Heavyweight Denim Championships 2013 - 2015 - Official Thread

[Megatron1505]

Echoing B, love the effort being put into this by all you guys, sincere thank you.

[masamune]

ByBeatle 2.5 months 

 

 

 

 

 

[dingo]

Hey guys, just wanted to let you all know that I´m still around… Again, it´s been quite a while since I posted some pictures of my 634 S, and I felt I had to show how they´ve turned out so far. No wash yet - I´m trying to go at least 8 months before shoving them in the washer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As always, I´ll try to submit more regularly in the future… ;-)

[Max Power]

Looks promising (and good to see a proof of life). Do you have details regarding the belt and maybe another picture? Thanks

[dingo]

Looks promising (and good to see a proof of life).

 

 

 

Thanks! I´m in love with the denim, it feels really good, and it is still kind of sturdy but yet smooth. And yeah, I´ve got a lot of stuff on my plate at the moment, but then, I always do… 

 

 

Do you have details regarding the belt and maybe another picture? Thanks

 

Sure thing! This is the Joe Hill, a project-belt that was brought in existence by mikecch. It is now approximately 2,5 years old. I wear it every day and have oiled it maybe 3 or 4 times by now. It is completely handcrafted, including the damast-buckle.

 

As far as I know there are not more than 25 in existence, mine is number 12, as you can see on the pictures. More details about the production process can be read here: 

 

http://indigoshrimp.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/the-joe-hill-belt-project-part-1-with-scott-willis-a-k-a-unlucky/

http://indigoshrimp.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/the-joe-hill-belt-project-part-2/

 

and also here on SuFu, of course: http://supertalk.superfuture.com/index.php/topic/21890-belts/page-60

 

 

And now for the pictures:

 

 

 

 

(thickness compared to a 1€-Coin)

Edited September 6, 2013 by dingo

[BrownMetallic]

^fab belt!  good to know my Joe Hill could turn out [this] way down the line.

[mree]

Hi from Edinburgh guys!

[Megatron1505]

^ Love Edinburgh.

To filter, or not to filter that is the question.

[beatle]

mas - coming along nicely

[masamune]

^ thanks beatle

[HoustonChris]

Been a while since I last posted pictures.  Since I had to wash them yesterday, (Potty training can be a bumpy road sometimes.  Let's just leave it at that.) now seemed like a good time to rectify the issue.

 

So, here are my SDA Xs-33 with right around five months of wear.  Unsurprisingly for those who know me, they look very much like they did when new...

 

 

To answer one of the frequent questions about this denim- yes, the neps eventually wear away.  When they do, the denim looks reasonably smooth, but starts to show signs of falling fades.  I anticipate beautiful things with this pair; maybe even before the contest ends.

[bradl]

Awesome, really excited to see how those turn out in the next year as mine will take a long time to show much signs of wearing with my current rotation.

Edited September 9, 2013 by bradl

[Noodle36]

For some reason I am unable to upload photos from iPhone to photobucket.  Progress photos to follow when the problem is figured out.  Ruminating about hot soaking them.  Would be the second soak.  Opinions?

[Bobbo]

Well I'm already past two soaks and the first wash and I reckon a couple of others have done it aswell.

 

I'd say go for it, it's only denim after all.

[louisbosco]

yeah. mine's on the second wash already.

[Noodle36]

I'm not worried about wrecking them. Was just going to see how long I could go after the first soak before I desperately needed to wash or soak them. Sort of influenced in part by Ruedi and how he doesn't let his jeans touch water. Thought it would be fun to try is all.

[Slowitchu]

I'm aiming at first soak/wash at the one year mark. But we'll see what happens until then.

[okisan]

no harm in soaking at all. my ih's have already had a few soaks and one wash (also due to baby shit) so go for it.

[Max Power]

Did three soaks, one handwash and one machine wash so far.

[louisbosco]

I'm aiming at first soak/wash at the one year mark. But we'll see what happens until then.

 

 

till you spill something like sauce or curry on your jeans. then you know "damn, now i've gotta wash it." that's what happened to me.

[Bobbo]

Sort of influenced in part by Ruedi and how he doesn't let his jeans touch water. Thought it would be fun to try is all.

Yeah, Ruedi is one crazy bastard. I'm stoked to see what he's gonna do with the pair of Indigofera that I sold him.

Either way I'm looking forward to seeing how your 32oz:ers look by now. How much have the softened up?

 

[Slowitchu]

till you spill something like sauce or curry on your jeans. then you know "damn, now i've gotta wash it." that's what happened to me.

Exactly, need to be careful!

[Noodle36]

Yeah, Ruedi is one crazy bastard. I'm stoked to see what he's gonna do with the pair of Indigofera that I sold him.

Either way I'm looking forward to seeing how your 32oz:ers look by now. How much have the softened up?

 

I'm in the 25oz MBB's.  I think they look great.  The increased contrast of the extremely dark denim with the faded areas is really interesting.  The Denim has a ton of character.  I will have to just save the photos from my iPhone to my hard drive and upload them that way. 

[HUNCHBAK]

Here's my Heavyweight Driving Challenge... 

 

A few weeks back, Cult of Individuality had a photo shoot for the Spring '14 campaign, out in Long Island.. Being from Queens, it was a little longer drive than I'm used to..

 

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[HUNCHBAK]

Here's some Blurry Cam Selfies of my Cults... Wasn't a good day to wear them because it was really hot, but they did come in handy, being I was on the ground most of the time for low level shooting.

 

 

 

I'll post some Updated detail shots of my Cults soon.

 

[Bobbo]

I'm in the 25oz MBB's.  I think they look great.  The increased contrast of the extremely dark denim with the faded areas is really interesting.  The Denim has a ton of character.  I will have to just save the photos from my iPhone to my hard drive and upload them that way. 

Ah shit, my bad. Tricked by your sharing of capital letter with Netleyhunter.

The MBB's really seem to come along nicely for alot of you guys. 

What you can do is to save your photos in Dropbox's app. Since it's a cloudservice you can get ahold of it on any computer anytime you want and don't have to think about uploading photos. It's really smooth. Of course any cloudservice would suffice.

[Slowitchu]

Played drums for the first time in months and the light is always so good in the studio that I just had to take a crotch photo for you.

 

[Noodle36]

So I just ended up putting the pics on my computer

 

Some Evo on the MBB's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You may ask "why are the pictures upside down?"... I have no idea.  I edited these four times to get the orientation right and they still came out this way.  Have decided to stop using the iPhone for photos.

[Chubacca]

Been a while since I last posted pictures.  Since I had to wash them yesterday, (Potty training can be a bumpy road sometimes.  Let's just leave it at that.) now seemed like a good time to rectify the issue.

 

So, here are my SDA Xs-33 with right around five months of wear.  Unsurprisingly for those who know me, they look very much like they did when new...

 

 

To answer one of the frequent questions about this denim- yes, the neps eventually wear away.  When they do, the denim looks reasonably smooth, but starts to show signs of falling fades.  I anticipate beautiful things with this pair; maybe even before the contest ends.

 

 

Thanks for the update! These were the most interesting pair of jeans I wanted to see evo from this contest.  From what I'm seeing, it looks like this pair and other SDA jeans are stubborn on fading....

[summ3rhays]

xpost from the pics only thread

 

 

 

HC-IH-06

5 mo update

IHxHCxBx25oz