Japan November 2013…...

[ohighyo]

Buttonholers!! The most difficult machine used to make jeans. The guy that works on my machines cringes when I mention buttonhole machines, especially Reece buttonhole machines. That is not a Reece though. 
(only machine I haven't bought yet)

[Max Power]

I love the key holders that seem to be sold on the 464. Any chance they'll make it here seperately?

[Winchy]

Here's another video, this time of the Hachioji branch.

Please excuse the letterbox'ing of the video but if i spend any more time trying to figure out the problem in FCP my Mac may well end up being thrown at the wall.

[Aetas]

@Winchy:

….may well end up being thrown at the wall.

:o; Don´t do that. I want to see more of your work adventure!

[JCMx800]

Cool video!

[FurattoHeddo]

Great video Winch

[Seul]

Thoroughly enjoyed that…

[ronaldlsh]

Really cool video!! I really want to visit the Iron Heart Store in Japan!

[louisbosco]

@ronaldlsh:

Really cool video!! I really want to visit the Iron Heart Store in Japan!

[Giles]

Jeans factory continued…

The denim being cut.  The factory does have automated cutters, but our heavy stuff has to be done manually...

[Giles]

Jeans factory continued…

Faults in the denim are marked with white chalk so that they can be easily spotted and worked around..

A pile of discard on the floor

This leg found to have a fault in it after being cut out, so it is being used as a template to cut a good leg

Inoha gets to grips with the inseam chainstitcher

Could have gone better, so Sarina is offering "advice"

Then Akashi, owner of the shirt workshop comes to pick us up and can't help marvelling at some UHR's

Just a few rolls of denim awaiting conversion….(all of that is non selvedge)...

[Finn666]

again some great pics G.
btw. what shirt is Inoha wearing? UES?

[Giles]

Finn,  Sorry I don't know.  G

[davito]

G thx for all these nice and interesting pix

[FurattoHeddo]

@Finn666:

again some great pics G.
btw. what shirt is Inoha wearing? UES?

It's Jelado, I believe…

global.rakuten.com/en/store/realdeal-sendai/item/10002492/?s-id=borderless_recommend_item_en

[MikeC]

I believe NoKipple will be stocking that very flannel.

[Finn666]

@FurattoHeddo:

It's Jelado, I believe…

yap, pretty much looks like it…thanks Tom!

[summ3rhays]

Great pics and it was fun to watch the video. Cool insight into the process and people!

[IHIHIH]

informative & cool pics ..

[Giles]

OK, I've woken up again…

At the shirting factory...

Stacks of patterns

Little miracles of engineering…

This is the triple chainstitch head that does all of our triple stitching….

This bit I found mind boggling.  Not all thread that is ostensibly the same, is actually exactly the same from batch to batch or spin to spin.  The threads may have different roughnesses, so this little device allows the operator to adjust the pre-needle friction on each thread, so when the 3 threads get to the needles, they are at exactly the same tension….

Random sewing stuff…

The sample cutter….