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Custom
jacket liner for customer. Slightly OTT but rather nice.
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Another
dragon jacket lining.
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No
dragon, just a nice 3" quilted red satin lining. |
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Lush
lining in a motorcycle jacket. |
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Yup, that is
a wedding dress in pearlized white leather.
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Outside
of leg caught on the exhaust of an air cooled Beemer at a petrol station.
Clean, simple repair. |
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Slightly
more complicated. Burn is on the inside of the leg and could easily happen
again. The hole is first patched with Cordura™ and then a Nomex™
panel is overlaid to give protection. |
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Dutch
brandsweer (fire service) jacket brought with leather buttons from an Amsterdam
flea market. Re lined, re finished and original buttons sourced and fitted.
The model is some random chap off the street. |
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Waistcoat
before and after collar rebuild and after finishing to customer requirements. |
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Artwork
& logo on customer's suit..
By permission of Jim "Thud"
Flood
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Single letter on suit back.
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More customer artwork...
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Artwork
on John's jacket.
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Badges
can usually be sewn on whilst you wait. Especially if you've come a loooong
way... |
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Artwork,
black on silver. This look better "in real life". I am not a photographer,
nor do I play one on TV. |
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All
artwork (appliqué and embroidered badges) made to customer request. |
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Some
guys have all the luck. GIVEN a Crowtree suit. OK, some crash damage, and
the lettering was someone else's, but a real good fit all but the lower
leg. Lettering replaced, crash damage repaired, some cosmetic tarting up,
lower leg taken in a tad, and the man is ready to go racing. |
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"Byson"
quilted lining for a jacket
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A
broken boot zip mended as if by... hard work :-) |
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Why
is it invariably right foot boots that destroy their zips ? |
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Horse riding boot
after zip replacement.
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Smart
yellow boots made for a very small foot and a tiny calf (R). Modified
for a more normal leg (L). |
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Police
boot from Silvermans. VERY high leg. In fact 3 inches too high for our customer. |
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This jacket is 30 years old and still had it's
original lining in. It is going to get new zips (5 of) new lining, pockets,
re-stitch and a large dollop of TLC. So far it has been taken apart, surface
cleaned and vacuumed out on the inside.
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Hmmm...
The stitching was rather more perished than we thought... |
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Back
together, cleaned and ready for some TLC |
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Mark lining material out for quilting....
And assemble. Note nice new red pocket. Our
relining job price ASSUMES that you will want an inside pocket for passports,
vast wallet, documents, summonses and kittens.
Don't ask :-)
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And
all finished & ready for the customer. |
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And
reunited with the owner... |
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Alpinestars
Jacket with damaged Keprotec panel in arm, before and after. |
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A
pair of custom pannier liners to fit Metal Mule luggage made to customer
specification. |
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Jacket in for a winter refurb etc.
Before and after.
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An
unloved pair of leather jeans becomes a new skirt.. |
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Black fashion jacket. Pockets re-stitched &
re-enforced, tear in right arm patched, re-coloured & conditioned.
I love my work. Sometimes its like rescuing
kittens.
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Gentleman's
pigskin split jacket with a badly worn collar. The colour march is not perfect
but "it is what we have". Which is much less expensive than buying
a whole skin to get a slightly better match. And possibly not such a close
match on finish. |
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Jacket before (R) and after (L). The leather
was very dry and fragile requiring quite drastic action to stabilize and
resurface it.
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Original
Second War vintage American A2 flight jacket. Re-zipped with a NOS Talon
zipper as below. In nice wearable condition. |
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Original US B-3 flight jacket. Needs some repair
work but especially a "new" zip. Existing zip is a mishmash.
RHS and slider are "Talon", puller is "Conmark" and
lhs of zip is ... who knows. "New" 1942-1945 manufactured "Talon"
zip was sourced from Japan by us.
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At left, a Bentley leather flying helmet, based
we believe on a US first war issue. At right we have adapted a canoeing
helmet for a customer with a vintage bike. For show use only of course.
