While lightly distressing a goatskin A-2 replica jacket I won on eBay, I stumbled across something I thought the members here may find interesting. I am not that picky myself and love my Wested just the way it is, but I thought I would point something out to everybody who is obsessed with the perfect screen accurate jacket…
I was using acetone to lightly wipe away the shine on the jacket and as I wiped across the pocket flaps, I saw a horizontal line begin to form across the flap. It was very reminiscent of the Last Crusade pocket flap. What caused it?
The distressing tends to pull out details from whatever is beneath the leather. That is why I distress my holster with the gun in it, but is also why you need to be very careful to make sure there is nothing in the pockets – otherwise the outline shows through.
This line is created by the pocket flap resting against the upper rim of the pocket itself. After looking at my Wested lambskin jacket, I realized that the top of the pocket extends too high under the flap to make this mark in the area it is in the screen used jacket. There is only a ¼” gap on my jacket. The LC jacket looks as if this line is about ¾” to 1” from the top of the pocket flap. Since all of my jackets are Raider's style, maybe this is not true with the Wested LC style.
Unfortunately, I am not sure I explained this too well
What does everybody else think?
