I've not heard of it but would be interested to know if it works too. I have to sew the patches on MrNickwiz's jacket using leather needles and a steel thimble and hate doing it cause it's a b*****d of a job!

 

I had a sew shop sew mine on...$5.00 per patch...13 patches...$65.00...got it back in two days...

 

Badges hey! There used to be a time when you'd have to sew yer own badges, on yer own leather jacket. when I was a young Rocker, before we even had bikes - My mum used to say to me "Put yer own badges on yer own Jacket, yer little git." and throw me the means to do so, I learnt the old fashioned way. Guess she thought she was preparing me for life. But now with all that latent Needle work pent up, in this tawdry husk I call my body, I feel a malevolent glaze ascending - at the thought of grown men unable to put Needle and Thread.... and a thimble to good use. My, what has the world come to when we are forced down to the 'Sew shop', that's Up the road.... my dog, what has the world come to? Are we all not all Men..... $65 for 13 badges.... for crying out loud - what has the world come to?

 

trypcil , You have got be English or from the UK. My mum said the same thing.
Still a Rocker

Steve

 

Its called...I did enough sewing of my own patches when I was young and was in the service...and I make enough coin to have someone else do it for me...helping local business in a poor economy...etc...

one patch...one hour for me to sew on = 13 hours...and I get paid more than $5.00 an hour...and thats 13 hours I could be riding...or doing something productive

$5.00 to have a shirt dry cleaned you wear it once...$5.00 for a sew shop to sew a patch it last forever...

 

stickum

Don't think I'd use any kind of adhesive...if the patch ever comes off it will take the top layer of leather skin with it...
Sewing would be the best way and having it done by experts would be the way i'd go....it takes a heavy duty commercial machine to do it correctly.

 

Tie your economics are spot on. no arguing with that. But when I was a young Rocker that was good beer money going to waste lol.

Steve

 

When I was younger we crashed parties and stole beer...

 

Where I come from the Parties did not start until the pubs shut. We had to have beer money for 5 hours between the pub opening and party starting. Crashing the parties was fun but usually the fight started before you could get more that a couple of pints down your neck. Great days (I think) lol

Steve