Aero leather tumbled black advice needed!!!

DoomKab00m · Oct 29, 2019

Hi everyone!

I’m a long time lurker and I love aero jackets.

Im writing here to get opinions about my latest jacket.

What do you make of this leather? Do you think it will age nicely? Slowly?

I’m not sure I like it... but to be fair, I am very picky customer (a nightmare) and I thought better ask someone else before I write to Aero.

I have several jackets in tumbled black. My 4th arrived few months ago and I really loved the leather! It was very different to all my previous jackets, very grainy, soft, showing the brown underneath... I like it so much that I pulled the trigger and ordered a fifth with the same characteristics.

However the leather is not either like the regular tumbled I’m used to, nor like my 4th jacket. It’s again like nothing I’ve seen. I’m not sure I like it.

please tell me what you think...

DoomKab00m · Oct 29, 2019

Second pic shows (top to bottom) a “normal” tumbled black; my beloved grainy tumbled black; and the latest jacket for comparison.

Seb Lucas · Oct 29, 2019

You say you are a picky customer. Does that mean you are sometimes unsatisfied even when you should be? What is it you don't like about the look - the texture? I'm not keen on the 'cracking', if that's the right word. But I would need to see it in person. Generally with leathers I stop thinking about them a fortnight in.

Thuggee · Oct 29, 2019

Kind of looks like veins, I guess that’s a side effect of the tumbling? will probably look like a cool jacket with some wear, me personally I don’t like smooth uniform leather just wear the hell out of it and enjoy it

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Guppy · Oct 29, 2019

It looks to me like paper that has been crumpled up into a ball, then smoothed out. It has creases. To me, it's not a very good look, and it does look very different from the other example. I'd wonder whether it truly went through the same process, for if it did, how could it look so different? The only cure may be to crinkle it more. Roll the leather back and forth in different directions, again and again, until the creases blend away, and the whole thing softens up.

nick123 · Oct 29, 2019

Looks like a good cigar leaf!

ton312 · Oct 29, 2019

I don't care for the front panels...they look semi-tumbled to me. Those hard creases are strange. Maybe throw it in the dryer on no heat setting and finish the job?

Boyo · Oct 29, 2019

I would like to see a picture with the jacket on.. I see the areas ( I think ) that you're not happy about but in the one picture above I cant be sure if I love it or hate it..

Will Zach · Oct 29, 2019

If I was that ambivalent about the leather I'd return it if it was an option. $1,100 is too much to spend on a jacket and not love it.

These veins look weird. Bad batch?

Carlos840 · Oct 29, 2019

It does look like a bodybuilders forearm...

AlexB · Oct 29, 2019

I don’t understand why they just go ahead an produce a jacket in such “characterful” hide. Obviously it looks very different from what they show on their website when you look up the tumbled CXL and it looks different from what you find when you look here.

It would be so easy to quickly send an iPhone snap of the hide before starting to cut a jacket and risking to have an unsatisfied customer. Of course there is variation in a natural product and this shouldn’t be the standard procedure and only applied for very unique leathers like this one.

They could even post pictures of these hides here or on their website. In the end it would be a win win situation as I am pretty sure there are people out there that would love to have a jacket made from such a unique hide. Maybe it’s the Bodybuilder as mentioned before.

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Psant25 · Oct 29, 2019

My recent highwayman in black tumbled I specified extra grainy and I was a little worried when it arrived. Was more pronounced than yours. After some water and wear has evened out some. I like it and ordered another jacket (chips) in black tumbled yesterday. This time I did not specify “extra grainy.” Just the recent batch I guess

Psant25 · Oct 29, 2019

here it is spanking new

the crumply paper look to some of it has smoothed out some and now just more grainy. I think if you do not like it return/exchange now and early if you can

Hh121 · Oct 29, 2019

blaupulp said:
I don’t understand why they just go ahead an produce a jacket in such “characterful” hide. Obviously it looks very different from what they show on their website when you look up the tumbled CXL and it looks different from what you find when you look here.

It would be so easy to quickly send an iPhone snap of the hide before starting to cut a jacket and risking to have an unsatisfied customer. Of course there is variation in a natural product and this shouldn’t be the standard procedure and only applied for very unique leathers like this one.

They could even post pictures of these hides here or on their website. In the end it would be a win win situation as I am pretty sure there are people out there that would love to have a jacket made from such a unique hide. Maybe it’s the Bodybuilder as mentioned before.

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Because their business is so good that they don't feel any improvement is needed.

jacketjunkie · Oct 29, 2019

Don't like that crumbled paper look at all. Whatever sort of imperfections these are, I wouldn't want them on my thousand dollar jacket. Horween FQHH always has some small imperfections, that's in the nature of the natural product, I get it, but this is more than a scar or something, this is structurally above the entire hide..

Hh121 · Oct 29, 2019

Where is a quality control?? That jacket deserve a blue label.

Psant25 · Oct 29, 2019

To me the symmetry of the grain makes more of a difference.

i had one plain cxl jacket after it broke in it had just a large area of grain on one sleeve. That drove me nuts.

being tumbled I suppose the cutters can see this better. They matched up heavy grain areas very nicely and it is symmetric side to side.

Edward · Oct 29, 2019

I quite like it, myself. To an extent I'd expect that any hide which has been given a bit of an artificial break-in before making the jacket might have some slight oddity before it's fully broken in, but personally I can't see this being an issue a rainshower or two and a month's wear down the line.

Course, the thing with leather is that, being organic, no two hides are ever going to be entirely identical, even tanned the same and from the same tannery. I'd see it as making it different enough that you can justify *another* black leather jacket....

I do think we all have a tendency to over-think the small details on these things sometimes - and I'm as guilty of that myself.

Cheshire Symposium · Oct 29, 2019

I like it and I’d probably wear it. It might be worth giving it a chance and see how it develops.

HoosierDaddy · Oct 29, 2019

I think it looks too extreme. Over the top crinkly.

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