BK After a Wash and Dry Treatment Plus Pecards

[Glenville86]

[indymassilia]

The leather give now a true and unique nature,nice job !

[Cajunkraut]

You're way braver than I am, and it's lookin' good!

[giantthugee86]

Looks like Stegosaurus hide. lol

[Duck9000]

You're way braver than I am, and it's lookin' good!

Same here. I don't have the nerves to do that! . Anyway, it looks great!

[Kt Templar]

There you go, ribby merino. It's amazing how much is hidden in normal tanning and if it is there can be pulled out with a good wash and dry. Mental jacket.

[Tennessee Smith]

I did the same thing with my limited edition striated lamb from US Wings a couple of years ago. Mine came out with the dino-hide but it was nothing in comparison to yours.

That is one awesome looking jacket.

[Glenville86]

Got to figure if Indy jumped in the warm river water and got the jacket completely soaked and the jacket dried in the hot sun, it would have a similar look to it.

[Tibor]

I think perhaps too much of a good thing for my tastes. I loved Kelso's first gen hide that was very subtle with a few striations. Later versions have gotten grainier and with hot water treatment, we've returned to an almost Wested "crispe" texture. A lot of people described some early Nowaks as Dino-hide, and they were perhaps not quite as extreme.

Now all that said, while not what I see on screen, it's totally outrageous and has its own great vibe.

[afalzon]

Fyi we have returned to the subtle hides.

[Glenville86]

On this jacket, I did not use hot water but rather a low warm 15-minute gentle cycle. It was put in the dryer for 2-different 15-minute low temp cycles. I wore it for awhile after the first dryer cycle and then put it back in the dryer for the last 15-minute cycle and wore until completely dry. So - no high heat on the wash and minimal heat on the dry.

The results were interesting and it came out more "aged" looking than I expected. It is unique now and by no means has a SA finish to it. It does look like a jacket that has been to Heck and back and still fully functional.

[CM]

I don't think it looks beat up or even broken in. It just looks like a fairly new but ribbed/shrunken finish which reminds me a lot of 1980's lambskin I used to see on jackets at flea markets. The movie jacket may have had such a finish but I've never noticed it on screen. I think it looks perfectly fine. If you're pleased that's all that matters.