Same experience, very quick answers from Nick at Vanson. Mine is from June 1995.
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I heard from Nick. Mine is #76634A**01 is from Oct. 2011 , not as old as I thought.
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I like all CW.
There is like 25 years or so of the “good CW”. Early stuff was grainy as heck but more lightweight. Still awesome. The real early stuff is too thin for my liking. More recent stuff is still excellent, but different.
I wish they still had the X-150 and Octagon. Their replacements are good but somehow lacking. I think Vanson agrees because, as Carlos said, they are still looking for that home run waxy recipe.
There is like 25 years or so of the “good CW”. Early stuff was grainy as heck but more lightweight. Still awesome. The real early stuff is too thin for my liking. More recent stuff is still excellent, but different.
I wish they still had the X-150 and Octagon. Their replacements are good but somehow lacking. I think Vanson agrees because, as Carlos said, they are still looking for that home run waxy recipe.
I know we talked about this years ago. The early Vanson Harley collab was in the really amazing early batches of X-150. It’s not the same at all anymore. I should have just bought one then. Missed my shot.
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Agree 1000%. X-150 was in my top 2 hides. Octagon right there too.
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Do we know when the original , good comp weight was no longer used? The tannery burned or closed down i remember reading here. I had a model J from 2000 that was no question a very good comp weight. My C2 built in 2011 I am not quite sure, great leather and Vanson told me comp weight but does that mean the good years? Or is competition weight their standard name for the leather regardless of tannery.
No idea but that’s kind of why I said late 80s to early 2000s. Sometime in the mid 2000s I don’t know if they changed tannery or just formulate a bit. But it changed. Still really good. Heavier I think. Cement like even. Took longer to break in, and wasn’t quite the same. A notch or two lower in terms of beauty but still pretty good. Then the tannery fire incident and now none of their stuff is the same. I think two of the tanneries they were using closed down. So X-150 and CW are both different now. As @JMax said before like late 80s or early 90s what they had as CW was a lot thinner and not as nice either. But it’s all nice. Vanson never has bad stuff. Just not the same. I had a model E from the 90s that was just a touch too big that I wish I kept cause it was so nice. Then a Chopper from like 2015 or 16 both in CW and that was the heavier, duller built like cement jacket. It would survive the apocalypse but wasn’t nearly as nice to look at.
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And good to be back. Popped in to sell some stuff and figured I might stick around for a bit.
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