Well… over the summer this year I made a couple of custom leather seat covers for mine and my dad’s motorcycles because I was too cheap to pay someone a crazy price to do it. I saddle stitched those by hand, and it was brutal as far as time and effort. I really enjoyed the process, so last month I bought an industrial flat bed sewing machine to make more seat covers as a side hustle. I spent a few days getting acquainted with the machine as far as adjustments, etc. My jacket obsession led to me working up the nerve to try it, so I bought another cylinder arm industrial machine and a vintage domestic, then got to work! Did a canvas practice run and then made this puppy. I have zero prior experience sewing, but have worked with wood doing elaborate finish carpentry and some guitar making, so those skills sort of translated to leather for me. Thank you for the kind words!
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That's a great jacket. Swimming is handy for getting jackets to fit less snugly.
Biff42
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Thats amazing.
You had the aptitude for such an undertaking, but it was just a different medium. A luthier decides to make a leather jacket.
Dude. Fugg’n awesome!!!! I’m impressed man. Absolute fuckkng banger right out of the gate!!!
Yamahana
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Whoa there buckaroo! Very, very impressive work and results. Here I thought I was half a bad ass sewing buttons on my jacket. I tip my hat to you sir!
Ha, I’m far from a luthier! More like an idiot savant with my hands. Thanks!
Thanks Tony! I loved that old jacket, but it was giving up the ghost in the seams. Now she can live on.. if I make some more of these up, I’ll call that model the “Ton Up” as an homage, haha.
Thank you and everyone else for the kind words! Yamahana, you are 10 times the badass.. I bet those buttons are solid!
signsoflight
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Thanks, man! Sorry to hear about your jacket. I guess they really are hit-or-miss.
Viking752
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Northeaster Flying Togs Beck in distressed FQHH for a quick dinner run.
Thank you, much appreciated. It’s amazing how well an off the rack jacket can fit. May I ask why you gave yours up?
AeroFan_07
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Really amazing work right here!
Truly an interesting jacket and honestly and very marketable pattern and design. Even the leather & lining are just spot-on!
I got a size 40 off the rack as well, and it fit quite nicely, but I was wearing my Premier Highwayman more at the time and I went through a phase where I sold off a few jackets and guitars to justify buying another bike.. the one I regretted selling was the Dom! I sold the new bike later that year too. Go figure
Thanks man! I wasn’t 100% sure about the leather when I bought it, but was waaaay to nervous to spend $600-$800 on Badalassi or Shinki to do the first jacket with, but man oh man, this hide is really great for a jacket. Really nice drape already and by the time I turned the jacket several times during the sewing process, the grain started popping. As far as thickness/hand, it’s comparable to one of the lighter weight batch Vicenza jackets I’ve owned in the past. It’s advertised as a 3oz thickness, but varies across the hide, I’d say it’s 3 oz at its thickest. This liner is just basic smooth cotton, with cotton sateen in the sleeves, but it looks and feels pretty nice.
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I could not agree more. I put this jacket on at The Stronghold in Venice and I immediately said, "Hell yeah!"
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^leather in the wild doing real stuff.
