Club Obi Wan

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In 2021, I bought the boots from an Aliexpress seller (I'm sure they are the same manufacturers) according to their tables and the queries I made to the seller's chat, my size was 43, however when they arrived in my hands, they looked like a size 42. The leather and the workmanship of those ankle b...

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Swaine are the parent company of Herbert Johnson now, they bought the company a while back and have a location in London in the Burlington Arcade for the hats, so they should be selling at the same price as Herbert Johnson, they're the exact same company.....And once ordered, the hat will be made th...

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Amen. Full Windsor fan here. The only time I deviate is when trying to mimic a specific look (ie Bond, Doctor Who, etc) or wearing certain thick ties (such as grenadine/knit ties). :TOH: Yeah, same here...Windsor or half Windsor, since I love the balance of it, and the width tends to work best with...

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Herbert Johnson have made a fairly good attempt to keep the sizing and proportions of the hat balanced for different sizes and this includes the height of the bash and the width of the brim too, which reduces with less height...It works fairly well from what I've seen, for people who are less or mor...

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Thanks for the comments everyone. I had bought pieces from Wade years ago and yeah it took time but he came through. I want to make clear again, as in my first post, that this questioning wasnt about trying to slander or be negative.. just a fact finding post to see if anyone knew his circumstances...

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Don't worry too much, Wade is often very slow, due to a million and one issues often popping up outside of his control, but one thing I've always found is that the gear he says he'll make, he makes...It just takes a long time... I ordered a DoFP belt from him at about the same time, and he said he'd...

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Both Jeff and Tibor are SPOT on with their comments here... Wested are fine. But very hit and miss, and as Jeff said, very similar in that to an "off rack suit" shop. You MIGHT be lucky and fit ideally into what they're selling, but you'll probably have to order more than one jacket to wor...

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Fairly thick, but not especially hard leather, it bends very easily, although will hold the shape around documents and books...I can imagine after several years of usage it would be a lot more flexible around those contained documents too...Will hold it's shape when leant against a wall at an angle,...

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I went back through the film to check as well as I could, and the hole pretty certainly ain't there until he's shot by the misshot from Shaw...So it's interesting that now Lucasfilm wants to have the Raiders hole make sense as the "history" instead....I mean, it's cool either way, I don't ...

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Are we meant to take it that the jacket hole in the left sleeve in Dial IS from Raiders as the article said then? Not from Basil's shooting him on the train in Germany? Until this article came out I'd been under the idea that they'd ignored the Raiders hole and gone to Shaw in the movie having shot ...

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I've also just asked him to make me a dinner jacket and trousers using the Temple/Bond peaked lapel in white/ivory fabric too..The trousers will be dark blue, but the jacket will be a bespoke ivory cloth we found a few months ago and kept set aside until I could find the time and money to cover the ...

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Does keep me warm enough with no coat though! I appreciate that!

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Rather change his default look I think I'd like to have seen more variations, like a cold/snow variation (shearling collar maybe?) or maybe a rainy adaptation with taller boots. Or maybe a version of his outfit where he takes his students on a field trip, so kind of half and half between the advent...

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You're welcome. :TOH: I had a cold over Christmas and unfortunately, Mike now has one. #-o Colds ****....I'm sorry.... We had a massive earthquake and tremors for the New Years day, and then a tsunami warning that happily didn't materialise into a huge wave, and then on the second we had a passenge...

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Big selection of decent colours there...I'd go for the Terracotta in brown or wine, I think...Although, the heel stack on those looks very, very similar to the Wested one, just a chunk of rubber...While the price is still much higher, so it might be worth waiting to see how they break in or wear out...

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Thanks Canyon! Happy New Year to Chewie and yourself too! Hope 2024 is a lovely one for us all!

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Looks great, fifthchamber! :TOH: Your other gear is awesome too. :D Cheers, Bear Thanks Beast! Yeah, mostly the result of wild usage of credit cards over a long period of time and the meeting of several very cool dudes online here and Facebook...LOL...I should have said in the video too I guess, bu...

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I just got a chance to watch that video, well done fifthchamber. Shows the styling and movement with it very nicely. David did and excellent job on that holster considering what little info we have on it. so big round of :clap: for MakeItJones! Dalexs Thanks Dalexs! My first attempt at a (half) dec...

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Adam, I think, given the lack of clear and concise information on the design of the actual rig used, that having more selections and variations and choice, all following the basic idea, really helps us all out more, since it gives everyone the ability to choose a holster that they can use and adapt ...

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It might also be that because the gunbelt was off this time out, they needed something a little more solid to use for the whip, so chose something without as much flex or movement, to allow Ford to run and move without it flying out or hitting him badly.. That with the lack of usage, meaning he didn...

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I’d absolutely recommend David’s work to anyone seeking one of these..

Wade Egan also, is working on a design and Adam Karolian has one with two versions too, I believe!

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And with the jacket zipped a little, the entire holster is cleared, with only a touch of the gun butt being visible if you KNOW what you’re looking for there..

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Gun sits tight in the holster with no problem at all..

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Punching twist to help show what I think we can see in Ford when he’s using it too

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Does the job more than well enough.. superb work on this by David..

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The back view showing the set up we went with for the type 1

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As promised, I was sent the shoulder holster (type 1) by David over at makeitjones.co.uk and this is it! Amazing work done by David, I think he got as close as we’re going to get from the video we have finally, and this does seem to work as well as it did in the film at hiding the Browning when in t...

