Post by Kaplan on Mar 16, 2011 13:12:49 GMT -5
This update is long overdue.
First of all, this is a CUSTOM jacket. The specs are not Magnoli's standard specs. I made a lot of changes and they are all specific to my body type. I have a super long torso.
I ordered my Magnoli Raiders goat a couple of years back and it has been a strange jacket in my experience. When I first got it, I was surprised how thin the goat was for how strong and stiff it felt. I knew I would have to put it through the ringer in order to break it in. So I did the washer dryer method. The jacket shrunk up about two sizes. It started out at about a 44L and ended up a 40R. I was about to give up on it when I decided to get it wet again and see if I could stretch it out. I decided that the dryer would be a bad idea this time, so I just hung it up wet and pulled all the panels with my hands. MAN did it stretch out. By the time it dried, it was a little BIG on me! And stiff! I put pecard boot oil on it and it soaked it up so fast I decided to put more. It drank up a whole 8 OZ bottle! I couldn't believe it. But now it feels and looks new again, but softer than before.
This is my favorite jacket I own
Enough talk... Here's the pics.
BTW, the hat in the pics is my AB Deluxe Grey "Kaplan Jr." w/ bound brim by our good friend Marc.
Comparison with Magnoli Lamb (lamb on top):
Dropped on the floor at shoulder height (goat left, lamb right):
First of all, this is a CUSTOM jacket. The specs are not Magnoli's standard specs. I made a lot of changes and they are all specific to my body type. I have a super long torso.
I ordered my Magnoli Raiders goat a couple of years back and it has been a strange jacket in my experience. When I first got it, I was surprised how thin the goat was for how strong and stiff it felt. I knew I would have to put it through the ringer in order to break it in. So I did the washer dryer method. The jacket shrunk up about two sizes. It started out at about a 44L and ended up a 40R. I was about to give up on it when I decided to get it wet again and see if I could stretch it out. I decided that the dryer would be a bad idea this time, so I just hung it up wet and pulled all the panels with my hands. MAN did it stretch out. By the time it dried, it was a little BIG on me! And stiff! I put pecard boot oil on it and it soaked it up so fast I decided to put more. It drank up a whole 8 OZ bottle! I couldn't believe it. But now it feels and looks new again, but softer than before.
This is my favorite jacket I own
Enough talk... Here's the pics.
BTW, the hat in the pics is my AB Deluxe Grey "Kaplan Jr." w/ bound brim by our good friend Marc.
Comparison with Magnoli Lamb (lamb on top):
Dropped on the floor at shoulder height (goat left, lamb right):
Sorry to anyone who did it first, but I don't remember. Anyway I got the idea from always putting my jackets down in the same spot when I take them off. From across the room I can tell which jacket is which by the way they lay there. So I thought it would be a good demostration as to how the leathers are. Eveyone's moniter shows different colors, and you can't reach through the screen to touch them, so it seemed to me this would give a lot of information to a viewer that a written description couldn't. 
I should put some pics up of it soon.
