An Interview With Ken Calder from Aero

[dudewuttheheck]

I was able to do an interview with Ken from Aero after he responded to an article I wrote. I'm not sure how much of this information is new to anyone here, but maybe you guys will find this interesting.

https://almostvintagestyle.com/2018/10/31/an-interview-with-ken-calder-or-aero-leather/

 

[Bigbenbs]

Really interesting.

I wonder Japanese brands he was referring to here:

"Gluing seams is very popular amongst Japanese makers, it’s a huge aid to neat stitching but sadly it makes the jackets near on impossible to unpick or to repair any broken stitching, gluing the front edges alongside the zipper makes is so much easier to do a very neat top stitch but extremely difficult to replace a broken zipper neatly. If the top stitch is too small that job goes from extremely difficult to impossible. An Aero jacket is put together in exactly the same way as the ones I repaired back in the late 70s, very few of these original jacket would have survived had they been glued and skived like so many of the current offering by others in this field."

 

[hondurasdave47]

Cool interview! Thanks for sharing, Jake!

 

[Boyo]

Congrats Dude, nice write-up.

 

[Harris HTM]

I was able to do an interview with Ken from Aero after he responded to an article I wrote. I'm not sure how much of this information is new to anyone here, but maybe you guys will find this interesting.

https://almostvintagestyle.com/2018/10/31/an-interview-with-ken-calder-or-aero-leather/

Well done! May I recommend a small correction? Freddie Mercury indeed worked for Ken but back at that time Aero was not yet established.
Ps- congratulations on your site!

 

[dudewuttheheck]

Really interesting.

I wonder Japanese brands he was referring to here:

"Gluing seams is very popular amongst Japanese makers, it’s a huge aid to neat stitching but sadly it makes the jackets near on impossible to unpick or to repair any broken stitching, gluing the front edges alongside the zipper makes is so much easier to do a very neat top stitch but extremely difficult to replace a broken zipper neatly. If the top stitch is too small that job goes from extremely difficult to impossible. An Aero jacket is put together in exactly the same way as the ones I repaired back in the late 70s, very few of these original jacket would have survived had they been glued and skived like so many of the current offering by others in this field."

I do too, but I don't think he wants to call out specific names, which is totally fair.

Cool interview! Thanks for sharing, Jake!

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it.

Congrats Dude, nice write-up.

Thanks! I appreciate it

Well done! May I recommend a small correction? Freddie Mercury indeed worked for Ken but back at that time Aero was not yet established.
Ps- congratulations on your site!

Thank you! I will make that correction right away.

 

[mygar]

Cool... i read some and bookmarked for future reference.

 

[Jejupe]

Nice read! thanks!

 

[Benny Holiday]

Thanks Dude, very interesting!