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    Where to get vintage watch fixed?

    Glad to help. Bulovas are great. I wear one pretty much every day.
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    Where to get vintage watch fixed?

    Accutrons are kinda their own thing. They don't really fall under the mechanical or quartz umbrellas. For anyone else that might be following along, they're mostly mechanical, but regulated by an electrically stimulated tuning fork. If you hold it up to your ear, instead of ticking, it hums...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Take the art and creativity away from Fivestar (who has proven to lack it in the first place) and give it to the person commissioning the jacket...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    The exact point in figuring out how to code for the machine is to take the art and creativity aspects away from Fivestar for that very reason. I want the end result of this little exercise to be a Fivestar order form of sorts along the lines of "starting with the 'Fedora Lounge Cafe Racer' core...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    So don't play. I'm not trying to rehash any debates, I'm trying to move the conversation along. Fivestar clearly isn't a designer fashion house, and JQ Publique clearly aren't fashion designers. Tim Gunn isn't riding us to "get it done" (or whatever his catch phrase was). What Fivestar IS is a...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Simulpost! I'm not saying the darting (don't have a better term yet, and that's what I've been calling it in my head all week) is necessary, just a method that I have in front of me that adds both curvature AND dimension. Personally, I also like the detail of it for the style that's in my head...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Right. It narrows the panel, and in so doing, it curves the panel and gives some dimension. Other examples of the same: This one does it, but ends in pleats: In concert with an action gusset thing. This one looks sort of pleat-ish, but I think it's just the thickness of the leather: This one...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    It’s not. It’s a canvas trucker. A wedge of material was removed, and then it was sewn back together to give the otherwise flat panel three dimensions. If it’s not called a dart (darting?) what is it? It looks to be the same technique being employed in the jacket backs (though Marc’s isn’t cut...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    I goofed... pretend I quote responded to @Aloysius 's last post. This: A wedge of material has been removed, and then it was sewn back together to create a 3 dimensional shape in the sleeve. and this: and the left panel of this (@Marc mndt , I believe), only it looks like an inside out...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Oh, also, I've noticed that people tend to ignore the linings. Lots of opportunity in the lining for cool details.
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Last night, I finished reading all (ALL) 7,767 posts and 389 pages of this thread. Took me just about every spare minute across 9 full days, including one weekend where it got down to -20° here, and I became one with my warm and comfy recliner. I'm an engineer, and it's been said before that...
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    Where to get vintage watch fixed?

    I'm something of a watchmaker. Amateur/avocational rather than a professional, but I'm equipped and skilled to do services and minor repairs. I have a decently equipped bench, several tens of watches kicking around at any time that I essentially just play at. I buy them cheap and barely running...
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