Wested Custom ROLA Jacket

VP · Post by VP » Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:56 am

Anyone ordered one from http://www.wested.com/customrola--jacket-161-p.asp? The pics and the text suggest that it has 80s cut, no facings, tapered sleeves, small nickel zipper to the bottom of the jacket, "narrower" action pleats and piped inside pocket. Are all of these specs still the case? What about

storm flap width and rounded top corner
collar-storm flap position
yoke position/size
pocket size, position and snap color
side strap length
back panel extending all the way

And how narrow the action pleats actually are? Oh yeah and post pics if you have one.

Post by **Holt** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:09 am

yes thats just the jacket people order when they want an 80's cut.

the specs you asked about are usually typed in the special request box. or like me among many others send them the specs in an seperate email.

if you dont point out that you want the backpanel to extend, pocket placement or longer straps, then it migth be overlooked.since they dont know what you want and HOW you want it.

if you are considering to order one then I would suggest that you send them a full spec sheet with everything you want.

Kevin Anderson · Post by **Kevin Anderson** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:15 am

..And cross your fingers, and pray.

JC1972 · Post by **JC1972** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:12 pm

I'm also interested to see what specs people use for a Wested Raiders or ROLA jacket.

Post by **Holt** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:22 pm

please feel free to browse thru the fourm. there are TONS of pictures and specs for these type of jacket.

JC1972 · Post by **JC1972** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:17 pm

Indiana Holt wrote:please feel free to browse thru the fourm. there are TONS of pictures and specs for these type of jacket.

True but not everyone posts pictures with what specs they got. Or vice versa.

VP · Post by VP » Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:30 pm

Hey Holt, does your special collar affect that off the shoulder look?

Hatch · Post by **Hatch** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:31 pm

Holt, could you please relate pocket size/placement and strap length you would suggest for ROLA custom.....thanks

Hatch · Post by **Hatch** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:34 pm

VP, afraid nothing but a TN has captured that yet,but didn't I see that Peter had what looked like a TN1.......so you never know ...

Post by **Holt** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:48 pm

VP wrote:Hey Holt, does your special collar affect that off the shoulder look?

no, the shoulder seam on my jacket is like all the other wested jackets been made. it does fall of the shoulders if I 'force' it to fall of the shoulders, but the TN jackets 'wants' to fall of the shoulders...

Hatch · Post by **Hatch** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:55 pm

Hatch wrote:Holt, could you please relate pocket size/placement and strap length you would suggest for ROLA custom.....thanks

Holt, when you get a chance.....thanks

Post by **Holt** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:12 pm

depends on size......

I only make specs for my jacket size.

but let me take the oportunity to say this.

I think people may have gotten the wrong impression of me...

yes, its true, I am a guy who is extreme detailed obsessed . I make jacket specs for what I find SA.I use lots of lots of time on my projects, looking at screen grabs, calculating specs and sketching out patterns. blah,blah,blah..... yes I know... I need help!

But Im getting LOTS of pm's and emails about me making specs for different jackets sizes and calculating jacket spec/sizes for different body types.......

So, I will say this out in the public now...so please try an understand. I can TRY to help and give you my best advice, but I can NOT give you a full 'size up' for a jacket....I am not a tailor and I dont know anything about that profession... my specs is made after what I see is SA, YOU may see something totally different....

for example. the 'Holt' jacket made after my specs...which most of you are contacting me about...... if someone got a jacket with full Holt specs only in one size up, it may not look the same, and YOU may feel dissapointed when you get it or feel ripped of...... I dont know, but what I do know is that it doesnt make me feel easy knowing I have given a the 'go' with my specs and you get a bag of poop in return ( metaforacly speaking)

I make jackets after my body type....

and let me say, Im not mad or irritiatred or something now. I dont want to come of harsh in any way....I just wanted to say this to you ALL in public....

you can all contact me as much as you like, I will gladly help all of you in the best way i CAN..........but you have been warned that I cant make a jacket from scratch for you

hey! I just noticed I have a little Mitch LaRue style of writing.

VP · Post by VP » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:00 pm

The measurements of my regular 44 pocket are only a few millimeters off of those of the agent5 measurements, btw.

RCSignals · Post by **RCSignals** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:54 pm

VP wrote:The measurements of my regular 44 pocket are only a few millimeters off of those of the agent5 measurements, btw.

so your jacket was made using Agent5 specs?

VP · Post by VP » Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:55 am

No, standard size. Probably same as this one: http://www.wested.com/raiders-jacket-157-p.asp
What I mean is that the standard measurements are pretty darn close to those which are considered screen accurate.

Post by **Holt** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:55 pm

how?

the standard jacket is a full cut baggy jacket. it has facings and it has a brass zipp. not SA.

if you are a SA nut like me, then you can see the diffirence between the jackets from 200 feet..

but if your not into Sa then yeah, all jacket will look the same... like many people cant really see any difference between all 4 jackets becasue their not into it....

