Swedish Leather over mittens Mod.
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I have these over mitts and love them over wool.
However, in deep cold, and while we are talking gauntlets I love USAF N3b mitts.
Fantastic job Dave! Your smock arrived yet? Looking forward to a peek!
Best.
Chris.
However, in deep cold, and while we are talking gauntlets I love USAF N3b mitts.
Fantastic job Dave! Your smock arrived yet? Looking forward to a peek!
Best.
Chris.
I walked right int that one!
Cheers Mate.
Hier Chris. Thanks. Yes, the smock arrived. I'll take a couple of photos for you and stick them under the thread. Its really good. Ive tried it on, with a 200g baselayer, and slipped a zipped 400g baselayer in through the sleeve or down the open neck, or bottom, and you can take it on and off, whilst leaving the smock on. inside pockets exactly same as outside, so you can leave your glove inners in in the inside one.Its pretty good. Although I woudnt want to wear it with my leather belt kit, as it might stain it and Im sure Id end up with a big brown circle round my waist.
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Mate. as you know! Its going to get mighty dirty anyway!!
A few stains add to the character, and tell their own stories, and that material should wash up pretty well on a hot wash!!
Never trust a winter back woods man with a pristine snow smock!! Lol!!.
Best.
Chris.
A few stains add to the character, and tell their own stories, and that material should wash up pretty well on a hot wash!!
Never trust a winter back woods man with a pristine snow smock!! Lol!!.
Best.
Chris.
Yeh, I suppose so. I also got the alpaca woollen sash which is about 12foot long!
Nicely done Dave 
much more practical I think at that length.
While I'm commenting though, can I ask how one would clean the leather and cotton cuffs on a vintage pair of those arctic mitts?
I was cleaning out the cupboard where I keep camping stuff and there's a totally sound, but incredibly grubby pair (complete with twill cotton tape holding the two together so they can't be lost) that's been kicking about in HWMBLT's kit for near fifty years.
The leather is flexible, soft and has absolutely no damage, so has the cotton, just that they're both stained looking.
I can't ever see us using them now, but still, I'd rather they were cleaned up.
Incidentally, the cuffs on these old ones are elasticated (and that's still sound too) and they come up almost to the elbows.
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much more practical I think at that length. While I'm commenting though, can I ask how one would clean the leather and cotton cuffs on a vintage pair of those arctic mitts?
I was cleaning out the cupboard where I keep camping stuff and there's a totally sound, but incredibly grubby pair (complete with twill cotton tape holding the two together so they can't be lost) that's been kicking about in HWMBLT's kit for near fifty years.
The leather is flexible, soft and has absolutely no damage, so has the cotton, just that they're both stained looking.
I can't ever see us using them now, but still, I'd rather they were cleaned up.
Incidentally, the cuffs on these old ones are elasticated (and that's still sound too) and they come up almost to the elbows.
M
Cheers Toddy. I just used saddle soap on the gloves, dried them and then painted melted beeswax on them, put them in a canvas bag and dropped them in the drier for twenty minutes. So the beswax covered the canvas gauntlets as well. [That wasnt really supposed to happen.] But people use a product called sno-seal on them in the States.
If there is a correct way of doing it, I dont know it. depends how 'vintage' they are I suppose. Handwash them? As Chris said about my anorak, in the end you might have to just accept them as 'character marks'.
If there is a correct way of doing it, I dont know it. depends how 'vintage' they are I suppose. Handwash them? As Chris said about my anorak, in the end you might have to just accept them as 'character marks'.
Cheers for that Dave
Himself says he bought them when he was in the Scouts (as a v. young leader) and it's definitely 50 years ago.
I suspect they're wartime vintage, but the quality is superb.
Character ? aye, well, maybe
M
Himself says he bought them when he was in the Scouts (as a v. young leader) and it's definitely 50 years ago.
I suspect they're wartime vintage, but the quality is superb.
Character ? aye, well, maybe
M
Very uesful mod. Really cold snow on my wrists is nearly painful.
In a Trade Show, McBride was voted as the #1 snowmobile destination in North America.
The riders generally wear sport-designed gloves with substantial gauntlets, goggle wiper blade and amazing manual dexterity
despite the thickness. I have a pair just for general outdoor winter stuff like shovelling snow drifts, etc.
In a Trade Show, McBride was voted as the #1 snowmobile destination in North America.
The riders generally wear sport-designed gloves with substantial gauntlets, goggle wiper blade and amazing manual dexterity
despite the thickness. I have a pair just for general outdoor winter stuff like shovelling snow drifts, etc.
as a year round biker (with raynauds) those gloves sound interesting. any paricular ones you'd reccomend having a gander at?
Tried to put a different font in where i wrote inside your quote above but it wont have it for some reason 
Let's see if this gets you there.
http://www.chokodesign.com/catalog/en/cat_acc_gloves_leather.html
I wear a size 12 shoe. My knee-high snowmobile boots have to be 1"+ thick with a removable liner, light as feathers but GIGANTIC!!!!!
http://www.chokodesign.com/catalog/en/cat_acc_gloves_leather.html
I wear a size 12 shoe. My knee-high snowmobile boots have to be 1"+ thick with a removable liner, light as feathers but GIGANTIC!!!!!
OH. A serious caution that I have to explain:
Sled-head gloves all come with a goggle/visor squeegee strip, usually on the side of the left index finger of the gloves.
When you're out in the winter, it's cold, -10C - -20C, maybe your nose gets a little runny,
do NOT attempt to wipe your nose with that thing. Cold, stiff and cuts like a knife.
Do it once, then cut the stitching and take it off.
Sled-head gloves all come with a goggle/visor squeegee strip, usually on the side of the left index finger of the gloves.
When you're out in the winter, it's cold, -10C - -20C, maybe your nose gets a little runny,
do NOT attempt to wipe your nose with that thing. Cold, stiff and cuts like a knife.
Do it once, then cut the stitching and take it off.
Good idea. Mmmmm, I reckon I'll just keep a microfibre cloth handy though.
If it gets too runny Im sure some kind soul, [like Bob] might lend me the back of their glove, right?
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