Club Obi Wan

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

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

Looks like Stegosaurus hide. lol

Cajunkraut wrote: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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fyi we have returned to the subtle hides.

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.

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.