VP · Post by VP » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:02 pm

I meant regarding the pocket size, overall the measurements are completely different. My next jacket is probably going to be a DB Lamb Raiders, I'm thinking of these specs:

All Cotton lining
Black/gunmetal sliders with X-box stitching
80's cut
No leather facing on the zipper
5 gauge silver color zipper with small zipper pull extending as low as possible without the zipper pull showing
Slit inside pocket, NOT piped (see http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd31 ... CN0601.jpg)
Tapered sleeves and back panel, backpanel extending all the way to the arm seam
Extra reinforced handwarmer/side entry pocket entry stitchings
Action pleat depth 3.2cm (~1.25")
Collar ending in the middle of the storm flap, rounded top corner on the storm flap
Side strap length 22.2cm (~8.75")
Arm seam located one inch below the yoke seam
Silver colored snaps on pockets, scalloped pocket flaps, pocket size same as my current jacket (width 16.3cm (~6.42"), height 19.5cm (~7.68"), pocket flap height 7cm (~2.76")), located 5.1cm (~2") from the bottom, right pocket 4cm (~1.57") from the zipper seam and left pocket 2.8cm (~1.1") from the storm flap

Post by **Holt** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:21 pm

looks good.

you have been given the 'go'

VP · Post by VP » Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:04 am

Placed the order, let's see when they answer my email.

Heyjude7 · Post by **Heyjude7** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:16 am

I just put in a custom ROLA last week and didnt have that big a list.. i had a little help from a little elf...

i got an email from Gemma sayin that it could be done .. so keepin my fingers crossed till the jacket comes..
i ordered goat though

EchoSix · Post by **EchoSix** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:44 am

Indiana Holt wrote: hey! I just noticed I have a little Mitch LaRue style of writing.

I admit... I had to look that up.

Are you talking about the ONLY Mitch LaRue that Google turns up, who happens to be on Facebook? Otherwise I'm at a loss.

The only reason my interest is peaked on this, is because I happen to write very similar to that myself.

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:51 am

What Holt meant by that was that he was using the same style of bolding words in his sentences like Mitch does.

VP · Post by VP » Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:00 am

EchoSix wrote:Are you talking about the ONLY Mitch LaRue that Google turns up, who happens to be on Facebook? Otherwise I'm at a loss.

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4957

JC1972 · Post by **JC1972** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:20 pm

VP wrote:Placed the order, let's see when they answer my email.

What size jacket did you get?

VP · Post by VP » Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:27 pm

44 Long in 80s cut, my first one was 44L in standard cut. No answer yet.

VP · Post by VP » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:12 am

My order has been processed, now the wait begins. Hopefully I don't get any extra charges for the specs I asked for.

Mitch LaRue · Post by **Mitch LaRue** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:02 am

Indiana Holt wrote:hey! I just noticed I have a little Mitch LaRue style of writing.

EchoSix wrote:Are you talking about the ONLY Mitch LaRue that Google turns up, who happens to be on Facebook? Otherwise I'm at a loss.

binkmeisterRick wrote:What Holt meant by that was that he was using the same style of bolding words in his sentences like Mitch does.

MAN!
Okay... "for the record", I do NOT know WHAT these guys are talkin' about!
(I guess I COULD tell you I'll try to "reel it in"

... but hey, who are we kidding? Right?)

M i t c h

(Glad I could inspire you Holt, now pay me back by sending me a pm and telling me how big my collar on my "Holt Spec's Raiders" should be... I'm a Size 42... Besides, I'm sure no one ELSE is asking...)

Post by **Holt** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:19 am

Besides, I'm sure no one ELSE is asking...)

dont know what you are talking about my friend.

if you need some help, just pm me and Ill give you a few pointers.

Mitch LaRue · Post by **Mitch LaRue** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:29 am

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggghhht...

Cheers,
Mitch

(Oooops... Forgot to BOLD anything... DANG!)

Post by **Holt** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:31 am

I am talking seriously my friend

Mitch LaRue · Post by **Mitch LaRue** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:02 pm

EchoSix wrote:Are you talking about the ONLY Mitch LaRue that Google turns up, who happens to be on Facebook? Otherwise I'm at a loss.

By the way, I don't mean to highjack this thread... but I'm just gonna take this opportunity to quickly clear up a little something that's caused a little bit of confusion:

My REAL name isn't "Mitch LaRue" at all.

It's just a name I put together back when I first Registered here at C.O.W. because it seemed like everyone else had a Username that didn't seem to be their real name (and I figured I'd follow the trend).
"Mitch" just seemed like a good, solid, Western/Adventure-lovin'-type name and "LaRue" was just my nod to "Lash LaRue" - the whip-totin' cowboy from the "olden days".
A week or so ago someone on another thread mentioned that whenever they see a post from me that they "think of the 'Mitch LaRue' in the Garth Brooks Song..." I have NO idea what that's about!
But now - thanks to EchoSix - I find out that there actually IS a guy (here in Canada, no less!) who really IS named Mitch LaRue... Again, I had NO idea!
So, please... whether you're trying to reach me personally (or even if you want to simply say "Dude seriously, ease up on the use of BOLD print")... please leave the guy named Mitch LaRue (who's on facebook) alone.

MY name is Fox Lidstone.

