A backpack that can be used for at least 20 years: loyal Stricklin.

I bought this bag at the beginning of 18 and still use it frequently. It is used to hold camera lenses and other various items. I bought it for more than two years. Update the aging effect here ~

This article is a bit long. Let's put a directory first:

Let's start.

About four years ago, I first saw the shoulder bag produced by Stricklin, a loyal brand, in the post bar. I have never seen a backpack with such good quality and high value before, and it was instantly poisoned.

However, due to the high price in 750 yuan, it has not been started. In order to detoxify, substitutes were made in the middle, and this design that can be rolled up was also adopted. Later, I gradually learned that this design is called "roll top", and several brands have done it, but it seems that the loyal Stricklin is the best.

How time flies! Two years have passed in a blink of an eye. I've been filling in retro pits for years. Since Red Wing 90 16, clothes and shoes have become more and more expensive, but backpacks are still using substitutes. Not long ago, I saw this bag again on the Internet and found myself thinking about the loyal Stricklin. After all, substitutes are always substitutes. So, this time, I feel that "one step is the most economical" and I placed an order directly with Haitao.

When I placed an order, the loyal Stricklin brand was still relatively small, but after these years, its popularity has improved a lot. If nothing else, just look at the pile of imitations on a treasure . . But as usual, let's introduce the brand first.

Loyalty Stricklin is an American handmade leather brand. The manager is a couple. They founded this brand in their own name, which should not be long (the first FB was in 14). The leather workshop is located in an historic town in Alabama (later moved to Nashville). Their vision is to help the world save some resources by making durable products.

The picture above shows the physical store before they moved. This brand has a great attitude and will donate a certain percentage of its profits to charity projects and publicize it on its own website.

Here is a brief introduction to this bag. The bag body is made of ——Chromexcel (hereinafter referred to as CXL), which is a kind of high-density and high-brightness leather produced by the world-famous Horween Leather Factory.

This kind of leather is rich in oil and looks shiny. With the use, it will form mottled folds in places that are often bent, showing a unique aging effect. After aging, the gloss is improved, which is sought after by countless leather lovers and retro lovers.

In recent years, there are more and more domestic businesses that use CXL to make things, and there are countless bags of shoes, which will inevitably cause us an aesthetic fatigue. But as far as leather is concerned, CXL has not been tanned except for its poor tensile strength, which is much better than some unknown European leather. If some merchants deliberately belittle CXL in order to sell your unfamiliar skin, you should be careful ~ most of them are profit-driven. After all, the price of CXL is transparent and the profit margin is limited, but the profit margin of imported skin with unknown sources is hard to say. .

The above picture shows an aviation horse skin CXL leather coat found online, which shows the unique aging effect of this leather.

There is a little too much written in front, and someone may urge you to "cut the crap and open the box quickly!" " So let's unpack, and more information about the bag will be written in the unpacking link ~

As the order was placed at the end of 18 1, it was the end of the year, so the transshipment and customs clearance were particularly slow, and it took almost two months to arrive.

I received a big box, and the data on the transshipment side was 2.96kg. Later, I roughly weighed it, and the bag weighed about 4. 1 kg.

Open it quickly. There is this bag in it. Without cushions like airbags, it is not easy to stumble on the ocean. .

Tear open the plastic bag and take it out. The strap is not installed, it is very straight. You can see that there is obvious loose surface in the lower right corner, but it is not a problem for CXL's skin. This part is on the back and has little effect.

Because of the lack of indoor light, let's get it under outdoor natural light, so that we can see the texture ~ there are a few growth lines on the front, but the overall impression is not bad.

As mentioned earlier, this bag is designed with roll top, so the leather on it is rolled up.

To open it, you need to pull the front strap out of the copper buckle and then lay the curled leather flat.

This design makes the opening and closing of the backpack very troublesome, but it also brings an excellent advantage-200% safety. If you want to steal the contents, it is estimated that you have to cut the skin with a sharp weapon, but this skin is very thick, and it is estimated that you will kill the thief before you cut it halfway.

It is worth noting that this bag has no interlayer, but it is a large piece inside, so it is better to get an inner bag or something to match it. I wrapped Buckingham Hadley's inner container very small, just the right size, and it was very easy to put the camera lens.

The mobile phone took two photos casually as a display.

Turn to the back. The structure of this bag determines that it is wasteful. Because the front and back are not spliced, we should sew up two pieces of cowhide, then sew up two big pockets and add a layer of leather in front. Generally speaking, you must choose the part with good density and good impression on the front, and the back is almost the same. But even so, it is quite useless.

Put it on the chair. This cortical CXL is very common in work shoes. Work shoes, such as Viberg and White's boots, all use CXL to make shoes. I own five pairs of CXL shoes, so I am quite familiar with the characteristics of this leather. So, when you see this CXL bag, you will feel deja vu.

