Club Obi Wan

Little Venice

Aloha! Amazing collection, I'm so impressed - especially considering the paperwork involved with firearms ownership in HI. My wife and I are actually going to be in Oahu for 2 1/2 weeks or so starting the end of September. Look for our plane's red trail in the sky as we touch down in PHNL (moving th...

Little Venice

Phew, I'm glad it's not the guy I tried to buy from

Will definitely get in touch, thanks for the info G-MANN

Little Venice

Dekker, I think we may have bought from the same guy on ebay. Mine is identical to yours. 8) Who is your eBay contact? I had a bad experience with a seller on eBay last year who took my money and never sent me the bag, or answered my emails - and yet he continues to sell on eBay. Serves me right fo...

Little Venice

I have a pair just like that, got them dirt cheap too. Really soft leather, and tough as nails.

Little Venice

I've bought a couple of bags from this guy - he's a good chap to do business with. I must've exhanged about twenty emails with him last time - gettting him to check the thickness and colour of the fabric of each bag. He was very helpful and I've never seen such fantastic condition bags. Thought I'd...

Little Venice

It's probably nothing to do with you. The customer service at Wested is some of the best I have ever experienced. No B.S. Everyone has a bad day, and as far as my experience goes, Gemma is a star.

Little Venice

Fedora wrote:...At least the fans are keeping the original Indy fedora alive.

Heck you're keeping the Indy Fedora alive more than most Steve!

Amen to that.

Little Venice

Oh, I just LOVE how the belt matches the handbag and the pant legs. Ooo, and the leopard print hatband is to DIE for. This is accessorizing at its best. :roll: :wink: I’m sorry. I’ll go whip myself with a long screen accurate white rope. :notworthy: That is one of the funniest things I've read today!

Little Venice

Those original photo's gave me a good laugh, awesome jacket though!

Little Venice

Sweet Jebus, my eyes, my eyes!

Little Venice

Sorry about your visit - I've been there myself and had exactly the same experience. Ditto for me, when I went three or four weeks ago. My visit was disappointing and at best I left feeling dejected - didn't seem like they cared much if I bought anything or not. I do agree about the stacks of hats,...

Little Venice

No Tarantula to go with it the spider web?

I grew up in the "Boonies", kinda like living my childhood in the first scene from Raiders for a dozen or so years.

Awesome hat.

Little Venice

That iron ribbon is quite distinctive, it goes well with the felt colour.

Little Venice

jpenman wrote:Danieljones, sorry I took so long getting the pics but, I sprained my ankle real bad and I'm not very moble right now.

That sure has seen some use

Thanks for posting the pics - and get better soon.

Little Venice

Those are some fine photographs for sure. That's another place I'd like to see for myself if I ever make the time to go on holiday. Good to see the familiar hat, perfect weather for it.

P.S. In your Switerland pics, is that the H.R. Giger bar in Château St. Germain?

Little Venice

I'll volunteer help for free, but I suspect you've probably got a myriad of offers already

Little Venice

From what I've been told the plastic cover are about as bad for a hat as the rain. Personally, I'd rather get my hat wet or not wear it as opposed to wearing one of those goofy rain covers. :roll: :wink: Darn good point there, and since my hat is (well it's on it's way to me) a pure beaver felt AB,...

Little Venice

I didn't get too stressed out. I also tried to keep myself a little distracted by watching 'Himalaya' with Michael Palin while plaiting the overlay. -Adam W. That's a beautiful whip Adam, unbelievably good in fact. I'm guessing you could probably ask any price within reason - or something resemblin...

Little Venice

Good question, I'm also interested in something like this - short of a plastic bag with a few elastic bands.

Little Venice

The Goatskin is good, my Raiders jacket was expertly fashioned from it and it's fantastic. I was really impressed with how fast my order was processed, made, and delivered - my thanks to you and your team for such sterling work. I think selling them on eBay can only help to promote the clothing that...

Little Venice

crazylegsmurphy wrote:What are you in the CIA?

Either that or not enough sun block, or too much Thuggee makeup.

"The identities have been changed to protect the Thuggee cultists"

Little Venice

WolfPitWhips wrote:
sable wrote:
We need to start a "Do Adventurebilts and other fedoras help you get dates?" Thread.

No.

They Diter them.

A fine hat will have a good impression on a fine lady, I've always found this to be true. You had experiences to the contrary WPW?

Little Venice

Pandora wrote:wear my wested for the first time (it has something sexual I think )

Probably because it's a pretty sexy jacket, I love mine. $\:D/$

Little Venice

Think about nothing else than your jacket, it helps naturally distress yourself to match all your other distressed gear

Little Venice

Texas Raider wrote:How do you get the creases out? Are they a permanant crease?(obviously not ) but do you order them with no crease?

have a nice day.

I think they're just pressed like that after they're finished sewing them, no reason why you shouldn't be able to remove the creases.

Little Venice

It looks great! The fit looks very good. 8) Thanks :wink: I had a friend help me get my measurements right, not like you can really go wrong with them, but it just helps to be sure. It's a size 40, Raiders in goat leather. I originally wondered if it was too big, but with a normal shirt underneath ...

