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At last my CSF 1941 s409xxx model have finally been hemmed so they can now return to the rotation of jeans of which l enjoy wearing. @Mr Black did an outstanding job as usual even going so far as to replicate the dual orange/yellow stitching on the original hems. Photos show Og hem off cuts compared to freshly sewn new hems. Compared to the other pair l have (1944 s409xxx) these are much darker but my modern camera phone just can't capture it, even under cloudy skies. Probably due to my lack of understanding of modern phones but anyway you get the general idea.

Enjoyed watching African Head Charge and Mad Professor last night

Molleton 130 Worn on and off for a couple years now. Really love them, and trying to make them my everyday pair or at least in heavy rotation more recently. Such great fabric ❤️

couple months of hard wear on these jeans. Gave them a warm wash today

I'll upload fit pictures a bit later. They fit great.

Astros / Flat Head / Denime / Warehouse / 70s Chucks

Chest bag / fanny pack / sling for my great friend @srudy Badalassi Carlo No Fin, with Japanese cloth lining (and I made a drawstring bag for the bag with that too) and AustriAlpin ‘cobra’ buckle and slides … all hand sewn naturally

running some cast iron pipe for waste and vent. copper for water that blue collar worker fade going on

-CH is 50 percent cotton => less plastic than - DS. So, he's right. Also irl it's feels more like natural fabric tho.

Dorothea Lange - Untitled (American Country Man, Gunlock, Utah) Gunlock, UT, 1953

Love looking at old photos where you can see how differently people wore their 501's in terms of the buckle adjuster. Here we have Walter Latta, at his ranch in Bozeman Montana (1939) and his straps are hanging loose. Whereas in the previous ^^photos one cowboy has had his straps cut off and the other wears a thinner width belt to allow both belt and buckle strap done up.

Stole this from the interweb. San Francisco 1942. Guy on the left looks to be wearing a fresh out of the box Levis 213 with a pocket flap judging by the buttons. Cool photo.

Those fit you better than they ever fit me. Very cool pants; congratulations on the score

The neppy fabric looks great and they fit well too. 👍

Yes, maybe that's why. Cheers mate, will try it next time

@superfuture Here^ is a good example of what myself and @Geeman were discussing when using the upload tool. 2 of the 3 pics are on their side, which were not intentional. When l saw they were on their side in the preview, l went back to my photo gallery and compensated by preemptively moving them once round in preparation. This had no effect so l am stumped, maybe it's just a case of Computer says No.

Looks more like a Robert Deniro and Jean Reno cross breed to me 🤣

What about the lovechild of Sean Penn and Gary Oldman in the 3rd photo? Is he an LVC model, a late 19th century futurist or a mid-20th century dude in an old jacket?

Ah shit- just read your post doc- oh fudge

WTS P32-DS Size M full pack some light piling on right cargo pocket $550 Shipped in US

It hurts to see retailer prices

Shameless self-promotion. My band put out an LP today. Straightforward hardcore FFO Lockin Out Records type shit.

Cut my denim up the other day. Spent last night sewing front pockets, yoke seams, back rise seam, and back pockets. Had a lot of fun on the back pockets. My first name is Ryan, so I did a lowercase R for the arcs. Also made a tab outta the same fabric I used for the pocket bags which I think looks sharp. Compensating feet are a game changer. They make it so even a novice garment maker like myself can get professional looking seams. Only wish I could find low shank ones that are wider than 6mm. I used a 3mm one for several seams last night though and it was a dream. Thanks for looking! Oh also, the test pair has belt loops and a hem now too, just needs buttons and rivets and they'll be wearable.

That’s the retailers price mate I think, trade price in euro to buy from ACRMN.

Forgot to post this a couple of weeks ago but here’s my stab at a Take Ivy esque look (also no denim) Columbiaknit rugby shirt/J Press shirt/Buzz Rickson WW2 chinos/Rancourt beefroll loafers in eggplant honcho leather

Finally got myself a Flat Head shirt. FW cap Companion Dunrite Belt/vintage buckle/Hollows key gizmo Lofgren

This hoodie is the closest thing I own to red for Valentine’s Day. Freewheelers hoodie. Freewheelers 601XX-C. John Lofgren Devil’s Causeway.

Some photos of my 1970 WH 1101 BigE after a 40 degree wash. W33. The cut is really good, the fabric too, superb texture. I have a question about the fabric, I read that the fabric used for these jeans was newly developed for this model. Does anyone know if the fabric used by Levis for the 501 BigE in the early 70s is very close to that used by WH on this model? I would be curious to get an opinion from someone who has been able to compare the two.

Nothing specific, but if anyone is a size LARGE and wants to chat about potential trades, just drop me a line. I've got a pretty deep collection going back right to the early days, and could always be up for some interesting offers.

Got to meet the legend himself well chuffed

Pulled these 50s out of the closet for the first time in a while.

@Toegun I made the same purchase—a really great deal. The texture of the barley twist fabric is really extraordinary, as comes across nicely in your photos, and the dyes have taken so well to it. In addition to the tan wattle Millwheel, I also picked up an Achilles Heel indigo Didcot shirt in the winter sales. I just can't get enough of the barley twist!

