![]() ![]() I knew he had retired from touring, but if the Stones could still tour well into their seventies, why not? I loved the idea of taking my kids to see him live. One day, a year or so before this, driving through our neighborhood after picking them up from school, Bean asked if we could go to a David Bowie concert sometime. My wife and I joked that it was because he was the patron saint of weirdos and our house was full of them. In December of 2015, Bean even asked for a giant stuffed Chewbacca and a giant stuffed David Bowie. When Bean was a toddler, she, her sister, and I would spend summer vacation watching Labyrinth almost daily we’d flip through videos on YouTube, dancing and singing. Her sister, Sophia, used to watch Labyrinth semi-weekly as a toddler, too. She knew about my love for his music, the movie Labyrinth, but she also knew that my daughter, Bean, had inherited my obsession. Sorry if you’re hearing it from me first. It said: I know how much you love David Bowie and I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to hear yet, but he passed away yesterday. It's really smooth and shiny with a fine grain and has some nice wrinkles in it.When I checked my phone the morning of January 11, 2016, I had a message from a former student of mine who worked the night shift at the Hard Rock Casino in town. I finally got a shipment yesterday of some really nice lambhide that I think will do the trick. I've made a few in cowhide and also in goat hide. It's made from real leather, this is confirmed by people who've actually handled the real codpiece in person. The picture is taken 30 years later and it has fallen apart a bit so you can see inside a bit. The reason is you get a sharper edge that way. What you see peeking through is actually yellow rubber foam. The center cut out is a hole in the foam where leather wraps over the ege but it goes only a millimeter or so over the edge. I do this as well. The construction is a shape cut out in rubber foam covered with leather glued on top. His voice is even more amazing in person, and presence on stage is phenomenal. And just to make y'all jealous - I got meet James Earl Jones a couple of years ago when he did a play on Broadway. I have some that is so smooth and shiny that it looks like vinyl, and other with various surface textures and amounts of gloss. The surface finishes on garment leathers can vary greatly, so your best bet would be to look at some in person to find the texture that you want. (forgive the comments about a codpiece with stiffener and stuffing please - I know it's hard to believe that a bad-ass like Vader might need stuffing and stiffening - but then again he had a lot of medical problems - I guess the force can't do everything).Įven if the original is pleather, there's no reason why you can't make yours from real leather! Goat is pretty nice to work with in garment weights, but others are fine too. Front and straps appear to be a single piece of leather, so could take some creative design to get the straps folded over as in the picture. Outer piece, piping and center piece are probably glued and sewn from the back side. The piping around the center piece has either no cord or very thin cord. There's also some sort of stuffing material there to give it thickness, particularly around the bottom edge and behind the center piece to give it fullness. I'd also guess that there's some sort of bag stiffener behind the main front piece to help keep that curve. The inner liner does look like it might be leather, however, since that does look right for chrome tan (a bluish color). Since garment leather is usually mostly struck through, we wouldn't see that. If you look at the piping around the center piece you can see a bit of very light color peeking through. I'm pretty sure the original is at least partly vinyl. It's a great cheap material that behaves much like leather, and can be used to make mockups for stuff. Vinyl is pretty useful even for leatherworkers. I suspect the change came about to set newer more durable vinyl products apart from earlier products that became brittle after a few years. The "herd of naugas" joke is an oldie but very much still a goodie! Marketing departments started actually advertising naugahyde as a "feature" in the 70's - before that it was just vinyl. ![]()
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