Little Venice

Thank you for your reply! :D One last question, if I may: When you order, are there different colors to choose from or when you order the pants, do they simply come as one standard color? Kind Regards, Captain D As far as I know you only get the standard colour. As for sizing, I just went for my no...

Little Venice

Here is an update, took a while to get a photo taken of my jacket on me. Taken indoors, so that's why it looks almost black - the circular spot in the pic shows the leather colour in the sun. Fascinating how the lighting works on the leather. That's also a Wested shirt, flash really bleached it some...

Little Venice

I agree with Feraud there. They're pretty darn good trousers, I just got a pair along with an Indy shirt from them about three days ago. There's nothing I don't like about them, in fact if they had them in more colours I'd replace all my work trousers with them. :wink: *UPDATE* Here is a photo taken...

Little Venice

Could this be to do with the cut of the jacket, where the zipper flap meets the collar? My jacket seems to want to naturally tend towards lying flatter on that side, apparently due to the physics of the cut. My jacket is a Wested Raiders goat, and this "phenomena" is not too severe on it, ...

Little Venice

Pretty straight foreward. Thanks to the Avaitor, it looks like HJ may be about to make some drastic improvements on the quality of their product. (see this post: http://www.indygear.com/cow/viewtopic.php?t=13267 ) So. If HJ were to improve their product, would you be interested in buying a hat from...

Little Venice

Indiana Ken wrote:Looks like binoculars to me

Ken

I agree, I had a pair of binoculars with a similar case - reinforced to protect them.

Little Venice

I work near the HJ shop, went there a few weeks ago and yeah I wasn't very impressed with the hat to be frank. I've ordered an AB though so no worries there

Little Venice

I've got a TAG strap and it's fantastic (now if only my original bag would turn up in the post

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Little Venice

Hey that hat is on it's own adventure for sure, what the heck did you put on it before you lit it?

Little Venice

I agree, great whip and very nice idea for the holder - it looks very stable as far as the risk of coming undone. Good show all around

Little Venice

...Most of what I've heard here on breaking in involves things like... actually sleeping in it...These are the things I am utilizing. Anyone else please post thoughts! Regards, Well I swear that's a new one for me, sleeping in it? London is particularly hot at the moment so perhaps this is why it s...

Little Venice

Nice jacket and gear. You've obviously gone to some effort to get the measurements right to compliment you, I like how you've interpreted the outfit in your own way, but still remain true to the original. Nice one kid

Little Venice

Kt Templar wrote:So no other Brits got a good source?

I may have to import in bulk. Anyone in the UK or europe interested in a solid brass buckle?

KT

I just ordered mine from one of the fine vendors here, he's in the US but I ordered some other things from him so it didn't phase me.

Little Venice

I've found some surgical spirit (?rubbing alcohol?) put on blisters helps them harden into tougher skin. Popping blisters gives me the creeps, although from time to time you have to

Little Venice

Those are a handsome set of revolvers, they seem in fantastic condition too - great story to go with it also

Little Venice

But the whole story becomes even worse ! A while ago I read COW and saw a picture of the HJ shop and I remembered that place. :shock: At the time I was there and I had enough money to buy a HJ, but i just didn't realized the shop. :oops: ](*,) Yeah the shop doesn't have a Herbert Johnson sign on th...

Little Venice

Hmm that's an interesting post, that's why it's so important to measure your head. Oh and when I was at HJ I was told they're providing the hats and luggage for the film version of the Da Vinci Code, starring Tom Hanks.

Little Venice

Thanks for the advice guys :tup: I've emailed the kind folks at Wested and let's see what they can do for me. In my post with the pics I've found a link to an online shop that sells the popper, erm, "putter-inner" :-s Hopefully I won't need it often but like you said it's immensely cheaper...

Little Venice

Sheesh, I'm going to have to send mine back again! The press-stud on the front right pocket has come apart - last time it was the front left pocket. Here is a photo of it: http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b93/littlevenice/westedpoppers.jpg I guess they've had a bad batch of these but at +-£10 posta...

Little Venice

Hey Erri,

Forgive my late input, great hat you have there!

Little Venice

The ###### Hat Company sold it to me. They also send you one out to use when you buy a hat but I preferred to keep the thing as I like to think I will develop a relation with several hatters. I ask if I could purchase it and they agreed to it and said in fact he was phasing out that version of it a...

Little Venice

Little Venice, You know some of us have these big coconuts because we need extra storage capacity for our brains. :shock: #-o Don't worry about it, Fedora will fix you right up with the best hat in the business. I'm hoping Fedora will fix it up for me. Some of us do have big heads, imagine the size...

Little Venice

Did you see whether or not the hats you were trying on were "regular oval"? Sometimes, when a 7 5/8 regular oval just won't fit right, a 7 5/8 long oval might have a better shot. Again, a little stretching isn't that bad also. Regards, I read the labels and none of them mentioned anything...

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Zach R. wrote: I got it out of the package and wore it out of the post office, it was ninety-three degrees and I was sweating like a mule.

Congrats on finally getting it! You know I also wore mine when it arrived and the heat in London was something awful

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