MISTER FREEDOM

[heprof]

Sensational video--love the brief shot of the person (guessing its Eltopo's wife) popping in probably asking either "What the hell are you doing?" or "What's taking you so long?"

Truly a labor of love.

[setterman]

I made a video the other day, getting ready for the cold wet winter we will probably have here in Ohio. Click here to watch or here.

Nice video! Looked up the specifics of this jacket online, it doesn't have the celluliod plastic lining like the blue Rickson deck jackets it's modeled after?

[ajchen]

Cory - the finished video looks awesome. I like how at the end the heat gun starts to show those red streaks as you move it... and I kept looking for where you burned your cuff haha.

There is something really calming and therapeutic about watching a jacket get waxed. Either that or I'm weird.

[eltopo]

Nice video! Looked up the specifics of this jacket online, it doesn't have the celluliod plastic lining like the blue Rickson deck jackets it's modeled after?

The jacket does have a plastic like layer in the jacket like the Buzz Rickson one. That is one of the sweet things about the jacket because the first month or so you can hear that layer crunch around but it slowly breaks in and goes away.

Thanks Andrew! Yeah I burnt one of the other cuffs real quick, you can probably see me get pissed at it for a sec. The red is great at the end as well as the motion blur that starts, I might have played with this more if I had seen it before I put everything together. But now I know. I think Wong Kar Wai did a great time lapse sequence at night in Chung King Express with stop motion, that looks amazing.

[setterman]

The jacket does have a plastic like layer in the jacket like the Buzz Rickson one. That is one of the sweet things about the jacket because the first month or so you can hear that layer crunch around but it slowly breaks in and goes away.

Yeah, I have one of the blue Buzz jackets, and it felt like I was wearing a plastic garbage bag at first, with all the noise the lining was making. Went away in a couple days though.

Glad to hear your jacket has the same lining. When I looked at MF's website it said it had a sandwiched "organdy layer". When I did a search on organdy, what I found was "the sheerest cotton cloth made" Didn't sound good for water or wind proofing! Whether you wax the jungle cloth or not (I didn't on my jacket) water won't get through the celluliod.

My only gripe about the Buzz jackets, I wish the wool lining was heavier. When we hit the nasty weather of December through early March, I really have to have a sweater on underneath it, and that still isn't enough for extented periods of time outside when it's in the teens and 20s.

[edmond]

take 5 has some troy deck jackets and black barbour type jackets!

[fardin]

el topo as always, love your posts, thanks, sorry cant rep as always too

[BC3]

Lovin the road champs more and more

[DocBlue]

me too

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[ThisSunday]

eltopo's video got me off my ass.

Today my Rider's and I started waxing my Barbour

This is one of the reasons I was looking for eltopo's pics a little while back. Needed some inspiration and motivation

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[nattomoto]

Anyone have a Chambray Utility shirt in the original light blue color that they want to sell? I need a raw large or a rinsed medium.

[eltopo]

Not to overkill but one more of the deck jacket.Glad I got you inspired Sunday.

[LandoCal126]

Damn topo I want those pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rnrswitch]

Anyone have a Chambray Utility shirt in the original light blue color that they want to sell? I need a raw large or a rinsed medium.

I was in mf over the weekend and it looked like they had some new.

[nattomoto]

I was in mf over the weekend and it looked like they had some new.

Thanks. I was hoping to save some dough if possible.

[SLAB]

new chinos out also

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/hinoya/sc40880/

[lostinthesupermarket]

They seem pretty restrained....

[Tiro]

Lovin the road champs more and more

still the best shaped toebox out there when it comes to engineers imho!

new chinos out also

screw the chino's, look at that vest :eek:

[wgmds]

vest is only 26k Y on japanese sites. can people explain when appropriate vest weather is? when body is frigid but arms are not? (stupid question, but never saw a mess of use for them)

[nattomoto]

vest is only 26k Y on japanese sites. can people explain when appropriate vest weather is? when body is frigid but arms are not? (stupid question, but never saw a mess of use for them)

A vest for bay area winter is often perfect.

[lostinthesupermarket]

Not that crazy about the vest. It looks more like WWM than Mister Freedom to me.

I think people are sleeping on the midnite twill CPO. The fade on that shirt is going to be great IMO.

[attackwithstones]

The Midnight CPO looks amazing to me. The Off Duty CPO doesn't do it for me, it's kinda weird to me. Maybe I just cant pull off light colors.

The Midnight CPO looks so rad though, I'm trying to get one in Oct. from SENY.

The chinos are too light in color and alittle bland for me.

The vest is awesome, but I have the Naval Utility Vest and love it to death.

I want to see Deck jacket in person to see if I can shell out that much money.

[therelativity]

after a 50degree soak

[eltopo]

relativity they look great!!!!!!!!!!! perfect fit!

[-five-]

Bit late..but always a pleasure when ure posting pics Cory Waxed Deck looks good..bit of shine to them.

[ThinFinn]

perfect fit there trl and an awesome vid as well eltopo...!

[Paul T]

therel & eltopo, immaculate stuff, as ever.

Feeling mildly jealous of both of you, but the cool thing about MF is that it encourages you to pull out the more left-field items out of your cupboard. Can't wait for winter so I can pull out my old leather coat with MF military-style clips...

[mtchfrnk]

Has anyone here ever waxed denim like Eltopo did his jacket?

I imagine it wouldn't work as well because most denim has a relatively open weave (certainly compared to jungle cloth it does). Since the weave is more open, there's actually less surface area inside the cloth for the paraffin to soak into.

That's my theory anyway. Has anyone tried it?

[Charlie Delta]

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[baldy]

just got my cali's yest. went tts, top block and thighs fit good raw, maybe i shoulda sized +1? oh well, hopefully it'll stretch out after i wash.