B-Man2
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Looking good T
M442 jacket made by 5* Shawn
Week is almost done - "Thank god it's almost Friday"
Sorry for the crappy Quality of the pic
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B-Man2
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Grant
Been watching the weather up in NY....
Dude... Its time to bring in the Brass Monkey!
Time for some serious Sheepskin up there.
Looks great.
M442 jacket made by 5* Shawn
Week is almost done - "Thank god it's almost Friday"
Sorry for the crappy Quality of the pic
What shoes are you wearing, Thomas?
ausreenactor
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Over the A-2? Interesting.
zoomer
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Underlayer experiment stage 2: A-1 under a 3/4 length wool overcoat.
The coat has only a light satin lining, but unusually, has both zip and button closures.
It's definitely a look - reminiscent of those zip-in dickeys/collared liners in winter coats.
I'll be taking the combo out after the coat is cleaned and will report back.
The coat has only a light satin lining, but unusually, has both zip and button closures.
It's definitely a look - reminiscent of those zip-in dickeys/collared liners in winter coats.
I'll be taking the combo out after the coat is cleaned and will report back.
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zoomer
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It is about time I showed everyone the re-speced Cockpit 37J1.
All work was done by VLJer STEVE S. He relined it in 5.5oz washed muslin, installed sage green knits from workware.hk and a Headwind spec label, sewed the hand warmers shut, and changed the zipper to a nickel bell-pull Talon. While he was in the lining, he also added a (nonspec but useful) vertical inner pocket at my request.
The waistband gave Steve "fits" and indeed turned out to fit too tightly, but I stretched it over my recliner back overnight and it's now quite comfortable.
With an extra inch of knit I can now fold down the collar and it will stay put.
All work was done by VLJer STEVE S. He relined it in 5.5oz washed muslin, installed sage green knits from workware.hk and a Headwind spec label, sewed the hand warmers shut, and changed the zipper to a nickel bell-pull Talon. While he was in the lining, he also added a (nonspec but useful) vertical inner pocket at my request.
The waistband gave Steve "fits" and indeed turned out to fit too tightly, but I stretched it over my recliner back overnight and it's now quite comfortable.
With an extra inch of knit I can now fold down the collar and it will stay put.
Bombing IP
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Burt do you know what a brass monkey is ? .
Jeff
Burt you are exactly right ! .
Jeff
Jeff
Burt you are exactly right ! .
Jeff
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B-Man2
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I believe it was a brass tray which held cannon balls aboard a ship during the Napoleonic War period. If it got freezing cold, the brass tray would contract and let the cannon balls ,which were piled in a stack or pyramid shape, collapse and roll around the ship. So the saying started that it was cold enough to freeze the balls off of a Brass Monkey.
At least that's what I thought it meant......but now I'm not sure... so what did you hear??
ausreenactor
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Pilot
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It is often stated that the phrase originated from the use of a brass tray, called a "monkey", to hold cannonballs on warships in the 16th to 18th centuries. Supposedly, in very cold temperatures the "monkey" would contract, causing the balls to fall off.[15] However, nearly all historians and etymologists consider this story to be a myth. This story has been discredited by the U.S. Department of the Navy,[16] etymologist Michael Quinion, and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).[17]
