Episode Transcript: #1443 - Jonathan Ward
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One Jonathan you're the first man ever not only the first man I've ever met who made his own leather jacket
Absolutely the first man who made his own leather jacket has ever been on the podcast wearing that jacket. Well, I thank you so much
I fucking sweet jacket man. I'd show you my G string, but it's probably a little much for this time of day
Well, how are you functioning? I use it like on the side. How you tying that one?
Well, I like I prefer a center rear yank
So does my wife because it's you can just put the leash right on it and you know two for one keeps her
When did you get into making leather stuff? Is that a recent thing?
About three years ago, but I mean Joe my whole life
I've just been a rampant fan of
Craftsmanship and I've done various deep dives throughout my life into like all sorts of different art forms. In fact the reason
Automotive design became my thing and turned into a business was because my hobbies of
painting and sculpting and
Finish carpentry would work and all these different things if you think about a transportation is like this incredibly communicable
extroverted combination of so many different art forms. Yeah, so
I've been also as in my travels in the last ten years or so or maybe five
I've really been focusing on
Always have been focusing on like getting immersed in that local culture
But now I've stepped that up a notch and I'm doing like these deep dive travels into
different art forms of different cultures so
Leathercraft have been visiting tanneries and studying from masters in the US and in