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My wife had to get up early so I was up aswell. 

Figured I go up on the next hill and watch the sun come up.

@Double 0 Soul might need your proxy services after all one day, seems like I can't get the dark roast in germany....

^haven't seen this yet, worth getting a 6 pack? Does it separate as much as the creamy? Def. Need to check how to get it in germany!

Looks like the 1955z is part of the standard lineup now 🙂

@smoothsailor sounds like something actually really fun. How long have you been welding in general? From what I gathered, a good weld-seam is kind off an art. 

Re bread & baking, I've started baking bread probably around 7/8ish years ago, killed of many starters and had my experiments here and there. Still got so many lessons to learn. Only recently learned how much the scoring angle matters in getting the ear. Knew about all that gluten-development stuff quite well, but I'm not really a scorer. Usually I bake boules so they fit in my cast iron pots and I let them rest seam down in the banneton. They'll rip up randomly like that, but still have the same structure as scored loaves. 
My process is similar to yours, but I start in the morning and stretch it out a bit more. 
Take out motherdough out of the fridge, make preferment with motherdough & feed motherdough a spoonfull of preferment to keep it going. Back to the fridge with it.
Then in the afternoon when I get home from work I mix in the rest of the ingedrients, salt, flour water, and so on, do a stretch and fold everytime I remember until I go to sleep (usually 3-4 times).
If I can manage to shape it before I go to bed, I'll do that, else it goes to the fridge unshaped and gets shaped in the morning. 
Always resting in the fridge once its shaped and then baked the day after or even after that, usually in the evening, post work.

@smoothsailor really cool stuff! How did you get into making your own bike frames?

Re baking: do you make a preferment? Since I started with using it, I never had problems with bread not rising cause auf outside temps.

Tried my hand(s) at perfecting baguette recently.

Not 100% original since I use oatmeal in the sourdough starter, should use only wheat flour, but the yeast activity is way better with oatmeal mixed in.

First picture from today (higher heat, steeper angle when scoring => better ear, more oven spring) 

Second picture shows the difference good, was a few weeks earlier. Dough about the same, fermentation about the same. Next time maybe even a bit hotter to get more contrast. Lets see how they taste.

@rodeo bill how do u go about dying wool in general? Might want to play around a bit myself.

1 hour ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

So I have this broken thread on the inside (orange) but on the outside only the yellow thread is visible. 

Do I need to repair the orange thread and if so, how?!

U could stitch over it with yellow thread for safety (use poly for durability). Usually the spot wears through on both stitch lines sooner or later... 

The orange thread is the first sewing line, over which the inseam is folded over, so basically it is double sewn. The yellow thread sews down the folded inseam so it stays flat and in the same position.

2 hours ago, 81FXR said:

Love this. Honestly I’m so entrenched in the wide-legged life by this point I can’t even fathom some of the painted-on fits that I donned in my youth.

The tricky thing is that wide leg seems to mean anything from ‘actually kinda regular’ to ‘Hammertime’. Worth just trying some too as your height/figure will determine what looks good on you.

An additional challenge is that for whatever reason retailers don’t often show wide leg fits in their best light. Either they’re on a 6,6 beefcake with bison thighs and they just look like slim fit, or they’re stacked from ankle to thigh on some tiny dude who looks like they raided a giant’s wardrobe.

As a styling sidenote, shirts/tees need to be tucked for a wide leg to work. Something about an untucked shirt and wide leg trousers looks really really off. Probably down to the fit being inspired by a time when people aspired to dress smartly rather than in stained tracksuits. Also I find cuffing or hemming to a bit above the laces is crucial to keeping that loose, straight silhouette without stacking.

Buzz Rickson’s 1942 chino are a fave fit of mine.

Full Count does some really nice utility pants.

I’m a big fan ONI but couldn’t get a wide fit until earlier this year when I got the 200ZR. The one-wash also doesn’t shrink so the fit will remain after washing.

Controversially, probably my favourite wide-leg denim fit is (gasp) Nudie… they do a 17oz Japanese denim in their ‘Tuff Tony’ fit and it’s probably the best fitting jean I’ve ever had. Sometimes you gotta ditch the denim snobbery to attain the fit. The chino in the same fit is also nice. High waist, wide leg. Pic below. 

 

 

 

Great fits mate love your play on fits

Repairs following @chicote instructions.

My wife got me a sewing machine for my birthday in june, took a while to set it up, but its coming along.

Repairing tcb contest 40s rn

On the same line as the hemjob, but a bit more wild.

^FW did one, I think. Also sugar cane? TCB? 

^New ones are fast faders it seems. 

Tbh I'm clad in gildan heavy cotton since I started working. Fit works out very good, if a bit long, wash well, easy to buy in bulk and pretty cheap. 

Good basic T shirt for under everything and works well on its own. Length is enough for tucking.

3 hours ago, diggers said:

SUGARCANE -4M119 
Size 32 
Waist 16 inch // FR 11 Inch // BR 15.5 inch // Thigh 13 inch // Knee 10 inch // LO 9.5 Inch // Inseam 36

 

Asking price? Looking promising

Gildan, sc40105 sized up for summer, muji

8 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

What's the patch on the wooden board behind?.. you can see more of it at 15.47

Looks like some kind of special release or advertisement, something with clutch maybe? Could muster out "clutchman"...

Congrats Dr. @julian-wolf

Cleaning: soap/dishsoap and a brush, stick a bit of cling wrap under it to protect the leather.

Removing: scalpel or small scissors with a sharp tip

Thanks, I think the high water cuff makes them look a bit slimmer, but they are a tad tight in the waist. Good pre lunch, bit worse post lunch

also actually am slim, these are a size 30, could rock them without a belt. 

with a 31 I would probably need it.