indyrocks wrote:
My question has remained the same all along, what justifies the cost?
Strones replied:
Dinosaurhide.
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Man, take a break. I have no vested interest in any of the jackets, barring having a pretty durable one at a reasonable price that looks fairly Indy ( currently, that's one of the older Wested "flying squirrel" types that I picked up used ). What I can say is: You can't win/justify/reason or otherwise come out on top on this one. It's like talking to moon-landing conspiracy theorists or someone who believes the world is flat.
I have no reason to beleive anything you write, but more importantly, I have no reason to disbelieve it. Everything seems logical a+b=c...etc... But you can't explain that to someone who doesn't know the alphabet.
I have an appreciation for what you and others connected with this site ( Keppler, Michaelson, et al...) who have made this hobby much easier for me ( heck! maybe even taken some of the fun out of it by revealing too readily the answers ). It seems many take the legwork with a grain of salt because they have all the answers right up there on the screen, when this is simply an unreasonable outlook.
I'm not saying the detractors are wrong ( just look at the recent jacket revelations you were such an insturmental part in ), because they haven't seen the jacket, and photographic evidence is hard to refute. You have the benifit of having seen the jackets, interacted with the people who create. Not to elevate the hobby or sully Judeo-Christian tenet, but imagine trying to tell some one you just spoke with a BURNING BUSH. YOU know it's true, but you've got a lot of convincing to do and it doesn't look promising. Sooooooo...Have a Jameson's.