lets see your patches :-)

modifiedamerican

Been Around the Block
ill post my pics tonight. got my first motorcycle about 2 months ago and just got my first jacket so i had to get some cool patches for it.lol. had to get dtt patch. dime city cycles patch. sparrows to take me home when im lost, and a kawasaki patch since i have a kz750. pics will be up tonight!
 
I've got 15 in the post headed my way right now, and i just got this one from Michael Woulfe today.
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They'll all be going on my blue TT Leathers if no one buys it before the other patches arrive.
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I've had all of mine sewn on by the local shoe repair shop. 3-5$ depending on size.
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The jacket is an old Hein Gericke.
 
I dont have a pic yet but some of my patches are sewn on (at a local saddle makers) but mostly I prefer to do it my self with glue and studs.

Firstly I glue the patch in place with rubber cement (comes in tins from Lowes) and then I press the stud in place where it is going to go. Then using the marks left by the pins I use a hammer and awl to make holes in the jacket and then press the stud in place and bend the pins over. Usually I have one pin through the patch and leather and one pin through the leather outside the edge of the patch so the stud holds the patch in place. I vary the number of studs depending on the size of the patch. I forgot to mention that I use a block of wood as well!
I'll try to get some pics up when I get home. (Away on business at the moment)
 
I finally got a few sewn onto some denim of mine.

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Still need to figure out what to do with the rest.. I think i went a bit overboard on the patches..

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Where are you guys getting the patches from? Any certain website? I want to get an old STP, Castrol, and NGK and maybe a few punk band patches for my jacket without getting from 4 different sites.
 
No offense, but isn't putting a "Rockers" patch on your jacket like wearing a T-Shirt that says "Punk"? Or putting "Cafe Racer" on your motorcycle (hopefully in either ugly Old English lettering or the Norton font)? It seems a little bit odd to me. It seems like if you are these things, you shouldn't need to explicitly spell it out.
 
Here's mine from Mike Woulfe leathers that I won from Barber's last year. It's by far my favorite jacket.

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