As part of my recycling strategy and i suppose to populate that there thread, here it goes. A beautiful Patagonia jacket which I saved for £20 from one of the BBers wardrobes. I just needed the sleeve for water jacket duties.
Would have been such a shame letting a lovely Patagonia jacket go in the bin. So I spoke to Dan who thought it'd cost £20 tops to do a job on it and save it. Sadly he underestimated the time it'd take and misquoted. I had the hat removed and arms taken off - one of which to be used as my water bladder sleeve - and also resized with a new zip. He added a lovely zipper that's same or higher quality than a YKK and it's a glow-in-the-dark.
The result is phenomenal and it can be seen he spent many man-hours loving it up and re-engineering it. It's now a beautiful body warmer and no longer USA sized belay. Fit is closer to a Rab microlight in medium.
Fast forward to now... I've spent £45 altogether so far and think it should benefit the wider community. I really reckon it has many many more years of life left thanks to Dan (Ledburner on here) without whom it would have been a lost case.
Here's the pics and proceeds will go to either my Yemen-Hunger-Crisis page, the RNLI or the Mountain Rescue team Greg works for. I will let the winner decide that and after receiving payment I will forward it on. I will also absorb the postage costs
Stitching as you can see is spot-on
Hat was removed
He even managed to save the bungee cord which is genius in my books
Can be compacted into smaller than an Arcteryx boot both quality...
Feels so nice when on
Charity auction: L/M Patagonia Belay jacket converted to vest
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Charity auction: L/M Patagonia Belay jacket converted to vest
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Re: Auction: L/M Patagonia Belay jacket converted to vest
Bidding we will start at £11
Please only bid if you plan to utilise or gift to someone that'll use it. It's too high tech and invested-in to have it laying about.
Happy bidding and if there's anything you can do to raise the profile and grt more interest then feel free. I left it off ebay as I feel it'll be more appreciated here. Plus Dans workmanship really does need to be seen/admired.
Proceeds via myself to YemenHungerCrisis, Mtn Rescue Calderdale/Todmorden or the RNLI so your bid will be doing, well... erm... 'go nice places, do nice things'. Alpkit would be so proud!
Please only bid if you plan to utilise or gift to someone that'll use it. It's too high tech and invested-in to have it laying about.
Happy bidding and if there's anything you can do to raise the profile and grt more interest then feel free. I left it off ebay as I feel it'll be more appreciated here. Plus Dans workmanship really does need to be seen/admired.
Proceeds via myself to YemenHungerCrisis, Mtn Rescue Calderdale/Todmorden or the RNLI so your bid will be doing, well... erm... 'go nice places, do nice things'. Alpkit would be so proud!
Re: Charity auction: L/M Patagonia Belay jacket converted to vest
Oooo what's the pit to pit measurement please.
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Re: Charity auction: L/M Patagonia Belay jacket converted to vest
Thanks Hux...
52cm edge to edge at the waiste.
53cm pit to pit.
46cm shoulder to shoulder..
70cm top of neck front to the bottom end of zipper.
81cm back of neck to bottom of spine
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Re: Charity auction: L/M Patagonia Belay jacket converted to vest
Marks above didn't wash out when I put it through the wash before sending it for resizing...
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Some pen marks which I'm sure will just wash out...
These are really the only wear/tear marks I can see but even then I doubt it'd cause problem (as it seems to be a double sleeve for the bungee cord running through
Re: Charity auction: L/M Patagonia Belay jacket converted to vest
Sadly too small for me
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Re: Charity auction: L/M Patagonia Belay jacket converted to vest
Not a problem Hux... such a shame