Railcar Fine Goods
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He reinforced the whole area too. Prior to the repair, it felt like there was 12oz denim in the crotch from wear. He'll also taper anything, including 25oz denim. They work with all vintage machines. Steven works for the railroad and he repairs a lot of his vintage machines, by himself. I also really like his Spikes009s. It's his signature cut (The Spike) with 16oz sanforized RHT from Kurabo Mills.
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Hey MikeC,
Do they accept non store bought jeans for repair? Did you mail yours to get them repair?
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He reinforced the whole area too. Prior to the repair, it felt like there was 12oz denim in the crotch from wear. He'll also taper anything, including 25oz denim. They work with all vintage machines. Steven works for the railroad and he repairs a lot of his vintage machines, by himself. I also really like his Spikes009s. It's his signature cut (The Spike) with 16oz sanforized RHT from Kurabo Mills.
too bad they´re in the US ^^
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Talking of their vintage machines they use a smaller Union Special circa 1906. Over a 100 years old and still going strong. It's a 1 needle chain stitch machine set up to use heavy gauge thread. It sews the selvedge edge outseam. So if you flip under the selvedge out seam on Railcar jeans, you will see a thick chain stitch there.
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Cool!
The attention to detail is impressive. They are just lovingly created, wearable art. Everything is so immaculate. They clean off the fray from any cut denim before they finish it; the inseams don't have a mess of frayed denim under the overlock stitching, unlike my 634S.
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The more I see from Railcar, the more impressed I get. There's a store in Houston that sells their stuff, Reserve Supply Co. I'll have to head over there and check out the gear. Been meaning to anyway; the owners are friends of a parent from Benjamin's school. My wife met then at a birthday party and told them I'm a denim nerd, so I kinda feel obligated…
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Here ya go Chris, some denim porn of my X-009s to tide you over until your visit to the store. Pictures suck, they are iPhone in a hotel room (what do hotels have against fucking lights anyway) run through iPhoto mobile to try to clean them up.
This is the fourth time I've worn them, needed to change to get ready for a customer dinner so I took some shots. The denim already has creases forming, I think it will have contrasted great fades for sanforized denim.
Fit: front
Fit: back
Fit: side
Detail: pocketwatch pocket, copper burr rivets
Detail of belt loop, thick leather patch, triple stitched seat. Note there's an indigo interior third stitch on the belt loop and it is tucked into a double waistband.
Cuff: outseam
Cuff: inseam. Chain-stitched, well-finished, and note the fuzzy denim
Chainstiched two-piece waistband, selvage detail on fly, triple-stiched seat in background
Interior view of triple-stitched seat, double chainstitched waistband, hidden rivets.
Inside-out view
Silk-screened twill pockets and interior fly detail. Note the center back belt look's interior stitch is not indigo, unlike the others, in order to maintain the continuity of the triple-stitched seat. Another amazing detail on these beautiful jeans.
Chain-stiched selvage outseam at bottom (referenced earlier using that ancient sewing machine, you can see the heavy gauge indigo-dyed yarn) and chainstiched, cleanly-finished inseam
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Well well well. Interesting selvage accents and I'm seeing a triple stitched back and shoulder seam. Hard to tell much else.
EDIT: more pr0n showed up on my Facebook feed.
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Progress shots on Junior's X009 16 oz Kurabo selvedge. Just evening and weekend wear over 3 months. Nice patina on the leather patch already.
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Great jeans. They already look terrific.
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I'm sure you have nothing to do with the design @TrickHell but that website is annoying as hell to read.
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Railcar is the bomb! I'm aging myself with that statement, but they've tapered both my 666-XHS and 666LB with matching thread and done it amazingly each time. I send them all my denim that needs work. The turn around time is great as well. Going to buy a pair of their denim next.
Same here. Railcar Fine Goods did my Loombreakers, Anniversary 21/23 and Overdyed. Overdyed was the only one they couldn't match(obviously) but I told them to go with navy/indigo thread, looks great.
All their work is beautifully done!
