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Freewheelers rude black wear and tear patina etc

Camaro1967

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I didn’t say the Mulholland was jet black (my Centinela is, though) just that I didn’t know if jet black faded any differently than rude black since that was what previous posters were discussing.

As far as I know, the Mulholland is vintage black, but there have been multiple runs of this jacket and I have no idea if the same process was used for each run.

I’ve been to Desolation Row a few times and whenever I go, I always try on something new. You can immediately feel and smell a difference with some jackets, where a Mulholland or a Brakeman, for example, could vary in leather color, sometimes measurements, and no doubt how they were dyed.

As a small anecdote, I held off getting the Centinela for a couple years until I knew they were making it in deerskin. The design of the jacket is very close fitting, so I opted for the more pliable deerskin over horsehide. And the deerskin version is jet black whereas the horsehide version is rude black. These sorts of small differences between jacket runs are everywhere to be found with Freewheelers.
 

TheBigEraser

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I didn’t say the Mulholland was jet black (my Centinela is, though) just that I didn’t know if jet black faded any differently than rude black since that was what previous posters were discussing.

As far as I know, the Mulholland is vintage black, but there have been multiple runs of this jacket and I have no idea if the same process was used for each run.

I’ve been to Desolation Row a few times and whenever I go, I always try on something new. You can immediately feel and smell a difference with some jackets, where a Mulholland or a Brakeman, for example, could vary in leather color, sometimes measurements, and no doubt how they were dyed.

As a small anecdote, I held off getting the Centinela for a couple years until I knew they were making it in deerskin. The design of the jacket is very close fitting, so I opted for the more pliable deerskin over horsehide. And the deerskin version is jet black whereas the horsehide version is rude black. These sorts of small differences between jacket runs are everywhere to be found with Freewheelers.
Thanks brother! I had the previous question because in your post you said, quote "but this is a jet black Mulholland that I’ve casually worn for almost 2 years". But nevermind, you already confirmed this is a vintage black Mulholland. Btw, according to my limited research, Mulholland has only been produced in two kinds of color ways, namely vintage black and vintage brown.

P.S. also FW fan here. Just got one La Brea in Black Jack.
 

Dr H

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This is Jet Black deerskin (FW Journeyman), which is beginning to become patinated, but not really heavily worn. It has almost a bronze undertone in some lights.
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jchance

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as I observe for this several years, there is an active 2nd hand market for freewheelers jacket in China, with the app xianyu, hence, most of people wore it for couple of months and sell it to 2nd hand market before it starts break in, it is hard to find an aged fw jacket especially rude black.
Is the app easy to use? Would sellers be willing to ship internationally?
 

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