Yes, that's right... my REAL name is actually MORE unlikely than the Username I was going by.
(Ironically, someone who ALSO goes by the name Fox - a "Fox Harrison" - joined the boards recently and I've read a few of his posts that end with him signing off:
"best,
Fox"
Needless to say, at times I'm on the cusp of an identity crisis.

Anyway, hope that makes things as clear as mud.
Let's get back on topic now.

Fox

Post by **Holt** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:30 pm

Fox is one of my favorite names ever.

Im jealous....

Hatch · Post by **Hatch** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:37 pm

Fox (Mitch)..........that'd be "Chris Ladoux" (sp) in the Garth Brooks song he was actually a Rodeo cowboy who had quite a record career himself before untimely death......

lot of "real" cowboys listened to his stuff and Garth was trying to capture that I think

VP · Post by VP » Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:46 pm

This guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_LeDoux

JC1972 · Post by **JC1972** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:59 pm

Cool, kind of like Fox Mulder.

jasonalun · Post by **jasonalun** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:59 pm

JC1972 wrote:Cool, kind of like Fox Mulder.

Yeah, that was my first thought - I'm a die-hard X-Files fan. And when "Mitch" said

my REAL name is actually MORE unlikely than the Username I was going by.

I couldn't help but think of the line from one of the episodes where Mulder gets his mind switched into the body of this middle-aged government spook who has a, um, "witch-y" wife, and a son and daughter who can't stand him, and he tries to tell his "wife" that he's really "Fox Mulder" and she tells him "most men, when they have a mid-life crisis, go out and buy a sports car, they don't run around calling themselves 'Fox!'"

Seriously, though - I think that's a cool name.

Heyjude7 · Post by **Heyjude7** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:50 am

Hey VP did you get your jacket yet?

VP · Post by VP » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:54 am

Nope, last spoke with them on April 1 when I confirmed my back length (26 inches). If I don't receive any update from them during next week I'll query about the order.

Heyjude7 · Post by **Heyjude7** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:01 am

i got this the other day

Your jacket has been cut, this will be started to be machined Thursday and ready to be dispatched Tuesday next week.
Thanks Gemma

bigrex · Post by **bigrex** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:05 pm

Mitch LaRue wrote:
EchoSix wrote:
Yes, that's right... my REAL name is actually MORE unlikely than the Username I was going by.
(Ironically, someone who ALSO goes by the name Fox - a "Fox Harrison" - joined the boards recently and I've read a few of his posts that end with him signing off:
"best,
Fox"
Needless to say, at times I'm on the cusp of an identity crisis.

Fox

Heh, on that subject I was beginning to wonder if your facebook name was the alias one. lol. ok, back on topic.

JC1972 · Post by **JC1972** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:10 pm

Heyjude7 wrote:i got this the other day

Your jacket has been cut, this will be started to be machined Thursday and ready to be dispatched Tuesday next week.
Thanks Gemma

Were they just informing you or did you ask them? Last email I have from them was 2 weeks ago that my order was in the processing stage.

Dutch_jones · Post by **Dutch_jones** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:52 pm

JC1972 wrote:
Heyjude7 wrote:i got this the other day

Your jacket has been cut, this will be started to be machined Thursday and ready to be dispatched Tuesday next week.
Thanks Gemma
Were they just informing you or did you ask them? Last email I have from them was 2 weeks ago that my order was in the processing stage.

Ditto

Heyjude7 · Post by **Heyjude7** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:32 pm

OCD me emailed them after 3 weeks from my order being processed and that was the reply

theinterchange · Post by **theinterchange** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:49 pm

Say I order a custom Wested, and I throw a laundry list of specs at them like say the Agent 5 or Holt measurements, will that jack the price up or will they just walk away saying.. Worst.. Customer... Ever! ? I guess I'm saying this, do a bunch of custom requirements make the custom price BIGGER?

Randy

Heyjude7 · Post by **Heyjude7** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:07 pm

for my custom raiders im waitin 4, i asked for a medium sized list and i only paid 5 pounds more.. and all i asked for was the small yolk with the back arm sleeve seam 1.25in below the yolk, pointy collar like Crusade, strongest thread, and collar in the mid of stormflap..
not much huh

crismans · Post by **crismans** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:19 pm

I asked for Holt's yolk specs, Marc's pocket specs, and reinforced stitching on my HH Raiders. It did raise the price quite a bit. It still wasn't unreasonable by any means but there was a noticeable jump.

Heyjude7 · Post by **Heyjude7** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:22 pm

the yolk i went for was the Holt yolk

Tibor · Post by **Tibor** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:21 pm

Guys, please... yoke, not yolk. We're talking like the yoke an ox wears when he pulls a plow, not the yellow of an egg (I hope)

crismans · Post by **crismans** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:56 pm

Tibor wrote:Guys, please... yoke, not yolk. We're talking like the yoke an ox wears when he pulls a plow, not the yellow of an egg (I hope)

You're absolutely right! That's what I get for typing fast while thinking about a million things.

Now, I'm off to edit my original post so everyone wonders what you're talking about.

Tibor · Post by **Tibor** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:03 pm

Hah! That Tibor's off talking about eggs or something. What a loon.