Recent content by Ken at Aero Leather

Its been a while since I posted here, my attention was drawn to this thread by a friend, it was pointed out to me as "a suspected fraudulent Aero product being on ebay." Firstly if the OP had bothered to read the text he'd have realised the seller was "Thurston Bros Rough Wear" (an official Aero...

The term Cossack refers to a side buckled, Half Belted back, usually a fairly short jacket, nothing like Einstien''s or Jay's Sticking to VLJ Mode ....Military of cource :)As far as I am aware this is the only WW2 Half Belted jacket ever issued

More here on an old thread https://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/threads/usaaf-irvin.22057/

As you can see from this pic the pocket flap isn't fully lined The joining stitch to the body goes through just the one thickness

OK That gets religion.... pre The Moonies..... and the dinosaurs out of the way Photos are in the "Year Book" section of this...

We have a TV Show in The UK called "THe Repair Shop" Twice recently I've seen them use a Leather Filler to repair tears, wear holes etc, I'd never heard of this before in 50 years of making leather jackets but it seems to work................on the TV screen at least. Well worth a try

This will run for the next few days, clearing up ahead of our long overdue new website launch

Hi Harriet You've nailed the pocket position If you are nervous about cutting the leather, why not mark the pattern out in chalk (or similar) on the wrong side of the leather first so you can double check everything before cutting into any leather How many sq ft have you at your disposdal?

Here's the first one I made, 40 years ago.......how time flies by Photo was taken abour 10 years ago when I managed to buy it back from the poriginal owner ..............and look, the pockets are too big!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

Looking good, I'd agree with you the body needs a tad more length, yes 1" should be spot on Might I also suggest slightly smaller pockets, to my eye they are a wee bit high, they could be closer to the waistband and possibly be fractionally smaller to get the best balance. However, you might...

Hi Harriet Have you decided on your leather yet? If not Avoid anything with too loose a surface, or slightly spongy won't look right and is a bugger to sew Don't know where you live but if I was making my first leather jacket I'd buy a leather sofa on ebay and use the leather from that There...

Possible but unlikely, what you refer to is "cabbage". This is where a factory is supplied with material to make a fixed number of pieces. If the cutters manage to get the said number of garments without using up all the raw materials then the excess belongs to the factory.............or on some...

We've managed in the past ;) Our spec Badalassi has proved to be an improvement on the standard product.....so say all our customers We've seriously upgraded our Jerky Horse We've improved our Doube Faced Goat Suede to 1930s standard, despite taking 30+ years and every tannery we approached...

It's going to be a very subtle improvement, trust us

I doubt the new fleece will be in by then but when ir's ready it will be lighter than our current options Best contact [email protected]