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Computer case (prototype)for carrying on a bike
tour, built for customer. The carcass is constructed from body armour
material to protect his laptop in case of accident.
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Being brought off at 100 mph can seriously damage
your leathers. The rider walked away with a penny sized friction burn
on his knee. Before and after repair.
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Teknic
Vogue jacket. The arms on the jacket were nearly 3 inches longer than the
arms on the customer. Nice jacket this, well cut. A compromise between function
and fashion. |
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Stool
re-covered in brown leather. |
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Gloves
with hard armour can be awkward to repair but each case is different. And
if they are your lucky gloves... |
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Pair
of Canadian made summer biking gloves. Slightly worn. The palms and both
index fingers were patched and the right thumb tip. After dressing the colour
match was slightly better then shown here, but the main aim was to make
the gloves wearable again. |
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WW2
USAF Navigator's dead reckoning bag type A2. Very fragile and in a distressed
state. In fact too fragile to put under a machine, so we had to hand stitch
it. We kept restoration to an absolute minimum to preserve the patina. One
man's patina being another woman's grott :-) Before, left & centre,
after at right. |
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We
aren't saddlers or harness makers but we do odd bits for a neighbour. Fetlock
boots relined with sheepskin. I did wonder where the skin from my footstool
had vanished to... |
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Fairly
old and sad seaman's belt tool kit that we have copied for a customer. It
was pretty sad but in (almost) 1 piece when we got it. It had to come apart
so that we could see how it had been made. |
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Plain
black & white FT suit customized to customer specification. |
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Dainese jacket. Customer brought a white suit
by accident. :-)
Wanted black suit.
Recolouring from white to black
is surprisingly successful although the actual finish is a little unpredictable
as the effect of over-pigmenting can be a bit on the glossy side. It is
also quite time consuming. There are no pictures of the trousers because
frankly I forgot to take a "before" picture.
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And
boots. There were boots involved. White boots. That I also forgot to photograph
before... |
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Sidecar
artist's "spare" suit. These get some hammer... |
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And some racing sidecar passengers can't find
suitable kit at all. So when a good friend of ours asked us to make her
one to her specifications we did. Passenger suits are a very different
creature from standard solo rider kit requiring much greater flexibility
and freedom of movement. Gwen went for a design emphasizing flexibility
and protection. And ease of maintenance :-)
And a picture of the suit in action (courtesy
of Ian Nichols)
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Another
thing we don't make is pub awnings. Except in exceptional circumstances.
Like its our local :-) Yes, we know it looks a bit narrow BUT it is exactly
the same width as the old one. |
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Close
encounter of the barbed wire kind. The customer didn't want a plain patch
and suggested a false pocket... |
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Cirrus
"Ground Crew" flying jacket. Neat little tear in right arm. When
tears are this small it is pretty inexpensive to repair nicely. Jacket also
needed re-dressing. Act quickly. Save cash. |
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Flying
jacket, field patched & dressed with No2 compound. (Dodo tears &
panda fat) |
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Don't see many of these. Nice jacket, if a bit
fragile to wear. Date label made 1940 by Loutre AG, Sofia.
So 'oter than the average. :-)
Needs a new front zip slider if anyone
has a "Rapid" slider in their odds & sods box.
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RAF flying jacket, about 1943. Hanger damage
on shoulders fixed , right arm patched, various seam damage repaired,
new half belt made all in wartime hide, sleeve zip removed & replaced
"straight". Whole jacket cleaned and reconditioned. The pictures
are IMHO a bit flattening due to flash but it is a very nice looking job.
Jacket sent back to Canada.
There were "before" pictures but they got deleted when
messing with the "movie" setting on the new camera.
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Pair
of Irvin trousers part-way through restoration. |
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Irvin
jacket. I have cleaned the left hand side. This is the start of the cleaning
/ stabilization process. |
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RAF Irvin style flying jacket (Probably original.
Just a bit odd.). Also rather fragile after 70 years.
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