Recent content by TheDonEffect

For sure, Horween, Shinki, etc are amazing in their own right, but I think for many it becomes a meeting your heroes situation in that the reality isn't all the great, much like raw denim. The stock steerhide is a great leather and will last generations with proper upkeep, and it has a great...

Yeah the naked one is the one I had. I like the top coat one too but it is a little more stiff and the color depth iirc wasn't as good. Sigh, hello rabbit hole, we meet again.

My first jacket was done with that steerhide, and it's actually really great. Very wearable, very durable, and the jacket just feels like quality. They make their contracted jackets with LEO and such with it, and a ton of actual riding jackets. I then went down the rabbit hole and didn't...

Amazing jacket! Gotta love that leather.

Beautiful jacket!

Awesome story!

For sure. Even within this batch, there apparently is some that has a little more sheen than others, same goes with CXL. And then when you compare to other makers, particularly the JDMs, the variance is even great since they get first dibs on batches and apply their secret sauce to it. But...

IIRC it was slightly stiffer than Shinki but much less so than CXL. Looking back at my earlier post to jog my memory, it was more akin to the Masaye leather which is very wearable from day one.

Yeah CXL definitely has a bit more luster than this Shinki, but I imagine with a bit of conditioner it'll brighten it up. I'm good either way tbh as it still has good luster and doesn't have quite the same residue feeling CXL has especially when fresh. My CXL is skived and somewhat broken in...

Yeah it seems their operations run two lines, manufacturing and alterations, so oftentimes the alteration side if much faster than the manufacturing side, which seems to be the case for you. I've had one of my jackets in for alterations and it took longer than three weeks IIRC.

Here are some additional pics. Please disregard any blue/purple tones in the photos, just the light reflecting off my walls, the color of the jacket is totally black. Another observation today, compared to CXL, CXL is more inky black, but I imagine with a little conditioner to this Shinki it...

Thanks. It didn't seem any more or less stock than usual, they usually keep it pretty full. I think slowly but surely the styles being stocked are more in demand with more variety of hides.

Thank you. I'm sure your jacket will be amazing. When the batch of shinki arrived, I was able to check it out. True to fashion, the batch is pretty consistent for the most part, not aniline leather consistent but more consistent than cxl. I just took a look at the jacket next to my cxl jacket...

The eagle has landed. Apologies for the delays, this jacket was ready like three weeks ago, but I was out of town. Anyway, finally had some time today to pick it up. I believe it's the first one done from the Canuck Panda Shinki batch. First off, big thanks again to Canuck Panda for making...

Sorry for the late reply, yes that appears to be mine, been needing to pick it up but I've been out of town. Yes, it's with the shinki batch as well.