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Good Wear M-422
- Thread starter blaze424
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blaze424 said:
This is a big step closer, and check out the label ...
http://www.goodwearleather.com/photos/A ... gen_01_44/
airfrogusmc
Well-Known Member
Yeah John said a week or so ago that after he got back into town he had a couple of jackets in front of mine then he needed to make a test jacket then comes the Monarch. Maybe another month? I can't wait....
airfrogusmc
Well-Known Member
Ok guys Just got off the phone with JC should have the new jacket in a week or so.
Heres some photos of the proto type. The difference in my jacket will be original 1940s more golden colored mouton. Brown buttons and a triple stamped talon.
http://www.goodwearleather.com/photos/M422_01_46/
Heres some photos of the proto type. The difference in my jacket will be original 1940s more golden colored mouton. Brown buttons and a triple stamped talon.
http://www.goodwearleather.com/photos/M422_01_46/
Not sure I agree it beats all other repros...OK, it is only a test jacket and therefore any comments are subject to seeing the proper jackets but the collar looks wrong, way too large and there is work to be done before it can live up to the early excitement; for me it doesn't better an Eastman (yet)....
Grant
Well-Known Member
True John's new M422 has a ways to go before it's there - but once he irons out a few details his new repro looks like it'll be far ahead of what ELC and all other repro makers have been making for years. I never understood why for years ELC has been making a repro M-422a with a wide cut back panels, strange curly mouton, what looks like oversized sized pockets in proportion to the jacket and odd light brown color goatskin. Just MHO!
... and no I'm no GW ambassador - just a USN jacket geek.
... and no I'm no GW ambassador - just a USN jacket geek.
blaze424
Member
I agree with Grant on Eastman. I've owned all the repro G-1s and an array of original M-422, 55j14, 7823 early series jackets and no repro (up until now) has come close, to include Eastman and Aero.
I think the difficulty in executing a sound G-1 repro lies in the construction complexity of the Navy jackets versus the more easily made A-2s (easy being a relative term).
I think John just might do it. And he deserves all due praise for doing so.
From the photos, I think the throat latch is a bit off, as is the color (as John agreed). Everything else, at this point, seems spot on. Collar does seem large, but then again, it hasn't had 40 years of avgas soaked propwash and sweat mixed into the fur - so maybe that is how it looked new.
Kudos to John at Goodwear.
Well done.
I think the difficulty in executing a sound G-1 repro lies in the construction complexity of the Navy jackets versus the more easily made A-2s (easy being a relative term).
I think John just might do it. And he deserves all due praise for doing so.
From the photos, I think the throat latch is a bit off, as is the color (as John agreed). Everything else, at this point, seems spot on. Collar does seem large, but then again, it hasn't had 40 years of avgas soaked propwash and sweat mixed into the fur - so maybe that is how it looked new.
Kudos to John at Goodwear.
Well done.
havocpaul said:paul,
me thinks you're the roving ELC ambassador............
Not at all, Impy, just saying what I see and trying to be rational,
loving the sun![/quote]
reminds me of the child who spotted the emperor's new clothes/jkt...........
