The new official TOJ thread, 2011 - Page 1748

Goat = soft, textured all over, slightly water resistant
Lamb = insanely soft, usually smooth (with some natural graining here and there) and not as water resistant. The lamb, though, is the one that people put their hands on and can't get enough of. I think as most can attest to here, the TOJ lamb will make you new friends, whether you want it to, or not.

Zippers: prefer the look of the silver, and the one-way operation is lighter and smoother than the two-way antiques. I just prefer them a whole lot more. It's worth considering what color leather you want first though, and then deciding on the zipper color.


We haven't set it in stone yet, but me and Charly were doing numbers and it's somewhere between those two figures. We haven't figured in a foreign exchange loss rate yet, so still subject to change.

might be worth looking into, though we did reduce the length of the quilt down the arm by 1" on the 2nd sample... didn't mention that as it mostly looked the same but the one inch adjusted it out of interfering with the elbow. That's all that was needed there. Because of the way the quilt is patched on the side, I don't want to cut the quilting too short, as I fear a football-padding look on the shoulder if I were to just cut it off way up the upper arm.

It's textured, similar to scotch grain but milder. It looks good on an MDR.

get the BCDR with quilt, moto does not need quilt.

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yes, eventually, but not right now. I've said it before, but we'll probably still run MTM in some form. If it's a matter of effort and production lot space that MTM vies for though, there will likely be an added surcharge to MTM something rather than buy it off the to-be site in a stock size.