Club Obi Wan

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Definitely a Last Crusade cut. It's really hard to tell by the pics what the back pleats are like. I could understand with such tough hide that a complex pleat may have not been suitable. It really is a beautiful jacket. :rolling: You guys kill me....it's heavy front quarter HH...it's lying flush a...

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One more thing. I have a friend that doesn't like "making of" documentaries. They destroy the illusion of things that he loves. He doesn't want to know that the director of a movie that he loved was actually a jerk. Or another example is some people don't want to hear about a musician's pe...

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We all have our private impressions of Tony. Again, I liked him a lot. He was an honest guy that stood behind his product. I too got grade A service from Tony. I too got a bunch of follow up calls about my jacket, one on Thanksgiving. I was even called on a Sunday to come and pick up my jacket (whic...

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Oh and after Steven Spielberg is dead, you will read many, many accounts about him not being a nice man. That's what happens after people pass, the truth comes out. At least Tony was a nice man. Nobody's saying otherwise. I'm not sure what the problem is.

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Tony Nowak, I visited Tony's shop a few times. I had about 5 or 6 interactions with him, including one QM summit. He was a really cool guy. He was honest, for what counts. But you guys are mistaken if you think that he appreciated the fanboy-geek-obsession that many of his Indygear customers had, b...

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I've got a great lawyer in case I run into any trouble with my movie.

Jackie Chiles

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I would say that the lack of a quilted lining defeats the purpose. All of those old leather jackets with hidden knits are more substantial than an Indy jacket. When you alter an Indy jacket and add a more substantial lining, it isn't really an Indy jacket anymore. There are really cool "other&q...

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You mean having Señor Spielbergo direct my new Indiana Jones script is not a good idea? "F" you guys then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWxcnl8PL_o

"You left out pleasant".

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I was hoping that he'd be in a straight jacket for Indy 5.

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You can't alter a larger leather jacket into a smaller one. The arm holes are already cut too large for instance.

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The current one looks more Raiders correct than the second pic, really.

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yeah, that was weird seeing a Sergei post. I have a water buffalo jacket. It's pretty durable.

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My deerskin Expo ended up with Baphy, and unfortunately he passed away. I don't know what happened to the jacket. I would have never gotten rid of it if it still fit me. When I got the thing it was not exactly snug. Then I lost about a jacket size in weight. It was awesome, still one of my favorite ...

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I think most of us on COW are qualified to be "professional shoppers" :CR: Kyle While I get you're being funny, the point was that she was not very good at the business side of her job. There is responsibility and accountability. Frankly, I get the impression she never took that seriously...

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My favorite jacket is the bathrobe that he wore in Raiders. He had that whole Hugh Hefener thing going. Man, he probably bagged so many college coeds in that thing.

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Screen grab studying is a pseudo science. I used to consider myself a top "scientist" in the field, lol. All you can really get from screen grabs are basic details (like the jacket having 2 front pockets for instance). When you take something that is 3 dimensional in real life, and flatten...

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I have both, but my TN is a lambskin so it is apples and oranges. I would imagine that in a tough skin like goat, a TN won't let you down. It's made well. But I still have to give the nod to G&B. They're next to indestructible.

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Here's a link to a thread about my water Buffalo Expo.

http://indygear.com/cow/viewtopic.php?f ... LO#p465889

I noticed the 3rd link is dead for whatever reason (1st one that I clicked on), but the other work, I think.

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Says that the details are coming. Nice skins.

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The couple of goat jackets I owned seemed to develop fairly good arm wrinkles in not too much time. Here's my first goat indy jacket at about 18 months old. ] As it is Magnolis goatskin in question please lets keep westeds goatskin in a wested thread. It's the second time you have posted westeds go...

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seems to me the TN looked more age appropriate, the thicker leather and lighter color seemed to work in a twenty year older indy, alot of guys don't seem to like the jacket but I think it did the trick, indy was in the 50s, and needed a little bit of a different look I wouldn’t have minded if they ...

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No. But when I wear the bag, sometimes I get asked if I am a transvestite.

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I see some bad blood in regards to TFL. Not been there long enough (one year) to know about those things. I don't do business with them, only participate now and then, mostly reading to learn more. I didn't get "bent out of shape" as much as thinking "w-t-f did I do here to deserve T...

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I did that pitch with Bernie but he asked "Is the owner of G&B going to make my jackets?" That's what he was looking for. A small guy who could not get tired of him and tell him to pound sand. I can understand that. You're just not going to say no to a guy that makes you a prototype i...

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I don’t think that G&B was ever really given a chance to compete for whatever reason. They weren’t on Bernie’s radar. Neither would have "fit the mold" Bernie wanted. Like Steve Delk. A one-man-operation who could make a jacket on command. In general that is true, except that from wha...

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I don’t think that G&B was ever really given a chance to compete for whatever reason. They weren’t on Bernie’s radar. You know, Bernie seems like a really nice guy, but I really have to question his choices. I mean, I understood why he went with Tony. It would be hard not to after meeting Tony. ...

