What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

[Downunder G Man]

From today's Thursday Harley ride north of Perth Western Australia.
Pulled up the bikes at the roadside to get the regenerating bush after the bushfires of recent.
A bit of winter rain and off it goes again. The Australian bush is fire "resistant" , some plants have become "fire dependent"
Grainy shot taken by 'phone across a 2 lane blacktop.
Jacket today is my Schott 641HH Café racer. Nice and close fitting for a cool day run. 5C start 16C at 1pm.

 

[Carlos840]

Did you ask for deleting the belt loops? What kind of change of pattern did you ask for? Very handsome jacket!

Hey muscle,
I removed the belt loops, the back dip, the badge holder, and the collar snaps, also removed the sheepskin from the wrists and had it replaced with deerskin like on the Leathertogs.
I also had him use a Crown main zipper and some no 10 nickel C&C zippers for wrists and pockets.
I asked for two collars, one brown, one fairfield (natural)

The pattern changes were made on the remake.
The original was a regular 42L and was too baggy for me in the waist, he remade the jacket with a 42 upper part (shoulders and arms) but going down to a 40 below the pits.
This is actually the new standard pattern now, so older CHPs will be baggier than new ones.
Old pattern looked really "bulbous" and rounded on me, new one is trim and V shaped, but without being as intensely trim and short as a Cal.

I will post pics comparing both patterns when it is broken in and ready to review...

 

[JMax]

^ Now that's a proper zip. Can you get that gauge zipper with Aero horsehide jackets, or just LW?

It is a beast. Smooth too. As far I know, only Langlitz and LW have large gauge Crown zips in stock. But I don’t know much, to be clear.

I couldn’t get Aero/TB to install a large gauge zipper on my Chips.

 

[MrProper]

 

[borisna]

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WHOAAA!!
Whats the jacket and the leather??

 

[MrProper]

WHOAAA!!
Whats the jacket and the leather??

Thx
It's a modified "The Route 66" in Shinki HH from https://fieldleathers.com/product/the-route-66/

 

[Robbie79]

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@MrProper It is such a beauty and the grain and colour are looking spectacular!

 

[Robbie79]

LW LT B

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@JMax It's a beauty and I'm glad that it fits you so well. At the first glance I thought that it's a FW Centinela but then I saw the Crown zipper and remembered that you had one on order. Did you choose the 4oz+ HH?

 

[JMax]

Thanks Robbie. It is 4+oz, jacket weighs a bit over 7 lbs. But it is the recent, more pliable out-of-the box leather. Really easy to wear. My older LWs are much stiffer.

 

[Hh121]

Thanks Robbie. It is 4+oz, jacket weighs a bit over 7 lbs. But it is the recent, more pliable out-of-the box leather. Really easy to wear. My older LWs are much stiffer.

too light for this kind of jacket in my opinion, but you look great!!

 

[Carlos840]

^ Now that's a proper zip. Can you get that gauge zipper with Aero horsehide jackets, or just LW?

It's a size 10 spring loaded Crown, i have them on all my LW and they are without a doubt the finest zippers i have tried. They are NOS from the 40s-50s i think and are not made anymore.
Technically you could put one on anything, it's only a zipper, I know Langlitz has a few in store, i guess you just have to find one, they are not common.
LW sells them for $250, i think Langlitz is $175 or something like that, expensive but definitely worth it.

Edit: i am pretty sure Aero would refuse to use a zipper this big, they love tiny no5 ones. But i guess you could have Johnson make you a jacket with one, althought i think you might have to source the zipper yourself.

 

[borisna]

Thx
It's a modified "The Route 66" in Shinki HH from https://fieldleathers.com/product/the-route-66/

Dammit!!! I almost got this one for my Idaho from Greg!! Went with pigment Shinki instead...

 

[ABCD]

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Beautiful!

 

[JMax]

too light for this kind of jacket in my opinion, but you look great!!

Is this HH V1 or 2.0 speaking?

Thanks bud. I dig it.

 

[roadking04]

LW LT B

Perfect Fit my friend.

 

[SilverKast]

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That looks fantastic! It's exactly the sort of fit and look I'm trying to find, which is how I came across this site and all of the great info I've been finding here. I started out with something like this from Taylor Stitch, but unfortunately it doesn't fit my shape so I'm looking for alternatives. Little did I know the rabbit hole this site would lead to, unfortunately my wife isn't too impressed as it's just like when I got into watches haha.

 

[JMax]

Perfect Fit my friend.

Thanks. You should try out a LW when you get a chance. I bet it makes riding the RG in the winter a bit easier.

 

[roadking04]

Thanks. You should try out a LW when you get a chance. I bet it makes riding the RG in the winter a bit easier.

They are on the short list. Some days its the speed demon, and other days its the J23. Just when I have my heart set on a J23, our friend @Monitor, puts up some pics of his speed demon.

 

[Monitor]

They are on the short list. Some days its the speed demon, and other days its the J23. Just when I have my heart set on a J23, our friend @Monitor, puts up some pics of his speed demon.

You know it makes sense.

 

[JMax]

Yes, it does...