Not as scientifically important but still fun: My parents got a yuzu tree a few months back. Fruits and all, in the fruits were lots of seeds (around 20) about 1,3 cm diameter. So huge seeds for a citrus. Since our own yuzu died because it was grafted on a less hardy rootstock, we were on the search for a replacement for a while and behold: We put the seeds in germination containers and nothing happened for a good while. 6 - 8 weeks germination (1 still hasn't put it's head out, even though it is rooting), a bit of water and a warm spot and we got 6 plants, 1 coming. Let's hope they all pull through

In September of last year, I joined an experiment aiming to do ultracold atomic physics with titanium. Traditionally, most ultracold experiments use elements from the first and second groups of the periodic table, which are relatively easy candidates for laser trapping and cooling due to their simple electron structure. In certain contexts, this same simplicity limits the types of interactions that can be engineered in the quantum systems that we build, which makes it appealing to look towards preparing ultracold samples of transition metals. This involves some added complication, and the experiment that I recently joined has been actively working towards generating a magneto-optical trap (MOT) of titanium for around 5 years, now. A MOT amounts to a cold (but not yet quantum-degenerate) dilute gas of atoms at a temperature of around 1 mK, and is the first step in most experiments involving ultracold atoms or molecules. As a point of reference, outer space has a temperature of 2.7 K, around 1000 times hotter. Once a cloud of a few hundreds of thousands of atoms is trapped in a MOT, they can be handed off to other more versatile traps and used toward any number of science goals—but most experiments involve this as a first step. In mid-October, we finally observed the world’s first MOT of titanium. This involves two colors of lasers—one at a wavelength of 391 nm, which is invisible to the human eye, and one at 498 nm, which is a beautiful teal color. It's been a pleasure working with this color of light, both from a technical and from an aesthetic perspective, and it's made the pictures very fun to show off. The trapped atoms themselves are the little teal dot in the first and last photos. For these photos, only around 1000 atoms were present, but they were still visible to the naked eye—which is really cool to me.

I think we need to get the expert opinion of @Double 0 Soul for this

A new project: penknives, made in England on a brass skeleton with nickel bolsters at each end, a carbon steel blade and scales cut from pear wood from a tree in our garden. Here are some pictures of the making process, at a three-person factory. Here's the timber for the scales (sides of the knife handle), left over from some work done on a ~250 year old pear tree in our garden, that was splitting. The timber was seasoned over four years in a dry woodshed, and then inside for the last year, to stabilise it. The first thing to do is to cut it down to size, on a band saw, first into a thin flat slice, and then into individual bars for the scales: thin brass sheet skeleton pieces are then laid on top, and the scales are drilled through the plate, in the places where the rivets will be: A bolster is a metal piece at the junction between the blade an the handle of a knife. It strengthens the joint and smoothes the shape between the two materials. In kitchen knives it also covers the end grain of wooden scales, which could be unhygienic. In a pocket knife, I was a bit concerned about having sharp corners of wood exposed to knocks, so this knife has an additional bolster at the hilt end. These bolsters are pressed out of nickel, and are drilled through the skeleton as well, on either end of the pear wood scales, keeping everything lined up nice and tightly: here's the matching pair all lined up but not yet fastened together: The bolsters are now soldered in place, to hold everything properly aligned before it's all riveted: Next, the back spring is fitted. Pressed out of steel plate, it's drilled out and profiled to match the handle shape: the blade is a deadstock British Army pattern, made in Sheffield of a mid carbon content steel. Low carbon tarnishes less (stainless), but is relatively soft and doesn't hold a sharp edge well. Too high a carbon content and the blade can be brittle- it's very hard and doesn't blunten, but is difficult to sharpen and not really suitable for a general-purpose pocket knife like this: Here's the knife made up on long rivet pins, not yet fixed in place: but for now, the blade is taken back out, and a piece of steel the same thickness is inserted between the scales to stop anything bending, then the bolster and spring rivets are hammered into place the ends and sides of the scales now get the first, rough, sanding to shape them to the brass skeleton now the blade is slotted into place, and another rivet wire is fitted and snipped off The back of the knife is ground down so that it will all line up flat once it's riveted. At this point the blade hasn't been sharpened, so the following processes aren't quite as risky as they look! The snap of the spring can now be tested and the blade shape adjusted if necessary Now the blade rivet is hammered into place, and the scales are rounded off to match the shape of the nickel bolsters finally, the blade is factory-sharpened on a grindstone and the handle is printed, then it's finished! most knife handles would be sealed, but I preferred to leave the wood with just a light oiling- this way it will darken and take on indigo from jeans pockets, over time. I hope this has been interesting! It's been lovely for me to learn about a new craft, and fun to do a post about it- it's been a while, as most of the production techniques for clothing have been covered earlier in the thread. I've had my own knife a couple of months now, and it's looking lovely. Updates as it evolves.

Some random late 1930's Levi and Lee cowboy pics, stolen from the workwearyears on lg -

George Harrison tending to some flowers. From Pinterest.

Tcb suit.

Miles Davis and his ferrari

Scotchgrain calfskin with Buttero strap, flap lining and zip reinforcement details, LOXX fastener and antique brass snaps and d-rings

More of the same trip, 1954.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Lol, you know CH is partly made from synthetic fibres as well, right? CH is as much plastic as DS, really.