Double 0 Soul

Pfft!.. amateurs, you’re our ‘musician of the year’ .. every year!

Everyday's a school day when you have the memory of a goldfish.. So the only new infos is Ichiro Ueki potentially working for Evisu in the 90s ?

Remember those^ RRR's of mine which i sold to @Thanks_M8 I thought i could swing a 31" but they were a bit too snug anywho.. there is a size 32" listed on Mercari for anyone interested https://zenmarket.jp/en/mercariproduct.aspx?itemCode=m68879704515 They're a fantastic old, rare as fk repro from 1998..

Nearly right then.. either lost a bit in translation or the Evisu garment factory supervisor from the 90s and the owner of Gardener are the same person..

I was reading recently that Gardener were made by Evisu (what we previously suspected) using Evisu denim.. which is why we see the Take5 4 jeans collabs.. (Gardener, Dry Bones, Pherrows, Stormy Blue and such..) but what i didn't know was.. at that time (mid-late 90s) the Evisu factory supervisor's name was Ueki, hence the name on the tab.. it's just a happy accident that it reads Levi's when partially concealed by the pocket..

Easy.. just get within earshot of the bow bells of st. mary's.. dig a big hole, cover it with leaves, carefully place a pair of Ande Whall's in the center and just wait.. once he takes the bait.. don't let him out till he pays up.

..reimbursing a 20% share of the inevitable loss would be more like it

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1854056678/beautiful-mr-freedom-leather-lambskin?ref=shop_home_active_148&cns=1&logging_key=7f04b4c07dab2e36551a47ba1a9da3317adc267b%3A1854056678 This^ looks like it's hardly been worn.. it's in a vintage shop in Brighton, i'm sure @UkeNo wouldn't mind swinging by to check it out.

This is surely destined for the Pringle museum..

We already have a super denim collectible SC-47

I've got this on a Stones Throw 10yr Sampler CD It's a sentiment we can all empathise with ..

I was the same after Too Many Broken Hearts by Jason Donovan..

It's something i usually check before i buy rather than after delivery.. Might be just me (but i'm sure it's not)

No idea re- shrinkage, are they non-wash and unsanforised? Lovely colour 😍

Hmm.. if it was me, i'd scan each page individually, crop them for neatness, enhance the images and post them into their own thread... just sayin'

Amazing sky this morning on my ride to work.. Last part... .. i got the runner system and the pattern finished, this is the top half, the exothermic sleeves will fit over these locators, all of the flanges have a machined outer face, so the heads can be cut off and the remnants will be machined away, the only head which needs a bit of grinding / shaping will be the small pad over the body junction.. but better safe than sorry. I've put some padding behind the flange so the head can feed through the flange and into the body, there is no reason why this bit of padding can't be part of the finished cast part.. ..there are fancy equations to calculate the modulus but in layman's (is layman an anogram of maynard?) terms, you're fitting imagined spheres into what will become the casting.. so something like this (it's actually more like a compressed tennis ball shape) the center of the largest sphere will remain hot / be the last part to cool, so this will feed the casting, the neck has a similar volume to the flange, the sphere in the exo sleeve is smaller but the sleeve should keep it equally hot.. this boring ass mofo explains it a bit better.. Thanks for the interest everyone.. so who's next to explain what they do between sufu posts..?

Here you go @MJF9 https://www.timberland.co.uk/en-gb/c/men/accessories/laces-79548 https://williamlennon.co.uk/shop/leather-laces/ They're not recommendations, just a quick search..

You could shove an old leather belt through your pasta maker.

Looks amazing.. my mum is trying to grow lemons.. sadly they still look like small nobbly limes Sadly not, i'd love an apprentice to pass my knowledge onto.. but i would never recommend it as a career choice.. there is no future in pattern making, 70% of everything i learned during my apprenticeship has next to no modern day application.. and probably 50% of those skills are non transferable to other sectors.. it's all dependent on a buoyant industrial sector and there is hardly any industry left in the UK, even here in Sheffield, the spiritual home of steel making. Just these last few months, British Steel (which incidentally, is a Chinese company) stopped producing steel while they transition from a polluting blast furnace to a more environmentally friendly electric arc furnace, this can only be a good thing but due to lack of planning, they've closed the site resulting in 2800 job losses, the new arc furnace will not be operational till 2030..so we're not producing steel, we're buying it in.. the knock on effect of this has devastated their suppliers, some of whom were my customers, good 3rd generation family businnesses .. it's just been a steady decline since the outsourcing of the 90s / victims of globalisation... few got richer, many got poorer. Secondly.. I've been quoting against machines for the last decade which has driven prices down so i have to work more hours to make the same amount of money.. Lastly, whatever time i spend training someone is time away from my job, when there are 8 other people producing work for 10hrs/day, if one of them spends 5hrs/day training an apprentice, the cost to your output as a company is negligible, but when you only have one person, that 5hrs/day will result in a 50% loss of production.. i'm not making enough money to shoulder it. Ikr.. it's a 20min ride from home so many folks take the Peaks for granted.. when they're out there, they say "my god! this is incredible, we should do this every weekend.. 6mths later "we should go out to the Peaks we haven't done it for ages" .. I could watch boulderers all day @julian-wolf .. folks think it's just about slapping some chalk on your hands and climbing up a rock.. but they'll arrive, with numerous books, they'll find an unoccupied rock, pull out a book, sit down and study routes, pull out field notes and start making notes and sketches of where holds are.. then mime it out.. this is before they've even pulled on rock shoes

