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There is an excellent tutorial on distressing your wells lamonts on toddscostumes.com. Thanks for the tutorial Todd!
http://www.toddscostumes.com/indy/how_t ... gloves.htm

Tutorials are great, but with this piece of gear, actual use is the best distresser. Regards. Michaelson

I agree with Michaelson, everyday use is the best distresser. In my case, I went hunting/camping for a week and had my Wells Lamonts with me. A week in the New Mexico mountains worked wonders on 'em!

Yep. Just wear 'em. I've used mine for gardening and all season long as my winter gloves. It does the trick quite nicely.

bink

I'll be more than happy to distress gloves for free! Here's my latest pair that were new about a month ago. Plus its guaranteed genuine archaeological dirt! (Actually most of the distressing on my gloves comes from changing tires out in the desert; about 19 ruined tires in the past 6 months!)



Look a lot like Todd's don't they?!



So send 'em to me and I'll distress 'em doing all things archaeological. I save money on gloves, and provide a service to my fellow gearheads! I know, it's a selfless act, but I am willing to make that sacrifice, since I now consider you all to be my friends.

Watch Jack, folks. The next thing he'll offer to do is to wear your new Wested jacket and throw himself underneath a running truck! Regard! Michaelson

19 tires in 6 months! How did you manage that Jack?

As for the gloves, well...use the bloody things! A little hard work won't hurt you.

J_Weaver wrote:19 tires in 6 months! How did you manage that Jack?

About 85% of our blowouts are side wall punctures from creosote bushes. The government, in its infinite wisdom, feels that radial tires with two-ply sidewalls are sufficient for offroad travel in the Mojave. Ha!

The other 15% is mainly from shrapnel from 53 years of blowing the heck out of this place, sharps rocks-particularly volcanic-, etc. Hence the wear and tear on gloves, as well. But hey, they get distressed really quickly!

Michaelson wrote:Watch Jack, folks. The next thing he'll offer to do is to wear your new Wested jacket and throw himself underneath a running truck! Regard! Michaelson

Hmm, hadn't thought of adding that service... Anybody need their Wested distressed?! If my Jeep doesn't quit draining my bank account, that might be the only way I'll ever get to touch one!

Haha Jack! 2-ply side walls for offroad? Ah the good old governmet; I bet they give you "all terrain" tires too.

J_Weaver wrote:Haha Jack! 2-ply side walls for offroad? Ah the good old governmet; I bet they give you "all terrain" tires too.

Nope, we have to "upgrade" to ATs! And then the best we can get is 6-ply! They won't let us buy our own, so we keep poppin' 'em and they keep replacin' 'em. Bear in mind we are also driving stock Blazers. I've bottomed ours out so many times the roof should be dented.

Man, I feel for you. You'd think that they would at least give you an old Jeep or something a little more suited for offroad. I guess you don't have to deal with much mud though, so your lucky there.

The first time I worked in the yard trimming bushes with my Indy gloves, I was surprised at how fast the distressing occured. The only problem is that one of them got distressed. The other hand was mainly used for holding the garbage sack open to put the leaves into. I had one fairly undistressed glove and one distressed one. (Yeah, I know I was probably a site bagging those branches and leaves. Yard work is not my forte.)

Can i ask WHY distressing a good pair of gloves? Gloves are already very touchable by themselves. I think after a month of overuse (or 2 minutes checkng your car engine) they will look distressed.. anyway i think it's a shame for a good pair of gloves.

The same reason as always - this being an Indiana Jones-gear forum, people want to make their stuff look like the actual things worn by HF on screen... this is optional, of course, and anyone wanting to wear pristine Indygear is entitled to his/her opinion too.

Scandinavia Jones wrote:The same reason as always - this being an Indiana Jones-gear forum, people want to make their stuff look like the actual things worn by HF on screen... this is optional, of course, and anyone wanting to wear pristine Indygear is entitled to his/her opinion too.

I perfectly see your point, it was my personal opinion about gloves ... but anyway, poooooooooooor nice gloves ! ! !


Have a nice day

I live in a small trailer and ever year befor the snow falls I will insulati my place with a boat load of hay bails. I put the hay bails all around my trailer to keep the cold out. Than in the Spring I go around and remove all the hay bails and I will burn them or throw them in the woods, but when I do this {and this is the point of my story}the hay bails are all covered in slime I dont know why but we are talken hared core Ghostbuster slime. So ya I got to were some gloves for the job {and buy the way the gloves I did the job with this yer were a gift from a COW member so you know thay look like Doc. Joneses gloves.} So when the work was done I went to the end of my driveway and wipe the slime of my gloves buy rubbing tham on the pavement of the maine road in front of my trailer.

It gets the slime off and it distresses my gloves nicely.

I have my own way of distressing gloves. I take them down to my station and use them to roll hose , and after a couple of weeks this is what I get..................http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=677ia1


Let me know what you think.

Distressing through good, honest hard work! That's what I like to see!

Hah! You want to see distressing, you should see my dads work gloves! Ha!

My gloves got some natural distressing today when I was helping bink move.

Bufflehead Jones wrote:My gloves got some natural distressing today when I was helping bink move.

I hope he fed you. Knowing bink, he probably asked you to get the pizzas.
OK, I'm just kidding. That was very nice of you to help him out. That is a very big move and I am happy to hear that bink had some Indy friends there to soften the transition.

HJ,

Yes, bink fed me. I was prepared though, I made sure that I wore pants that had button closures on the pockets so that I could secure my wallet.

You're lucky, Buff. He can get into button pockets while HE'S wearing gloves! That's why I have a zipper installed on one of my inside pockets when I get a new jacket. He hasn't figured that one out yet.... Regard! Michaelson

Anyone notice to be screen accurate you should wear your gloves back to front and then do whatever you do to distress them - in Raiders the gloves seem darker on the outside/back than on the inside, a sure fire sign these were distressed artificially by wardrobe rather than already well used gloves.

Ken

Here's an option...
I just put the gloves on and rubbed my hands vigorously on my concrete garage floor. One minute later, you'd swear they'd been in the truck chase sequence! Then I just threw 'em in the washing machine on a normal cycle and viola! Screen accurate gloves!