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Looking for decent optics in NYC, can't really spend massive premium. Should I bother with a boutique or just get best-of mall ish?

Not mine, I just saw it on their blog. I don't read Japanese so I'm just assuming it was done by hand, which is incredible.

From the OOE blog. I don't even know how this happens.

If you don't mind paying through the nose for a perfect piece, La Rosa in Haight-Ashbury SF has a lot of Pendleton and Woolrich.

I only have one shirt, will post tomorrow.

Super chill, just stands there scoping the scene. It's actually hard to get him to bark, even when you play with him, but when he does it's scary. So it's a good thing he doesn't. Nice dog, a little slobbery.

myparentswereawesome.tumblr.com

Not my dad, but a cool triumph.

saw this dog in taiwan just chillin

My friends dog Bear. Chills like this for like an hour a day.

Thanks Zisssou for the link. I just called and they are sending swatches of the blue indigo cloth and some indigo prints. I'll let you know when I receive them. $65/yd., ouch! And thanks for the heads-up raWorkshop

Yeah, that's why I went with the grey, no way I could experiment with $100 of fabric. It sounds like they get new stuff all the time too.

Those prints must have a beautiful hand feel for $38/yard for a 53 inch cut. Quite nippy.

I picked up some light grey chambray for a shirt project. Anybody in San Francisco should check out Britex Fabrics (on Greary) near Union Square. Prices are high but quality is good and there's 4 floors of it. On the second floor they have a few bolts of amazing Japanese indigo died cloth.

The jacket is dope, good job on the hidden rivets.

I see nothing off with that rear pocket stitching? Unless there's a mini bartack on the outside, but still.

Also, remember that selvedge fabrics have two separate selvage lines, the black line is probably just there so if there are any defects in the milling process they can know which side of which loom is messed up

Future first time motorcycle owner here. Taking the MSF this next spring, looking at Triumphs and Enfields - found this local in the area for 2500. A rebuilt 2004 Royal Triumph Bullet, comes with a vintage kit and an optional double seat at 115 original miles. Any advice from the more experienced bike owners on here?

Are you an experienced wrencher on automobiles? Those bikes (not recent triumphs) need lots of care and loving. Especially as a new rider you should be focusing on the road and not the state of your bike. I wouldn't recommend anything with drum brakes to a beginner. Don't get a nice classic and thrash it on the pavement, get a beater, beat it some more, then get a fun little classic.

I've been in the shop, was kinda non plussed by the denim but the pictures look better than I remember. They ride the name hard in the shop, little museum like display about the old mill etc.

how about a benchmade opportunist (440)?

i've got one

great little blade

not my pic:

That's pretty sexy, can you put a clip on it? I'm sans man bag most days.

^that's gorgeous

nice braid up there raWorkshop. i've always wanted a nice vintage pocket watch to attached to something like that, but it's impossible for to find a decent priced working antique watch. i don't even want any special materials, just the classic hands and watchface!

Well the watch is Swiss Army pocket watch, still in production and about 3 times as beastly as any vintage watch I've handled. I was looking for a vintage piece but they all lack the heft, this one is only a few design cues from being pretty perfect. The reign is by Hollows Leather on this forum. The watch came with a nasty little metal chain, but any wallet reign will do.

Looking for another good pen and a way better wallet. Maybe a light too. I used to carry a Gerber all the time but I kept donating them to fellow camp ground goers looking for a classy little wood handled knife.

"Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.

What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.

And all music is."

— Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions)

First selvedge pair I made. 15th month.

Industrially produced cotton is one of the most destructive and resource intensive plants. Anybody who is buying insane amounts and not using them to their fullest, or rotating/scheduling it so they will, is being fundamentally irresponsible. Labels be damned.

Buying vintage isn't some existential experiment, you do it because it's still there and still good. The energy costs are already sunk.

Good job buddy! Fit is ++, especially for a first pair.

The jean they have on cultizm isn't bad at all. Looks like the rivets have to go through little bits of leather, too.

Hand finished by Our Hiro in Japan!

Terribly interesting.

Checking in, sorry I've been absent, I think I wrote the whole thing off a few months ago.

Jaco, send me a PM if you need any advice making your homemades.

Other pocket just needed some lovin'

Normally I'd have gone for a much more elegant repair than this, but you remember the redwine. You see, the red wine went much faster than the repairs and so I just added some more belt loop I had in the sewing drawer.

And some boring crotch repairs, no pics.

Well I don't know how you guys spend your Saturday nights but here was last weeks doings.

Red wine and leftovers

and

an old Singer 15/19/whatever. I picked it up from a Salvation Army for 27 dollars, dropped some oil in it and it is a goddamned monster.

It was mine back at school in Syracuse, I had no room for it in the car so I gave it told this dude in my apartment building that his pregnant girlfriend could have the machine if she wanted. And I left. And a few weeks ago I went back, for homecoming. Preggers lady went to baby daddy "what if this baby doesn't look like you?"

:eek:

She ran away, leaving my beautiful machine in the cold dark hallway. And thus my homecoming sewing machine rescue was born.

Anyways.

I always +rep this kind of repair because I suck so fucking bad at it. The sewing machine is my way.

Moleskin/iPhone damage

Reinforced the bottom, patched the corner

What were you riding in the dirt with hardbags that couldn't take a fall? Strange combo.

Get a Clymers manual, and get new tires. Take the MSF. Enjoy it, cool little bike, looks like it's in good condition. Be sure to check the tank for rust too.