Word of Mouth - The Crust & Fades Contest

[ATWM]

Rust for me showed up on the first soak and has only gotten marginally more pronounced since then through multiple washes. The water where I am is hard, but not super hard. 

[Double 0 Soul]

Guys.. it's less to do with the water and more to do with the salt content in your sweat, the spices in the foods you eat and where your fingers and body have left sweat / salt deposits on the ferrous.

A chap i used to work with.. all of his carbon steel carving tools were black.. mine are all silver.. one day, i was struggling to develop a shape i couldn't visualise.. he said pass me your gouge.. i handed it to him and he took it by the blade, he started to carve out the shape and handed it back.. the next day, his fingerprints were rusted into the steel.. i was pissed but 30yrs after his death, i still have his fingerprints rusted into my carving tool which i find quite poignant.

[ATWM]

55 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Guys.. it's less to do with the water and more to do with the salt content in your sweat, the spices in the foods you eat and where your fingers and body have left sweat / salt deposits on the ferrous.

A chap i used to work with.. all of his carbon steel carving tools were black.. mine are all silver.. one day, i was struggling to develop a shape i couldn't visualise.. he said pass me your gouge.. i handed it to him and he took it by the blade, he started to carve out the shape and handed it back.. the next day, his fingerprints were rusted into the steel.. i was pissed but 30yrs after his death, i still have his fingerprints rusted into my carving tool which i find quite poignant.

I suppose it was Simo's blood sweat and tears that caused the rust that I got on that first soak!

[Double 0 Soul]

Yep

I'd guess on those instances where the rust shows in spots it's due to the warm water dissolving the sweaty fingers salt deposits on the button.. concentrating them within the last drop of water to evapourate.. leaving a spot which is more prone to rust.

[reallypeacedoff]

I guess Simo didn't man-handle my jeans enough 😤

[julian-wolf]

Sunday happenings + observances:

Scritch time

 

Next round of starts, with & without Squirrel Guard

 

Little herb garden: no need for a squirrel guard here: the gnome’s got it covered

 

Morning coffee appreciating the sunflowers

[beautiful_FrEaK]

No big action, just fit pics

[ashgiovanni]

Everyday drivers. Right pocket shredded due to everyday pocket knife usage. Will have to repair. Rear pocket rivets trying to eat their way through. Really enjoying the weight of this denim; has truly made wearing jeans in the summer bearable. 
 

I just gave them their second wash this weekend, and here they are after air drying:

 

I gotta figure out best way to tackle the pocket. Looks like everyone’s patch design has disappeared, so sad about it! Would be a cool graphic for Simone to put on a t-shirt though! 👀 

 

lovely seeing all of the pics and adventures of you guys. Will try to update more

[CSL]

Check in 7.22.25. Now the heat's on I'm not wearing them as much as I'd like, but I think some evolution is evident.

[MJF9]

The (now) annual Dad and lad weekend away in the Peak District, infamous OO Soul country

Quick pit stop en-route at Porter Coffee on Sharrow Vale road - £17 for 2 butties and £1 for parking - how much! Hardly a Sheffield accent to be heard, southern tones aplenty - gentrification of S-codes?

Took the WoMs for a walk around Bamford Edge... totally staged pic looking out over the Hope Valley

It's a strictly carnivorous weekend - we packed 4.4kg (yes I weighed it) of ribeye, T-bone, lamb... will we get through it all is the question 

And a sauna to finish the day off...

Edited July 26, 2025 by MJF9

[Dr_Heech]

Awesome.

[nopal]

Looks great!

That’s a lot of meat sir.

[MJF9]

Cheers gents... yeah lovely here and probably too much!!

[Double 0 Soul]

3 hours ago, MJF9 said:

The (now) annual Dad and lad weekend away in the Peak District, infamous OO Soul country

Quick pit stop en-route at Porter Coffee on Sharrow Vale road - £17 for 2 butties and £1 for parking - how much! Hardly a Sheffield accent to be heard, southern tones aplenty - gentrification of S-codes?

 

 

 

Looks wonderful MJ!

 

It's not gentrification.. it's always been a fancy-pants neighbourhood.. back in the late Victorian period, wealthy steel barons (the finance-bros of their era)  fled the pollution of the east-end seeking out the fresh air of the Peak District.. building their houses in the S10 / S11 districts.. 

Old photos show kids walking to school nr Sharrow Vale in top hat and tails.. even 20yrs ago, S10 was still considered one of the most affluent postcodes outside Kensington and Chelsea.

 

Regarding the accent.. My immediate neighbours are from Hackney, Lowestoft, Belper, Devon, Sydney, Taiwan and Holland.. so not many earthy Sheffield accents there .. the lead singer of the Arctic Monkeys lived just a stones throw from where you're eating your sandwiches.. so entirely faux-Sheffield accent 

 

Sadly i'm not one of the winners from all this postcode-prosperity.. when i bought my first house.. i desperately wanted to get out of Sheff.. it was just depressing, most of my old friends had either died, been incarcerated or sectioned due to the heroin boom of the post rave years.. We could have bought the tiny house we live in now for less money than the massive barn conversion we bought out in the sticks..