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I saw my friend Adam had taken the prototype of the ones being made by MakeitJones and his looks superb. Mine will apparently be made sometime just before the New Year, so should be sent out and in Japan sometime in early January? I'll post pics when it arrives of course! I suspect the setup being u...

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Holt, it's been said before, I've even said it about 15 times, but that jacket of yours is perfect. Really well done on getting it there! I have to distress mine a little more to get it more broken in I think...I love it, but don't wear it as much as I could, because I prefer the more broken in look...

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Also, entirely agreed....It's also, clearly something that Indy had found in Temple to be a problem... ;) So we can guess he decided to carry two here because of the fumble on the way to Delhi...Of course, none of that was a factor while making Raiders, but it's fun to consider now... I think, for t...

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Even his prototype looks like a "close enough". Maybe in another 40 years another never-before-seen, better resolution photo will show up! Legit. :rolling: I think both versions have something to appeal too....I believe the dog-ear type is most reliable for daily use, and the flat type fo...

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Yeah, I suspect this will be one of the "close is good enough" items in Indy's wardrobe, but we DO have a LOT of close enoughs, and those are a great start point. Barring a photo of the right side of Ford's body, IN the scene, WITHOUT the jacket? We're not going to get much further for the...

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Yeah, that's the point though...All of the items you list are essential to the character, and would be on screen the entire film....And they used custom items for Ford to work into his own "thing"....The holster under his arm, in one scene, and hidden by his jacket for all of it, isn't qui...

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If we look closely in certain lighting, we do see what appears to be a groove, or what's probably a stitch-line below the top of the holster. This is what led me to believe it has the spring break in it, and as The Man in the Hat just posted, was a WWII item. I find it interesting on his holster it...

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https://thecornerarsenal.com/indy_shoulder_holster.jpg It appears to me that the straps are the same color as the holster - brown. Elastic seems more 1960's James Bond than 1940's Indiana Jones. They seemed pretty selective about other costume details I don't think they would just throw whatever th...

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My guess is that the holster used in the movie had a leather strap and not elastic because I think it would've been unlikely that the elastic was brown. It appears that the most common elastic on these types of shoulder holsters was white. And yeah, but it’s very likely that this is a very old and ...

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If we look closely in certain lighting, we do see what appears to be a groove, or what's probably a stitch-line below the top of the holster. This is what led me to believe it has the spring break in it, and as The Man in the Hat just posted, was a WWII item. I find it interesting on his holster it...

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I think the yoke version is the closest to what we can see so far! And very good pull on the right shoulder strap too! Makes that a little clearer too! Excellent find! I suspect, given the lack of evidence we have, that this will be all, but we DO keep on finding more pop up moments, and I love that...

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Michelle is very easy to ask questions to, for sure, and I'm sure she'd be happy to fix the hat exactly as you wanted it, although I'd caution that maybe it's better, if you order a DoD "special" hat, to get the one with the same make up as the film one? Otherwise, I mean, for me, what's ...

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Michelle is very easy to ask questions to, for sure, and I'm sure she'd be happy to fix the hat exactly as you wanted it, although I'd caution that maybe it's better, if you order a DoD "special" hat, to get the one with the same make up as the film one? Otherwise, I mean, for me, what's t...

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If it's not tooooo late? Probably is? But you might be better off with the selection here? Selling cheap too...The Wolverine Origins jacket is spot on, and depending on size, they might have what you need? https://www.etsy.com/shop/BigEffectProps?section_id=46382447 BigEffect Props do great jackets....

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I'm not sure that's THE ONE, but it's a close enough design to copy and change a touch, and it has a history that at least, runs with what we know of Indiana Jones and the direction they wanted him to go in? So it's a logical base! That, with the pictures? Should be enough to get as close as we poss...

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It's increasingly obvious to me that they never intended for us to see the holster at all, in which case it really doesn't matter whether it was period accurate or not. So I do understand the argument for using elastic and it's completely logical. As I mentioned, this was my knee-jerk reaction upon...

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I agree, I think it's a practical holster, not a concealment one, so is aimed at holding the Browning in a location that's easier to reach, sturdily, and allowing a smooth draw if needed...The prototype done by David I think is at least, as close as we'll get to understanding the shape, barring a ne...

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Luckily custom made shoulder holsters are one of my specialities - aiming to have first prototype replica ready around mid-week. Very interested. And yeah, Holt, agreed! Now we KNOW what to look for it does pop a little clearer! There’s no doubt that’s what it is on the left shoulder there! Sent fr...

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I actually do think he has the shoulder rig on as you can see his jacket being more open after he pulled out th HP. Yeah, after this? There’s NO doubt.. Agreed.. he’s clearly carrying it with Marion, and he’s clearly hiding it with the zip up there, and then the speed of his draw indicates it’s the...

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Exactly! The switch is so much easier to make sense of with the shoulder holster being a factor! Maybe it was the satchel, but he’s not using it in this scene, maybe it’s in his trouser band? Like the boat scene later? But we can see with the shoulder holster how easy it is to switch, and why in tha...

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It looks like it has a connection to the belt off the bottom of the holster. Yeah, over both shoulders and connected to the web belt I believe! It doesn’t look like the gun belt, although it is close! I suspect the gun belt would move up a touch too much to be practical in drawing? But it’s connect...

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This shot, brightened a load, shows the bulge I’m meaning.. left chest, in front of the shirt pocket there.. I suspect that’s the browning handle..

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Having gone through the film one more time looking for shoulder holsters only, I can see only one, possible one, with the big German who wears Indy's grey hat in Cairo... After Indy chats with Belloq he leaves, and the German at that point has an automatic, and is seen to move his hand to the left s...

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