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[unharmed]

What style of jacket? I have used these guys and can't recommend them highly enough: http://www.bookster.co.uk/Tweed/index.html

I had them make me a brown herringbone Harris tweed hacking jacket and it turned out beautifully. Can take some pics if that's the kind of thing you're after.

@Lucifer:

If I want to get myself a nice grey tweed herringbone MTM jacket in IH quality (or, as close as I can get), where do I go? I would rather not pay more than 500-600 USD, is that even possible?

[Lucifer]

@unharmed:

What style of jacket? I have used these guys and can't recommend them highly enough: http://www.bookster.co.uk/Tweed/index.html

I had them make me a brown herringbone Harris tweed hacking jacket and it turned out beautifully. Can take some pics if that's the kind of thing you're after.

@Lucifer:

If I want to get myself a nice grey tweed herringbone MTM jacket in IH quality (or, as close as I can get), where do I go? I would rather not pay more than 500-600 USD, is that even possible?

I'm looking for a tweed jacket I can combine with dark denim, a pair of nice leather boots and a nice shirt for meetings and similar stuff. Something like this for instance:

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=31271875

So your link seems to be spot on! I like to mix denim with classic british tweed. Thanks a bunch!

And if you could post images, that would be great.

[unharmed]

Yup - right up their alley. I have a deep, deep love of tweed and denim. Separately or together. Must be something about traditional workwear materials that makes them work well together 

Couple of crappy phone pics of the piece they made for me:

[Lucifer]

Looks really good! What fabric is that? one of their grey herringbone?

[unharmed]

Brown actually although that's hard to tell from the pics. Just looked at their cloth choices page (http://www.tweed-jacket.com/CLOTH%20PAGE/CLOTH%20GALLERY/index.htm) and it seems they aren't doing the brown Harris Tweed herringbone atm.

[Chris]

Has there ever been a workshirt in hickory stripe?

[Seul]

Yeah - the 07… What?.. I work in it... 

[LandoCal126 0]

@Chris:

Has there ever been a workshirt in hickory stripe?

No there has not….Yet

[DougNg]

The 07 is a western shirt

[Giles]

He knows.  Read his post carefully…....

[Chris]

@Seul:

Yeah - the 07… What?.. I work in it... 

If you call what you do "work", then yeah, I guess you do…

[bagley920]

What's so tactical about a tactical pen?  :-\

[Lucifer]

@bagley920:

What's so tactical about a tactical pen?  :-\

most of them are designed to be used as striking tools in a self defense situation.

[Seul]

Hence why they're so strikingly ugly…

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[Lucifer]

@Seul:

Hence why they're so strikingly ugly…

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I actually like some of the benchmade ones, industrial, non-nonsense design. Not even close to being in the same division (or meant to be) as more dainty pens of course.

Oh, and:

[Seul]

Guess they're a hit or a miss…

[injunjack]

I think tac.pens are meant to be used like kubotan. and now YOU use google. I'm not going to write an article here.

[bagley920]

i know what a kubotan is, but in pen form, just not sure how effective it would actually be

[injunjack]

aw shit… I just looked my response and it wasn't meant to be so harsh as it looks. with YOU I meant all af you who are reading this....

[Chris]

What's kubotan?  Oh wait, you meant me?