 

When our boy came along.. he would walk to his junior school through the farm across the street, stroking lambs enroute, it was idyllic but having been to a god-awful secondary school myself, i was determined to send my kid to a great secondary.. which meant moving back into Sheff and into S10 / S11.. but after the austerity of the Cameron / Osborne years a lot of house prices stagnated, ours included.. it took us 4yrs to sell it, we had 8 viewing during that time,   ..i had to drop the price by £70k to secure a sale.. Austerity had no effect on the middle-class folks of S11 which meant the house we bought had 130 viewings in the first week and i had to pay £17k over the asking price.. so i was already £87k down before we moved in .. with Sarah's health issues, she wouldn't have been able to get a mortgage so i had to use my savings to pay off the old mortgage and start a new one from scratch under my name.. which is why i'm currently at work on a Saturday afternoon.. i'm overpaying like a mofo tho!.. i'm equally determined to pay it off while i'm in my 50s ..

[julian-wolf]

This weekend: baking pies, moving starts to pots (pictured: Mexican sour gherkins), watching older plants grow older, keeping an eye on the dogs and on the cricket that’s been hanging around our kitchen sink for the past few weeks

 

[julian-wolf]

Meanwhile, patched over the opening to the left front pocket earlier this week with fabric from the cut off hem of one of my Tender Co. shirts, dyed w/ Prussian blue. I’ve stitched over a few seams, previously, but this is the first real repair—almost always is, for me. I really love how the pocket bag denim is fading; it’s a beautiful rich blue. Plus: photos before the upcoming wash, I think no. 5 or 6?

 

[Ciabatta]

Yeaaa…. Julian is gonna win this one haha

[julian-wolf]

@Ciabatta Shhh don’t jinx it: we’re only a third of the way done, and my attention span’s already slipping big time

As of now, I think my money’s on Aho—based on past competitions, though, I’m sure there’s also at least a couple folks laying low not posting many updates that’ll show up at the finish line with some top notch wear & tear

[nopal]

On 6/10/2025 at 9:32 PM, nopal said:

Three-wash measurements:

Waist / 78.0 cm / 30.71 inches  
Front rise / 29.0 cm / 11.42 inches  
Back rise / 39.0 cm / 15.35 inches  
Thigh / 31.5 cm / 12.40 inches  
Knee / 25.0 cm / 9.84 inches  
Hem / 22.0 cm / 8.66 inches  
Inseam / 73.0 cm / 28.74 inches

Four-wash @ 30 degrees, spin 800 for 45min.

I’ve mostly been wearing shorts since last - still, they were smelling musty so in they went but gently this time.

Obviously not much change since last yet here’s some new photos:

[aho]

On 7/28/2025 at 1:34 AM, julian-wolf said:

@Ciabatta Shhh don’t jinx it: we’re only a third of the way done, and my attention span’s already slipping big time

As of now, I think my money’s on Aho—based on past competitions, though, I’m sure there’s also at least a couple folks laying low not posting many updates that’ll show up at the finish line with some top notch wear & tear

@julian-wolf there's just no way but I appreciate the words of confidence! 😅🙏

I'm for sure due an update (hopefully some good light this weekend); I was in Japan for a month and hoped all the walking would yield impressive updates, but alas, I found a perfectly fitting and faded pair of black 501's second hand a couple days into my trip, which I haven't been able to take off since! Glad to know we still have lots of time left

[aho]

Probably a couple months behind most, but happy with the progress so far 

[Jared_Lee]

The patch may be my favorite bit of evo on these jeans.

[julian-wolf]

I’m surprised yours had any ink left on it at all. I love the feeling of the patch on mine—the leather’s stayed super buttery soft and shiny without any sort of care—but there hasn’t been any discernible printing on it since like wash #2

[ATWM]

^ same, how is that still visible? Ha. 

[Jared_Lee]

I give it a coat of Obenauf's before each wash. Not sure if the beeswax has anything to with preserving the pigment.

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Enjoying first day off work

 

Bonus shot

[MJF9]

A 7 hour round trip yesterday to Loughborough University athletics stadium for my lad to run for just over 2 minutes…  a great experience and result so it was well worth it

[Jared_Lee]

I've been trying to upload another photo of the indigo evo on these jeans, but I keep getting an "Error Code: -200." Not sure if anyone else on the forum is having this problem. I've tried from both my phone and my laptop and same error each time 

[UkeNo]

Photo Test

[Jared_Lee]

Odd, I see your photo @UkeNo, but I'm still getting the same error both on my laptop and on my phone.