H...crimper

18 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

....cont

Since the onset of Covid, i haven't had a great deal to do at work so ive spent the summer restoring and reintroducing some Victoriana into the outside of our c1879 terrace house, although folks now care for these houses dearly, there was decades pre and post war when they was rather neglected.. if they survived the slum clearance they would succumb to the onslaught of UPVC... anyhow, when we bought this c1879 house some of the original features still remained, alas in a desperate state of neglect but at least it gave me something to work with, this was the old front door, some nasty 1980's varnished mahogony, which has peeled in the sun with c1960 skylight in a rotton poorly repaired frame.

Around a year ago i bought a 1920's sunburst, stainglass front door and spent many an hour restoring it at work, blanking off the old door furniture ect...

.

I bought some 30's era brass levers and matching letterbox

...decided they didn't look quite right so bought buns instead, mainly for the patina, stamped 'GR'

I made a little sketch of the old period door moulding

.

...and replaced it with a new frame in Tulip wood

The door now looks like this, the piece of plywood covering the skylight is only temporary until my replacment piece of stainglass comes back from the makers

Held open in style with my Frida Kahlo door wedge

I started sanding the windows back to the woodwork, i had to because the previous owners had given it a quick coat of black paint just to sell the house without using undercoat so it was already flaking when we moved in, i tried sanding it, but it was hopeless... i bought some Niromors, but European regulations/health and saftey have forced them to remove the active ingredients so it only bubbles the top layer of paint...fucking useless really, eventually i decided to carefully burn it off with a butane gun, the kind that plumbers use for soldering pipes.

..everything you see in white is recent wooden frames housing Pilkington double glazing and everything in brown is original, 140 yr old woodwork.

The heat from the gas-gun left a horrible oily paint residue, so i tried Rustings paint stripper to remove it...once all the paint had gone i started sanding down, this is the first time the windows have been taken back to bare wood since the house was built, i went through the black to white to magnolia which i'm assuming was the 90's, through 1980's red, through yellow to 1970's orange, brown, and mustard.. maroon and eventually bottle green which was the base colour, fascinating peeling back all the layers/years.

..it took 160hrs to make this^ one window look like this

Junky 46's in action

Life was made easier because i had the entire house scaffolded up, we ground out all the crumbly Victorian black ash mortar and re-pointed all the brickwork, albeit the scaff only went up to gutter level so my neighbour belayed me out of the velux and i put a strap around the chimneys and clipped in my harness, i repaired all the wooden guttering while i was at it.

The house now looks like this

The sunburst shines out into the darkness

..i'm having yet another well deserved beer

fin.

18 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

....cont

Since the onset of Covid, i haven't had a great deal to do at work so ive spent the summer restoring and reintroducing some Victoriana into the outside of our c1879 terrace house, although folks now care for these houses dearly, there was decades pre and post war when they was rather neglected.. if they survived the slum clearance they would succumb to the onslaught of UPVC... anyhow, when we bought this c1879 house some of the original features still remained, alas in a desperate state of neglect but at least it gave me something to work with, this was the old front door, some nasty 1980's varnished mahogony, which has peeled in the sun with c1960 skylight in a rotton poorly repaired frame.

Around a year ago i bought a 1920's sunburst, stainglass front door and spent many an hour restoring it at work, blanking off the old door furniture ect...

.

I bought some 30's era brass levers and matching letterbox

...decided they didn't look quite right so bought buns instead, mainly for the patina, stamped 'GR'

I made a little sketch of the old period door moulding

.

...and replaced it with a new frame in Tulip wood

The door now looks like this, the piece of plywood covering the skylight is only temporary until my replacment piece of stainglass comes back from the makers

Held open in style with my Frida Kahlo door wedge

I started sanding the windows back to the woodwork, i had to because the previous owners had given it a quick coat of black paint just to sell the house without using undercoat so it was already flaking when we moved in, i tried sanding it, but it was hopeless... i bought some Niromors, but European regulations/health and saftey have forced them to remove the active ingredients so it only bubbles the top layer of paint...fucking useless really, eventually i decided to carefully burn it off with a butane gun, the kind that plumbers use for soldering pipes.

..everything you see in white is recent wooden frames housing Pilkington double glazing and everything in brown is original, 140 yr old woodwork.

The heat from the gas-gun left a horrible oily paint residue, so i tried Rustings paint stripper to remove it...once all the paint had gone i started sanding down, this is the first time the windows have been taken back to bare wood since the house was built, i went through the black to white to magnolia which i'm assuming was the 90's, through 1980's red, through yellow to 1970's orange, brown, and mustard.. maroon and eventually bottle green which was the base colour, fascinating peeling back all the layers/years.

..it took 160hrs to make this^ one window look like this

Junky 46's in action

Life was made easier because i had the entire house scaffolded up, we ground out all the crumbly Victorian black ash mortar and re-pointed all the brickwork, albeit the scaff only went up to gutter level so my neighbour belayed me out of the velux and i put a strap around the chimneys and clipped in my harness, i repaired all the wooden guttering while i was at it.

The house now looks like this

The sunburst shines out into the darkness

..i'm having yet another well deserved beer

fin.