Generally speaking, however, it is enough to make a pair of boots with 4-5 feet of leather. This kind of big bag is estimated to have at least 12 feet of leather. Therefore, the impact of this large-area cortex with full texture is still very strong ~

CXL has a special leather smell and an abnormal oil content, so it looks shiny.

Let's look at the details:

Brand logo:

The handle and strap at the top are made of leather and fixed with thick copper nails, which are very strong.

From the inside, it looks like this:

By the way, take a look at the meat side of CXL leather:

The central restraining strap that controls opening and closing is also fixed in the same way.

Let's look at the copper buckle that controls the opening and closing. It is very thick.

The shoulder strap is also the same hardware, and the texture is quite good.

The joint of the shoulder strap is also fixed with various copper nails.

Although the whole bag is made of CXL, the shoulder strap and front strap are made of reins. This kind of reins should be familiar to everyone. This kind of leather is used in harness, which is very tensile and durable. It is estimated that the faithful Stricklin pursues higher durability, so this leather is used on the strap. If the tape is also made of CXL material, it will definitely stretch after a long time, because the tensile strength of CXL is not so good.

This kind of thick and dense reins should be difficult to wear out ~

The bottom of the backpack is wrapped in a large piece of CXL leather.

There are stitches at the bottom. Judging from the stitches, it must be sewn by machine. After all, sewing such a big bag by hand will definitely kill you. However, domestic players prefer hand sewing and feel that hand sewing is more advanced. But the cost of manual sewing is also high, and now labor is more and more expensive. For this kind of big bag, there is no need to pursue hand sewing. As long as the tools are complete, the effect of machine sewing is also quite good.

Next, post a few more overall pictures, which may be more artistic ~

This color goes well with a horse's short face

In short, this is a backpack with strong enough materials and high enough value (for me, everyone's aesthetic is different, and I prefer something with retro style). In addition to wine red, this bag has other colors to choose from, and I feel that each one looks good.

Honey color

Whiskey color

Take some pictures of my upper body. Wine red is coquettish, but it's not that difficult to match.

Front view of shoulder strap:

This bag can be matched with many clothes, so you can cut it as you want. . .

In addition, it can also be used as a background cloth for posing still life products, which is easy to produce results:

Up to now, more than two years have passed. I take it with me in Wuhan, where the temperature is 40 degrees in midsummer, and in Norway, where the temperature is below zero in winter. It is said that good things can stand the test of time, so let's take a look at the aging effect now:

I don't cherish it when I usually recite it. . . Scratches and bumps are allowed, so various injuries on the leather surface are more obvious.

The skins on both sides of the scroll have also been worn out.

The LOGO looks ok.

The bottom is also the hardest hit by wear, and all four corners have faded.

So much for the old part. Loyal stricklin promised a lifetime warranty, so I'm going to use it for retirement, at least for another 20 years.

If you spend more, you are used to careful calculation. Things you have played always like to analyze its cost silently (this is definitely the most annoying thing for businesses, but players always enjoy it).

Because the materials of this bag are fierce and the price is high, the price in official website reaches 750 dollars. Many people may think it's expensive, but I'll make a brief analysis here, and maybe everyone will find it worthwhile after reading it:

Material cost: Considering the utilization rate, it takes about 10 square foot of cowhide (1 square foot =9.3 square decimeter) to make such a large leather bag with two shoulders. The burgundy style is made of Chromexcel from Holven. The wholesale price of this leather is 7~ 10 USD a foot, and the transportation cost of accessories, hardware and raw materials is almost 150~ 180 USD. Labor cost: sewing such a bag is much more labor than ordinary backpacks, so it goes without saying that the manpower in the United States is very expensive.

Operating costs: site rent, utilities, equipment depreciation, inventory costs, various taxes and fees, official website construction and maintenance, etc. Furthermore, there is the cost of design and printing; The photos are beautiful, and there is the cost of taking photos (they are responsible for modeling themselves, which is estimated to save some money), and finally there is a profit rate of 30% (random estimation), and they will also donate some of the profits to charity projects. From this perspective, the price of $750 is not so exaggerated.

After this chop, I don't think I will buy a backpack again. This bag should last me a long time.

Sigh here: many pits, as long as you enter, you can't help but spend more money. Because when you know more and more, the requirements for things will naturally become higher and higher, and finally you will invest more and more.

Of course, there is always a limit to fever/pit filling. Finally, everyone will do what they can, and I believe everyone who reads this article will do the same. But whatever you play, the process is very important. In the process of filling the pit, you can know a lot of hobbies and learn a lot of information that only people in the industry can know. This is actually quite interesting.

-Sigh over

I accidentally coded a lot of words this time, so it's not easy to see anything here.