Full Count 2009 Contest Redux

[Mr HaGa]

^The fit on those is great, Klue.

[tvshooter]

tv - are them 1108s? looking great!

Yep. Klue- looks good man. where u been? i just noticed that number next to my age got a little higher today. . . crap.

[chambo2008]

happy birthday^^

[Mr HaGa]

Happy birthday from me too, tvshooter!

[salaami]

even if i cant make it to tidewater, i'll send u some soap regardless as soon as i make it. i'm just looking for feedback...i didn't take offense, what i meant was that no matter what kind of work it is, it's still gonna produce some kind of fading if you do it every day. but then again in this economy i guess ''work is work''. if it feeds the baby, im on it!

[tvshooter]

^ aww man...hope u can make it. well here's to you and my FC friends...a birthday treat to share with ya'll.

[supreme88]

dopest dope i ever smoked

[salaami]

ty, did your mother ever tellyou you had along lost black twin? if so, it was me!

[frostanubis]

lol we need more pictures =D

[salaami]

damn frost, i thought thats what u was doing! shit! well i posted some pics in the wash thread. the boss cant find a diamond blade to cut this concrete, so im sneaking onto sufu....

[emmitbrown]

I think I need to wash these soon to bring out that blue.

[salaami]

nice 'bow combs

[dandandan]

3 months - salaryman wear

Just washed it last week and took some prewash pics and thought i might as well post some pics even though they're not very impressive

[M.O.A]

that roping is delicious

[srok]

Here's a couple of pictures taken quickly, now that the sun's out and about.

Three months, one hot soak at two months after the initial hot wash. There's not too much happening except the whiskers, which are shaping up nicely.

The stiching around the crotch is coming apart, so I'm going to pick up a needle and thread and get cracking next week. I'll probably reinforce the crotch with some denim while I'm at it.

[tvshooter]

can't rep ya srok, but those whiskers are gonna be sick.

[frostanubis]

i'll try to take pics when there's sunshine out in toronto lol

[salaami]

a dude told me to stop the ''aliasing'' in my pics. what the fuck is 'aliasing'? i can barely operate a disposable camera, so all this photog. jargan is lost on me. i know my pics in the wash thread are shitty!

[kawawaka]

dope klue...what is that other pair of jeans on the deck there?

[salaami]

damn kawakawa, i was looking for action pics...

[klue]

dope klue...what is that other pair of jeans on the deck there?

check out homemade jeans thread

[tvshooter]

x-post from another thread, but i figured i'd let ya'll know what you're up against! lol. pic of my Grandpa in Cuba circa 1980 when my mom went back to visit her family. shit runs in my blood!!! haha.

[Mr HaGa]

That's pretty cool, tvshooter. My dad sees me with my jeans and tells me about how he used to get the STF back in the 60s and wear them in the tub...

[salaami]

yeah, years ago i had a pair of selvage nudies on, and my aunt saw my cuff and told me that that's how her levis used to look when cuffed. the selvage instantly was a bell-ringer for her. grandpa looks cool as fuck.now i see why you puff cohibas... i bought the 1108 originally because 1966 was when my dad was like 21 or so, and the warehouse because it's a 1930's cut, and that was when my gramps was in his heyday drinking moonshine, smoking hand-rolled cigs, and chasing skirts!

wash #21 was yesterday. lye soap is great for getting dirt out. had to repair some of the yoke W/gordon's thread. im getting up with lendo this weekend for more pics, cause dudes was ragging on my last ones. i know my pics suck! ha!

[lestat]

i was originally going to bring my pair with me on vacation, but 4got to pack it in my luggage.... just got back now, time to start.... alot of catching up to do

[Mr HaGa]

They were hanging up outside to air out, took some quick pics... I need to do a major crotch repair. More stitches broke. Might be too much for me to do it myself...

[salaami]

from what i can (or rather can't) see, you could do it yourself.

today i had to repair the coin-pocket, and put 2 patches(samurai denim, i don't know the specifics, it's the silver/red line selvage provided by gordon, i wanted to use denim that's as tough as possible. i flipped the patches, so that when the hole eventually wears through, the weft side will show. when it fades to white, it'll be less noticable than a big blue dot on my ass. in the arse, cause the denim was(is) really thin. i used some indigo warp threads grafted from a leg of kaihara denim. the denim on the arse is damn-near white, so i used the indigo threads so when they fade the repair will be basically unseen. i call it my ''invisistitch'' method. i usually hold the jean up the sun and look @ the weft side to see if much light shines through. if a lot comes through, i know it's patch time. with denim once you see fraying, or thinning get to work, cause it's gonna wear down arithmetically quicker and quicker. worn denim is much weaker than raw denim. whenever i said ''fuck it, it'll last another week'', BAM!!! in the next day or two i have an issue.

[Mr HaGa]

The denim on mine is still holding up fine. It's just the stitches breaking and coming undone. I was able to repair them myself, but it's a temporary fix at best...

[salaami]

you can loop the thread around the seam over and over. thats what i did with mine. i wish i could show you a pic...fades coming along well, btw.

[Knugget]

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