Always some one to give you a belay in Sheffield.

1 hour ago, Topnotcher said:

Killer with the engineers ! 

This has to be the classic fit.

Am I the only one here with extra room 

6 hours ago, dudewuttheheck said:

You all who sized up were smart. I might be able to pass them onto my lady for her to wear for me. Depending on how much they shrink, they may work for her so that would be a nice turn of events.

I could have gone for a 35 but for some reason that not a typical size and wanted some thing loose.

I wonder how the where worn in the war?

6 minutes ago, Topgearskin said:

So what's the numbers on inseam shrinkage after soaking? I'm loathe tho hot soak mine prior to having a better understanding of the shrink. I was hoping for a 4" shrink. If they're only coming up 2" I'm tempted to get them hemmed prior to soaking to get the roping I enjoy so much on my 20s.

 

They shrunk quiet a bit in length but I never get my jeans hemmed for some reason, I really like the way the a lot of Japanese wear them.

This is what made me realise that 34 was going to be a tight fit, I am normally 33 in other makes and went for 36.

36 is loose on me but that the fit i wanted.

Getting jeans to fit how you like is like chasing the holy grail. 

The sizing if pretty much like LVC was in the 90s 

Mine are meant to be in London Friday lunchtime

2 hours ago, Dry said:

I had to wash my 1937 201s after 3 months continuous wear. They have come out nicely washed inside out at 40C for 1hour in the machine.

These are going to look really good in a few years.

Here is the shirt I bought from Duffer in the 90s looks like Dry Bones still make nice shirts. 

29 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

Which era/Duffer shop was that @H...crimper - Shorts Gardens, D’arblay St? I doubt it was as far back as Portobello 

It was the one in Covent garden , mid 90s always had good stuff.

3 hours ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

Bringing this thread back from the dead...

Somehow Dry Bones is a brand that never really made a breakthrough in the Western denim world. Self Edge carried them, Clutch Cafe still has them (where they are on sale right now) but you rarely seen them featured here although they do look quite nice.

https://clutch-cafe.com/collections/dry-bones/products/dry-bones-562w-engineering-denim-jean

They used to sell Dry Bones from Duffer of St George , I got a really nice shirt from them.

On 7/6/2020 at 10:27 PM, RunMountainDrew said:

Cool thread, I'll bite.  I've moved a lot, never really living anywhere longer than 5 years, although I claim the American Midwest as home.  The past ~15 months I've been in Cambridge, Massachusetts and I've gotta say...it's gorgeous here.

If you're unfamiliar, Cambridge is in the greater Boston metro area, and is just across the Charles river from Boston.  I took this during a January run along the Charles, looking over at Boston.

 

The whole state (and really the whole Northeast) is much more arboreal and lush that I could have imagined.  Looking at the Boston skyline from a local preserve, the Middlesex Fells.

 

Cambridge is home to two of the most prestigious universities in the world, Harvard and MIT.  I've been living smack dab between the two, which is a neat and occasionally surreal experience (going to lunch and overhearing a group of data scientists talking about removing bias in artificial intelligence, seeing MIT kids pointing a laptop with arduino and antennae at passing cars for unknown reasons, etc).  You can easily take the bike path along the Charles to run or bike between the two schools.  It's a very popular path with some pretty bridges along it, such as this one near Harvard.

 

To me as a Midwesterner, the neighborhoods in this part of Cambridge are fascinating.  I've never seen so many home with so much history, elegance, and character.  This is my favorite house in Cambridge, from a few blocks over.

Another favorite, until they removed all the vines last week.

A park down the street.  The hydrangeas have been insane lately.

Another neat house nearby, check out that window.

Sadly, the gorgeous architecture and prestigious universities come with some truly shocking price tags (median home price in Cambridge is $1.45 million, making it the most expensive city in greater Boston).  With my wife and I planning on starting our family soon, we wanted to be closer to relatives and somewhere we could actually afford to own: we're happy to be closing on our new house in Illinois next week.  It's going to be a sizeable increase from our current 399 sq ft apartment, which has proven quite....cramped...in recent months.  Follow up pictures of the new neighborhood would be downright depressing in comparison, however.

That view of Boston skyline is almost the same angle but further back from the site in Cambridge I was working last year. Fantastic city.

The last picture show from 1971 has some really nice worn Levi’s and Lee denim. 

11 hours ago, unders said:

Those are fantastic crimper. Some of the nicest train tracks I’ve seen.

I think the 333s were labelled up as a 1911 repro. I regret not getting these and the 201s. Like a complete tart, I was all about the downsized 47s when these were in the collections. 

Thanks , them old Levis where the darkest blue when new and really stiff but with a lot of wear you got some nice results. I use to wear them to work which really helped.

I don't think i have seen the 333s. 

I used to be a furniture maker and a lot of the wear is from machining wood, I have quite a few pairs this worn from back then, I can’t get anywhere near it now.

3 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

September 1996 production. Good guess Doc!

Thats when I brought them < you had to pay for them one day and pick them up the next for some strange reason. They are a nice fit with a high rise.