New Stillwater weathered Lamont

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Nice look! I really like that tartan. It seems like there are not that many in brown tones. I think that I would go with brown accesories, but the black matches fine as well.

[GMan]

You want to know what I have to say? I like it!

[Oswulf]

Thanks guys.
cavscout, I have a plain black and plain brown Sam Browne belt coming, this one's just left over from my cop days a long time ago, back when they actually wore leather.

Gotta say I'm pretty impressed with Stillwater's wool kilts. I can't wait to see what new wool tartans they'll have to offer. Maybe we should bombard Jerry with requests for our favorite tartans. I'd like to see Stewart hunting and Cameron of Erracht.

[PiperBilly]

Just ordered mine yesterday - our pipe band is going to be on the news during our Sunday practice so I hope to have it tomorrow or Saturday. Finally going to have my clan kilt!

[possingk]

Just ordered mine yesterday - our pipe band is going to be on the news during our Sunday practice so I hope to have it tomorrow or Saturday. Finally going to have my clan kilt!

I hope you get it before Sunday too, I haven't seen a wool SWk yet.

[Iolaus]

I hope you get it before Sunday too, I haven't seen a wool SWk yet.

I like the wool of my SW Lamont much better than the fabric of their standard Nightstalker. Any opinion on what the weight is? All I have to compare to is the 2005 Nightstalker, which is pretty light.

[Oswulf]

Well. I'll go the opposite way here. My SW Black Watch heavyweight is rather heavier than the Lamont. Soooooo, somewhere in between. Jerry told me in an email that the Lamont was approx 13 oz wool. I guess he should know, but then he calls the Black Watch 16 oz and I personally think it's a bit heavier than that. What I have to go on is a 5 yard heavyweight 16 oz from scottishkilts.net from the Jura mill. The fabric of my Black Watch SW is definitely heavier than this cloth, while the fabric of my Lamont seems really close to the same as the Jura 16 oz. Without snipping off pieces of my kilts and whacking them on a scale that's about as close as I can estimate.

In some ways my SW Black Watch is my favorite kilt, the hang, the swing, the solid feel of it. My Jura 5 yarder is easily the best made and the cloth is really superb. My Sw Lamont I think has a superior cloth to the Black Watch but the "Tank" feeling just isn't there.

I'm keeping all of them though, and rotating them pretty fairly as well. My SW standard I like, but it's a stretch to hang it in the same closet as the others really, and it's the red headed stepchild as far as getting in the kilt rotation.

I really have to get myself a real "Tank" just to see if there's really $200 to $400 worth of difference between that and the **** kilts.

[ByDand]

Oswulf, That looks great. I am not usually a big fan of browns but that is really nice. I'll have to take another look at browns in tartans. You will be sure to get good compliments when out and about!

[bjcustard]

First, the pictures...



Fabric weight it great. Heavier that I expected... little more than my SWK Saffron. Great swing, nice weave. Easily as good a product as any of my other wool kilts (but not the worsted wool ones).

As far as the "irregular" part, I can see nothing that affects my opinion of the kilt. The tartan on the apron may be slightly off center, but not by very much... I think the under apron my be a little too long (aka visible), but it's easily fixed.

One note... what appeared to be "white" in the pics on the SWK site is definitely off-white on my kilt. Can't imagine that part of the "irregular" part... it's probably just my monitor. But FWIW, it's closer to grey/stone than it is to white.

All in all, a very big thumbs up.

[Robin]

Another!!!!!!

Way cool!