Heavyweight Denim Championships 2013-2015 - Official Thread
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It's a good idea to soak periodically, especially when the jeans are new and are stiffer and still have a lot of starch
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Just one more time: disregard Nerkg's comments and soak your 25 oz jeans at least after a couple of weeks of wear… Especially if you cuff your jeans or if you're prone to crotch blowouts...
No disrespect Kev, but they won't last two years without a soak...
To each his own. My buddy had a par 4 years never touched water. Not a blowout to speak of. The denim wasp re brittle but 4 years is a little excessive , you get the point though. I'm not saying water dosent help denim last longer, it does, I'm just saying its not that big a deal. There just jeans, I'd rather enjoy them the way they are.
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Gave mine a 20 min soak in warm-hot water, with slight agitation. Minimal shrinkage, maybe 1/4-1/2" in length, less that in the waist/thighs. I didn't lose much indigo at all in the tub, just a slight blue tint to the water. I'm not sure how much starch came out since:
I'm just glad I left all but the top button done up,just getting that one buttoned took some effort.
Fit is great. I was concerned about the taper, but it is so slight I don't even notice. Leg opening is perfect with boots IMO, which is a very good thing since I'm expecting my custom White's Bounty Hunters soon. I'll try and post some fit pics if I can get the wife to help, but since she was teasing me about photographing my belts last night, I can't promise she'll cooperate.;)These are already my favorite pair ever. I'm relatively new when it comes to awesome denim, I currently own a pair of dc4001s(awesome), Roy RS03(love those too), and N&FxMomotaro Skinny Guys(fabric is really nice, but I really only bought them for the long inseam..should have done more research back then.) Once the MBBs settle, they'll be perfect.
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Also, my favorite custom folding knife fits in the knife pocket like it was made for it.
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MBB fit pics:
Agreed on the coin…yours looks like a Morgan from the last year of minting. Are the wings on the eagle spread, or folded? There were Peace Dollars from '21(first issue)
Here's a few of my favorite coins....Walking Liberty Half, Peace Dollar(note the difference in the "crown or tiara"), and my Order of the Black Shamrock challenge coin:
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Thats a stellar fit right there HV.
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Great fit and an Emerson fan too I see!
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finally, to end up round one…
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Awesome fit, HV! What did you hem at?
Thanks….these are simply the best fitting jeans, ever. As to the hem question....no hem, those are the longest length they had in a 32! (Paula promised to send me whichever pair measured longest, which I greatly appreciated) I'm tall and have freakishly long legs....if I undo the single cuff, I can kind of get stacks going..kind of
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Great fit and an Emerson fan too I see!
Yup..my CQC-5 fits the knife pocket on the MBBs perfectly! My old school custom CQC-8 will see a lot of pocket time in these jeans too, and I'll be wearing them to the Blade show in Atlanta next month.
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Thats a stellar fit right there HV.
qft!…actually all the fits i´ve seen so far are ace.
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HC-IH-69
IH-634S Size 34First every pair of Iron Hearts. First fit pics.
They seem big to me. Should I size down 1.
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Welcome, nicely done Sopiarz3.
@Nerkg, they're still really stiff, they'll look much more natural in a few weeks. Sopiarz3's on a great fit.
@nietenhosen beautiful finish, true class.
