It’s very, very good as a product, when you’re using it in the areas where it’s best used. Take, for instance, work gloves. When I’m cutting, splitting, and stacking wood, a pair of very cheap, badly made, stiff, pig skin gloves from Harbor Freight will last me a few weeks before the finger tips wear through. Cotton gloves will last less than a day. Synthetic work gloves with reinforced fingers typically last about a week. Nice goatskin work gloves last about as long as the pigskin gloves, but are more comfortable and cost more.
My “motorcycle” jeans–reinforced with para-aramid fabric–are completely shot, and useless for riding. My RevIt! leather riding jacket and pants–which I’ve crashed in four times now–are still in fantastic shape, and are the same age as the jeans.
It’s very, very good as a product, when you’re using it in the areas where it’s best used. Take, for instance, work gloves. When I’m cutting, splitting, and stacking wood, a pair of very cheap, badly made, stiff, pig skin gloves from Harbor Freight will last me a few weeks before the finger tips wear through. Cotton gloves will last less than a day. Synthetic work gloves with reinforced fingers typically last about a week. Nice goatskin work gloves last about as long as the pigskin gloves, but are more comfortable and cost more.
My “motorcycle” jeans–reinforced with para-aramid fabric–are completely shot, and useless for riding. My RevIt! leather riding jacket and pants–which I’ve crashed in four times now–are still in fantastic shape, and are the same age as the jeans.