Back in the A-2 game

[crism1]

Oh snap. I remeber when I bought my Strat used from a German guy. It took 15 days just for the package to just come out the german international shipment center. Usually when I buy from UK it's 5 days with Royal Mail. And I thought italian posts were extremely inefficient :/

 

[Pilot]

No more DHL for me UPS, FEDEX, EMS or TNT...
Not the cheapest ( roughly 87 Euro within EU for an A-2 jacket well packed) ...3 days max...plus they provide the packing.

 

[Griffon_301]

DHL is quite ok here, it's the Austrian Post that fu#&s things up generally...their logistics management is a big pile of monkey boo...

 

[Smithy]

Never mind the bloody jacket where the hell is the mo??!!

VLJ's resident Flashheart/Flashman is no more

 

[MikeyB-17]

All things must pass, Smithy me old mate. Have to say that currently I am enjoying the smoother profile. As is my wife.

 

[saucerfiend]

Well to my great surprise it arrived today. I think it's safe to say I'm well pleased. As stated, it's an old one, predating my previous 1997 example. I'm pretty certain it's steer, it's very similar to my old one and not as thin and flexible as horse. Ring snaps, not the nipple snaps my old one had. Zip is one of the old, plastic-reinforced, ugly square Talons.
The moths have had a good go at the waist knit, a lot more holes than were in the description, but most are inside and I've sewn them all up, so it doesn't detract too much. Otherwise condition is outstanding, No wear at all to the leather, hardly any to the lining. It's not really properly broken in, although there's grain appearing in several places. Fit probably couldn't be much better. Less tunneling to the sleeves than my old one, and that was made for me.
I may look into pricing for knit replacement and possibly getting rid of that old Talon, the nickel one on my old ELC was streets ahead of this one. I'm almost certainly going to send it in for a nametag, as I always like to have one, may have the other stuff done as well. On the whole though, it's really nice to have another decent A-2.
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Like the new hat?

Perfect fit! I can see you're completely delighted. Enjoy it Mikey!

Brian

 

[MikeyB-17]

I sure am Brian. Ironically, it occurs to me that I paid more for this one second hand than I did for my old one new!