When i was around 14yrs old.. my dad had a Pools round, he would go around the neighbourhood collecting Pools coupons.. (folks gambling on the results of football matches).. one of the guys who played the Pools was a master pattern maker, my dad was always fascinated by his work, one day this guy asked if i would like a Saturday morning job in the patternshop, sweeping up, fetching the sandwiches, painting / finishing patterns.. Did I ever!.. I got paid £6 for 4hrs work and a pay rise to £8 for 4hrs Saturday morning in year 2... It was awesome!. When i was 16 i did work experience there and the guy who owned the business offered me a 6yr apprenticeship as a master pattern maker when i left school.. i did go to tech college 1 day/wk for a short period but due to my experience, my abilities were probably a bit too advanced for the course.. in hindsight, i should have been a dentist There was 8 other master pattern makers in the workshop all with different skill sets / fields of expertise.. one was a master woodcarver, i worked alongside him for the first 12months as his apprentice, we carved restoration work after the fire at York Minster, mainly the decorative bosses wich fit between the roof trusses in the ceiling.. I think this was their way of familiarising me with hand tools.. These were old school gentleman patternmakers who would arrive at work in a shirt and tie, hair immaculate, waistcoat and jacket, their sandwiches in a briefcase.. (a bit like the faux instagram woodworkers you see today) .. they would hang their jacket on a coat hanger, roll up their shirt sleeves and wear a brown smock over the top.. they were doing it to keep their clothing clean / make it last.. unlike me, i never wore a smock. ...anywho, during my 6yr apprenticeship, i worked alongside each specialty craftsman for 1yr.. we made pattern equipment for JCB and Tarmac, I worked for the MOD, i made tank tracks and prototyped all the cast parts for the Typhoon Eurofighter.. i made cast iron street furniture (i still do) i even made a keel for a racing catamaran In the days before 3D computer modeling, i did a lot of product development modeling, where i would make an exact copy of a Morphy Richards toaster for instance from 3d drawings, before funding for the upcoming product range was made available, they would have a tactile representation of their product made, people could make decisions regarding aesthetics at this stage.. I also developed the Black & Decker Mouse, I spent a year learning how to make fibreglass car body panels and fairground rides.. Topographical model making and such.. but 60% of our work was traditional pattern making / engineering products.. stuff for petrochemical, offshore drilling, pumping systems. The only guy there who didn't wear a brown smock was Tom, who wore a blue boiler suit... he'd previously worked in a foundry as a methods engineer, which is where i get my metallurgy knowledge regarding runner systems / feeding castings.. (nowadays it's all modeled on the computer) at this time i was in the heart of Sheffield's bustling industrial quarter surrounded by Braun Medical, Stanley Tools, Record Ridgeway, Eclipse Magnetic..ect When i finished my apprenticeship, i was the youngest fully time served Master Patternmaker in South Yorkshire.. and 30yrs later, i still am. The company i did my apprenticeship for.. moved into larger premises owned by a multi-national engineering company (Holtec) it meant we got 100% of their work while remaining an independent mastershop.. it was a good move.. but as the older patternmakers approached retirement, the company owner was diagnosed with cancer, his only daughter was in the banking sector so i always thought the business was coming my way.. (so did he) alas, it wasn't to be, Holtec aggressively took over, there was nothing i could do.. they said it was always their plan after the owner retired, it was their premises, 70% of the work was theirs, they offered me a managerial role so i decided to take the remaining 30% of our customer base and left.. within 3yrs the UK arm of their operation was closed. Since 2011 i've been part of a project, to upscale and fully automate a process which was traditionally small scale lab work, it's a means to extract, impurities from crude or natural gas, recycle the impurities while purifying the product.. it was so successful they got a Kings award for innovation, the production is vast.. i started by building single person pneumatic work stations, it worked so it's been upscaled into large scale factory format.. my part of the project was to develop a way of producing the shapes, their part of the project was to upscale so the product is now produced by the tonne and shipped worldwide instead of by the bucketload.. The first meeting we had in the boardroom, it was me and all their hierarchy.. the owner of the company stood up, pointed around the table and said "I can do all of your jobs (stopped at me and said) but i can't do his, which is why he's here" ..

Agreed..

Much better looking too.. The bike not cheap's arse.. but there again, it is a Crossfire

Typical Sunday for me.. Rode up to Burbage Hoped over the road to Stanage Ahhh! Noooooooooo Boulderers out in force enjoying the sunshine.. they had frizbee and everything Up to Stanage Pole and down to Redmires ..around the reservoir.. up to Lodgemoor, through the Mayfield Valley and home ..cleaning my bike with a can of Ting, featuring mud splattered JMC sweatshirt

I can almost feel the sense of job satisfaction emitting from the screen

My god! .. essentially, that's what i wrote on the previous page but without the pictures Fk this shit.. it took me hours to compose.. i'm using copilot for my sufu posts in future..