FlyingYankee
Active Member
Would some of you show me photos of Roberto's patches?
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Roberto's Patches
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TankBuster
Active Member
I believe he has a website. Maybe someone can post a link.
FlyingYankee said:
I understand this reply is totally useless without photos...but I am a luddite and hate going through downloading photos onto my computer, going to a picture posting place, trying to remember my password, how to load photos there, then trying to remember ow to load pictures on the forum.
His web site shows his patches very well....any photos I would post would not show them any better or worse.
http://italianpatchmaker.it/works.html
Not the best photos, but if you look at the GW shown on the bottom of the page of this thread from over at the Fedora Lounge, you will see Roberto's incised leather version of the 9th AAF shoulder patch and a bit of his 508th FS patch;
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthre ... s!!/page76
I own about a half dozen of Roberto's patches.
They are fantastic.
Actually have a few more I am eyeing.
YoungMedic
Well-Known Member
Here ya go
FlyingYankee
Active Member
Thanks, I ordered a 95th fighter squadron set, but I don't know if the 15th patch is Incised
FlyingYankee
Active Member
Does anyone know how to get wings like that?YoungMedic said:Here ya go
Have to pass pilot training. 
The jacket belongs to forum member tom james
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1277
He can fill you in on where he got the wings.
The jacket belongs to forum member tom james
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1277
He can fill you in on where he got the wings.
shedonwanna
Active Member
Jeff M said:Have to pass pilot training.
The jacket belongs to forum member tom james
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1277
He can fill you in on where he got the wings.
Looks like one of my nametags...I made one for him.
tom james
Member
Hi FlyingYankee, You can find some of Roberto's patches he did for me in Photobucket under Tom James or 404th Fighter Group. Roberto indeed does beautiful work. I also had him do a Group patch for me - unfortunately, my dog also liked it & decided to have a taste of it while my wife & I were at dinner. He is now redoing the patch in a larger size for the back of my dad's tribute jacket. The bullion wings were found a while back on Ebay. I have never seen them since, although I have seen lesser quality ones/very difficult to find period ones without the uniform. And YES, the nametag was done by Shedonwanna.
FlyingYankee
Active Member
Thanks, It was your jacket that inspired me to find out who did the patches. Roberto offered me some aged ones he has for sale. I opted to wait for a new set of 95th FS 15th AF and a fleag for my new Goodwear Dubow. Thanks againtom james said:
ties70
Well-Known Member
grommet said:
Alan,
just in case that are not kidding us...
An incised patch means that the designs main lines are cut into the leather. It gives the design lots of structure...afterwards it gets painted. As this was a specialty of the MTO in WWII, Roberto has perfected this kind of technique
Some examples, not by Roberto but by me
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Best regards
Ties
a2jacketpatches
Active Member
Great job, good to see some something here. Hat type of leather? I know veg tan is the most popular, easy to work with, and almost certainly used, but there was also a much softer type. It's a little squishy almost like chamois. Just wondering if anyone has gone that route yet.
shedonwanna
Active Member
a2jacketpatches said:
Veg tanned goat and sheep can be incised but does not hold up to other stamping/beveling tooling techniques. I believe most of the period incised work we see was goat.
a2jacketpatches
Active Member
Yes, that sounds about right. Veg tanned goat and sheep is available but not as good for tooling as VT cowhide. I've seen incised done with several types of leather, but I'm shooting for a soft flexible goat or something as opposed to the stiffer VT stuff.
shedonwanna
Active Member
Shop around. Veg tanned can be soft/flexible. The firmness/stiffness can set in if the leather is reprocessed along the way. Often a chrome process will be re-tanned as veg and marketed as veg tanned and is usually more stiff. For years I've been trying to locate sources for the white hides used for the chits.a2jacketpatches said:
a2jacketpatches
Active Member
Any luck at all with chit leather? I found several hides over the years that you could almost say is perfect, but never a consistent supply and usually no positive ID. Ebay has a natural finish goatskin in the pearl gray, almost white, just like the real deal. It would stain easily and end up smearing just like the real thing, but most feedback I got over the years from customers is that they want it to look as good later as it does today. So I just purchase thin finished white leather, age accordingly, and seal it in forever.
