I'm not sure which particular type)

 

[suitecasehandler]

Is this 'teacore' ? I don't know, but it seems to be brown underneath, here is my 60s Schott Perfecto (I'm not sure which particular type) View attachment 589028

It is.
Teacore is just a top coat wearing off revealing the 'original' hide's colour - so that definitely fits that definition.
Nice jacket

 

[mvilla]

This jacket was produced probably around 4 years ago, but sat in its previous owners closet, with regular mustang paste and brushing, no brown showing anywhere, but grains are popped in some places. My plan is to wear this jacket everyday for the next two week through the rainy Vancouver and then take some compare photos at the end of the two weeks wear. I will mostly wear it open, unzipped, damn Hookless, so there might not be any browning along the zip. This is the leather Greg also uses, the Shinki pigment.
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I have seen a lot of pics of used Shinki pigment jackets online. I am weary of the heavily brown ones, I do suspect they have some artificial help. The top coating on the Shinki is very good, holds up well and age beautifully. Here is another one on Youtube that uses the same leather that has been worn in a lot of wet weather, no excessive browning, but a lot of creases:

Heya! Did you wear it for the two weeks? How's it looking now?

 

[Canuck Panda]

Heya! Did you wear it for the two weeks? How's it looking now?

Yup I got some good wear in it, more creasing and grain tightening and browning along the seams,

 

[Furrowson]

Here's my recent 30 euro bargain. Probably 90s, it's French made and I think fits here.

As a 90s kid I love the oversized 90s vibe of this, although it's probably anathema to the vintage tastes of the lounge XD

Anyway, G. Rodson made a good jacket. Thick, soft hide, completely intact lining and a great Riri zipper.

Hope you like the pics. What do you think?

 

[mvilla]

Fantastic examples throughout, really. With all of these, I decided to proceed with Shinki teacore, thus thank you all for your contribution. Soon enough I'll post my own teacore jacket here

 

[MrProper]

No tea core, but blackened brown

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[Jaymig926]

Hello all
Thinking of picking up a DH western pioneer type 3
For those with experience with one does the aging process happen fast or will it stay black for a while ? I prefer for it to take a while
My RMC j24 after 2 years has shown brown just on the sleeve ends as belt loops which I love
Thanks to all for the help !
Jay

 

[Furrowson]

No tea core, but blackened brown
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Gorgeous. Blackened brown Vic I'm assuming?

Is blackened brown not tea core, or is tea core just when it wears through to a lighter aniline base layer?

 

[MrProper]

Gorgeous. Blackened brown Vic I'm assuming?

Exactly, Vicenza blackened brown.

Is blackened brown not tea core, or is tea core just when it wears through to a lighter aniline base layer?

It's probably exactly the same, just packaged as a fancy term.
Whereby my black CXFQHH from before was also brown in the leather but deep black in the top coat, whereas the blackened brown is more of an espresso colour. It's as if the black lets a minimal amount of the brown through. At the time of my CXFQHH, the term "tea core" didn't exist yet... I don't think. At least I had never heard or read it.

 

[mvilla]

Actually, the concept of teacore is fairly old, and can be also referred to as Chashin. This post on Reddit gives a very brief introduction about Chashin, if anybody is interested.

 

[mvilla]

Just saw that @Blackadder already discoursed about this subject on Field Leathers thread

 

[Aloysius]

Actually, the concept of teacore is fairly old, and can be also referred to as Chashin. This post on Reddit gives a very brief introduction about Chashin, if anybody is interested.

Eh. “Tea core” in the way the online fanbase of leather jackets uses it is not the same as how the Japanese originally used it to describe a specific core colour that had that tea tone.

They use it to mean leather with a darker topcoat designed to chip away. Which is why it’s now used to market leathers that never went by that description.