Great post KT! That is a very clear pic in both instances. The 2nd does show very well how tough the HH is compared to the softer lamb. Even with the weight on it the HH doesn't want to give much. The first pic shows the hide underneath nicely. Good to know and this will be a good reference for thos...

oh, eew. ok, I'll stick to the idea of going with a goatskin then and later distressing it.

Goat looks like it moves to a tan color from what i've seen.

I was just curious if anyone had distressed a Horse Hide Jacket from Wested yet. So far I've seen nearly every kind of leather distressed and the color underneath proves to be different between skins. Valuable info for how a jacket will change its look as it ages. So what color would come out in a H...

Looks like its coming together very nicely... that may be the leather for my next wested :c) I'd like to see more pics when its done... is it "80's Fit?" Does the "80's Fit" have to be special requested or is that the default cut? I only ask because I specified neither as I had ...

Yeah, that was my experience exactly. Pecards darkens and adds moisture back to the leather. That should be very evident on those half and half pictures. Sorry once again that you have to click the link but its worth a look. Cracking/broken leather will not be repaired, but further cracking due to m...

No problem, I just need to take a few more pics.. Something remarkable about these predistressed jackets is how much pecards they can take too. I gave it two coats and the each time the next day not a drop of pecards was left on the surface. So it seems to take a while to get the surface saturated. ...

Ok, I promised a few guys that I would post some before and after pics of pecard treatment on a predistressed Wested. Here they are. Hopefully this will be helpful to people as a reference. Sorry I had to use links but no matter what I do the image function fails me :( http://www.imageviper.com/dip/...

Ransom, Fedora will bash your A/B in any style you like when you order. That comes with the purchase. I ordered mine open-crowned and bashed it myself. There are many excellent tutorials here for bashing a hat. Yeah, just the same I'd prefer someone experienced do it.. It's an expensive hat and no ...

Thanks Jpenman! I just took these two. Have had the hat on for about five hours since that last set. As far as the top dent, I almost never mess with it so it's pretty consistent with the first ones. Here's the front view, though it's difficult to get a sense of the "deep bash" theory fro...

I just thought I'd let people know that I noticed a sale on Beans Dress chinos in a dark khaki. I know you can get these anywhere but they carry the shirt as you may know as well.

Looking good! Says nice things about the HJ for me to consider before I get my first hat. Right now I'm conflicted between the Fed delux and the AB. Mainly because I'm not usually a hat guy. I love the hats on you guys, but dunno if it will work for me, hence the rationalization for going with the f...

I guess I'm one of the folks who ought to reply to this! For my brim I basically used this tutorial: http://www.whyaxis.net/indy/hatshaping/hatshaping.html keeping a photo of rick5150's brim as a reference. I did not trim the brim, and I don't think I used steam, but I might have used a little bit....

Sounds great. I'd really like to see before and after pics. i'm going to Wested in april to get measured and order my jacket. I relaly want to see and feel the differnet materials on an entire jacket, not jsut some little sample pieces. If someone knows anyhting about _'s jacket and if there was so...

Can someone post a link to where I can buy some of the regular pecards and specifically which type was used to make that jacket look so nice? Are there any more pics of that jacket? i'd relaly like to see how the rest of it looks. Does the pecards smooth out the predistressed cow hide? The sample I...

Ransom, how tight do you have the straps around the action pleats? Try loosening them off and see if that helps. Also, that jacket does look really tight, but wested may not take it back, so you may be faced with selling it :(. Regards Craig Unfortunately the straps have not been tightened at all. ...

ok, so those picture links didn't take to very well. did I miss something?

Here is the scoop. Apparently my adjustment suggestions that "I'm closer to a 42R instead of a 40R" WERE taken into consideration with this jacket! So now the burden is on me to ship this 2 more ways. Perhaps I should do a 44 instead of a 42 if this is, say, roughly a 41? What do you guys ...

Ok my predistressed arrived today and I must say I was very impressed with the quality (way better than a wings jacket), but there was one problem. It was too small... NOOOOO! I had updated my measurements via email no more than a day or 2 after my order, hoping to catch them before they made the bi...

Michaelson wrote:When buffed, yes, it gets that shiney.

Regards! Michaelson

what did you use to buff it? Just a lint free cloth?

WELL said, Havana. I agree completely. :clap: Great avatar, my friend. Tales of the Gold Monkey! GREAT show! My youngest daughter loved old Jack the dog. :D Regards! Michaelson Michaelson I love the Burns picture! Now you just need some intimidating music, a cryptic burns speech and a follow up cac...

It's been my experience that you need to live with a Wested for a while before you really know what mods you want or need. From reading the forum, you might think I've just got to have this certain feature but after living with it for a while you may soon realize that it wasn't really so important....

nice listing of available mods, thank you! I suppose you are right though...I will probably love the jacket as it is and any mods can be saved for the 2nd jacket :D When that time comes I will need to get my tailoring for dummies dictionary out and figure out what all of these things mean :wink: Tha...

Well I've already said this in a post before, but I must say it again. I wish I had found the wealth of knowledge available about these jackets here in the forums before I had ordered!! Now what are some of the mods I see people talking about in their jackets? E.g. X-Box Stitching, Back elastic &quo...

IndyDoc wrote: See my recent post on leather samples to see some examples of most of the leather including cow.

Ok that was very helpful! Thank you IndyDoc

I don't know if the precow do have a collour speccificasion?? Aren't precows allways very light colloured? Who knows? Yeah I just wondered if all the nice distressed jackets I've seen posted started out as dark brown. Because the dark brown before distressing is really really dark, like almost blac...

.. the predistressed cowhide after treating it with antique finish, sandpaper, sand, dirt and again with sandpaper. Here are the pictures, what do you think? http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/BreinederIndy/IMG_0009.jpg Is this authentic brown or the "dark" brown predistressed jacket? ...

Ok there is nothinng quite like flying your newb colors if it isn't quoting yourself in an original reply. YES! Ok so I have a little learning to do about posting

Thank you for the greeting :D And thank you for the new info as I'm sure others would want to know that with your experience with antique finish it really really doesn't last long at all. Very good to know. I think everyone who reads this thread will now have the full story on your beautiful jacket...

[quote="BreinederIndy"].. the predistressed cowhide after treating it with antique finish, sandpaper, sand, dirt and again with sandpaper. I'm sorry if you already said this, but I've been looking over your comments to get a brand and precise name for the antique finish you used and didn't...