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Yeah, but one thing I had a hard time 'learning' over the years, though, is that 'thin' does not necessarily mean 'weak'. Sometimes the thinnest material can be the strongest stuff out there in terms of tensile strength.....so don't always assume because something is thick or heavy means it's also ...

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The best value has to be a goatskin jacket made with good stitching. That will last the rest of your life.

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I will have to say that you almost CANNOT knock the color off of my 2002 Wested Goat! It is one of the reasons why the guy who sold it to me sold it for in the first place. It just doesn't artificially distress well. Just so happens to be one of the reasons I love it! Travis No jacket maker has tot...

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Go with unicorn skin.

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Nope. Everything from Wested came with d-rings. Peter confirmed this to me on a call in September of 2007. I've asked about this tri-bar? Ian's response was it would have been essentially the same as the slider and they may have used both interchangeably. I've seen screen grabs where that bar is qu...

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...so most likely, TL's jacket was one of only three jackets made from the third Leather Concessionaire order, made for the principal stunt guys. And to be clear. The progeny of the jacket I examined that we are referencing? It was clearly part of the SECOND order. A disposable stunt jacket and NOT...

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So - riddle me this? You recently sold off some Expeditions. Why the curiosity now? Just asking... Sometimes people don't realize what they have until it is gone. It happens all of the time. You know, like not appreciating what a handsome devil you are until after father time comes to collect. :Ply...

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The dying for each batch of goatskin can vary. Some of the goatskin from G&B ages well. It also seems that their dark brown goatskin in general shows age better than their seal. At a certain point, it was thought that the seal was the closest to the original film jacket. Wested's own version of ...

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The jacket looks great. All of Tundraider’s jackets that I’ve seen look great I might add. His Expo fits right in there. Dave Marshall is one reason that G&B is always worth considering when you are trying to decide on an Indy jacket. People loved Tony Nowak just as much for his knowledge and pe...

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oh I totally know what you mean my friend. the only TN jacket I have seen that drapes like the movie jacket is Binks TN. Binks jacket skin was selected after how the real one was. pretty flowey and drapy but darker. Bink wanted an exact copy of the real jacket skin and details. (correct me if I'm w...

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You'd think that black would be a natural choice for an Indiana Jones jacket, but screen accurate stitch nazi's are everywhere, lol. I have a G&B black goatskin jacket. Black goatskin is great. At 200 bucks you can't beat it. I'm sure USW is scratching their heads at why they didn't sell, well m...

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I had to do a search to see what you guys were talking about with regards to the Surrogates jacket. It certainly looks vintage, although it also looks like it could be a new jacket constructed with beat up hide. I saw some of the hides in TN’s shop (for instance) and it would be an easy thing to do....

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Yeah, zippers were around, but they weren't popular until later, as Paterson pointed out. Also, if you want to get technical, there were no "elastic" waistbands as you pointed out. What you meant was a knit waistband. Elastic came into use on leather jackets in the 80's. A waistband would ...

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Indiana Holt wrote:that's not actually such a bad looking jacket. I have seen much worse.

Is that a compliment? lol

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Congratulations. The jacket looks tailor made. You couldn't have done better, you basterd!

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.....Or buy a buy a dark seal or black jacket. My point is just to throw caution to the wind and buy whatever jacket color that pleases you. You can’t get too technical with trying to match color, as has been discussed over and over and over and over and over and over. It just becomes like chasing ...

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.....Or buy a buy a dark seal or black jacket. My point is just to throw caution to the wind and buy whatever jacket color that pleases you. You can’t get too technical with trying to match color, as has been discussed over and over and over and over and over and over. It just becomes like chasing y...

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Or you could save a few bucks and hang out in dark alleys. That's what most of the "look" comes from.

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Yeah, at this point I could care less. I just posted because CM asked. The stunt jackets were a little different, but not enough for me to give a .... (you can fill this in)

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These aren't very good. Lot's of angle distortion. Oh well. The russet is the Expo; The other is the TN. http://images12.fotki.com/v68/photos/1/42201/9150786/IMG_0969-vi.jpg http://images54.fotki.com/v1594/photos/1/42201/9150786/IMG_0970-vi.jpg http://images57.fotki.com/v66/photos/1/42201/9150786/IM...

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I also get the next size down with G&B products, though I don't recommend it, as they say to order your regular suit size. Many people are happy doing just that. The other thing about the Indy jacket is that it should feel a little strange/short (maybe), if you have the right fit. It takes a lit...

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So I compared the jackets and it is pretty amazing at how close they are to each other in terms of the measurements. I made a mistake. The storm flap width is identical. The widths of the bottoms of the panels are also the same. It's not really fair to compare the length of the panels because I ge...

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So I compared the jackets and it is pretty amazing at how close they are to each other in terms of the measurements. I made a mistake. The storm flap width is identical. The widths of the bottoms of the panels are also the same. It's not really fair to compare the length of the panels because I get...

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Thanks Rund - I forgot about the Expo gussets. By the way didn't tony say that the jacket he looked at was a badly made piece of *&^%! If it was a Cooper job then he must not have carred all that much, ay? You can see on early prototype Expo (posted recently) that the pocket flap was quite diff...

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