 wax canvas bags are next to leather bags which are next to boots in heaven. I have a few messenger and satchel bags but in this case I've come closer to home in fact just down the road. Keep watching and I'll tell you about this bag. G'day how you going? Welcome back to bootlossophy and if you haven't been here before my name is Tech. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands that I live and work on here in Perth, Western Australia, the Wajik people of the Greater Nungar Nation. Now I don't know why but boot collectors like bags. I suppose it's the heritage world that boots represent and therefore the kind of heritage bags that we also get into. Now I have reviewed bags before but they've all been from the Indonesian bag maker Kravah and you can see one of them up there. I have a number of bags so I'll probably start to bring them to you to show you the types of bags that I like that actually go with the boots that I have but in this case this is the Jack Stillman wax canvas messenger bag and I thought I'd borrow a leaf out of Jim Crane's channel that's James Crane go check him out and I'm going to do a close-up review of this bag so that you can actually see the features. So this is the Jack Stillman waxed canvas messenger bag. This is the old version it's about I think six years old and has since been improved with some different changes that I'll tell you about. Basically the same bag just a couple of new additions to improve it. I'm always confused by the way whether something is a satchel bag or a messenger bag but we'll ignore my ignorance and carry on. Jim Crane might be able to tell me. Now Jack Stillman is the local maker of waxed gear bags and bed rolls that sort of thing. I do believe he's a bit of a motorcycle head so some of the features in this bag and on his other products suit riding on motorcycles. For example there is this pass-through that you can attach to your panniers I think. I have no idea how. I don't own a motorcycle and I think the only kind of two-wheeled motorized transport I had was a little 50cc scooter so don't ask me to look rugged in this. The company Jack Stillman started in 2014 and firstly started selling via Facebook ads which is where I saw this. I'll leave a link to the website below. Now they use a waxed canvas that's really quite sturdy as you can see. Not heavily waxed it's quite light but it is definitely waterproof or at least shower proof. They use some real brass hardware that has also been improved on since and the leather used is VEGTAN leather. So let me go through the bag and describe it. Now this bag is full of my stuff so I wanted it full so that you could see what I'm carrying in it but let's go through the outside of the bag. So you have a standard flap over with reinforced by these leather straps that do go down into the lower seams front and back but in the back they only stop at the at where the flap comes over and they are affixed by these sort of S-shaped hooks which are a bit of a problem because if you put too much into them and being a soft bag is quite expandable it's not that easy to sort of pull everything over and clip it on. Not impossible but it's it's never easy it's so you kind of have to pull everything and then and then sort of slip it on. On both sides little bottle pockets and when I say little I mean little because not a not a big bottle fits into there I actually use it as in this case to keep my glasses in there just in case I need to reach my glasses very quickly and as you can see they're not easy to get out because the pockets quite small. The new bags have bigger pockets and they also have in this leather reinforcement patch here a little drain hole in case your water leaks I suppose. I should say by the way that the new bags also have proper buckles so you can actually buckle the strap through which is which is far more practical. Around the back you have a pass through so that you can put this onto your roller luggage and then you have these pannier straps. The shoulder strap is also made of a very soft canvas or I'm not sure that's canvas I suppose that's more like cotton drill with this veg tan leather surfaced but padded shoulder strap shoulder pad they are affixed to the bag using the same sort of S hooks as on the front and again that used to slip off so easily. I actually had to get my cobbler to close a stitch there so that you couldn't easily pull it out. Often when this was on a plane I grab the strap and pull and the other side we just pull off again not practical again this has been improved with proper buckles and D-rings so the new version is much more practical. Inside the bag let's open this out now first off is this extremely colorful lining with the Jack Stillman patch this I believe in that the new version is now a red water resistant lining very similar to the crava lining by the way. Let's just leave that for the moment there are two big patch pockets out of the front now I find these very useful they're gusseted so that they actually expand a little bit and I shove things like sunglasses little selfie stick pen rolls into the front where I can get to them. On the inside there are two compartments in the main compartment there is the main compartment which as you can see is actually reasonably roomy it has a couple of pockets in there of different sizes and then it has a zip pocket so that you can put things in that you don't want to lose in the inside of the bag and because the lining is actually quite loose I find these inside pockets very easy to lose things in. At the back there is a padded section with this elastic Velcro strip for you to put your laptop in there I don't really need this padded laptop carrier but I put it there anyway because I always take it wherever my laptop goes this is already padded front and back the closure is by zip so you know if you wanted to you could zip it up and nothing falls out but for what I carry often more than not I leave it unzip because I do sort of shove things in there and if it was zipped the expandability is limited so all in all it's a reasonably good sized messenger bag satchel with reasonably good pockets in and out my criticisms of this old model is the hardware not very practical and this floppy lining which makes you lose things on the inside the look though I think is extremely attractive the canvas used is quite a quite a high weight canvas and is so it's quite protective I haven't rewax it at all so you can see the patina has been developing in the last five or six years as the wax cracks and so on the veg 10 leather is soft and is patina ing patina ing is that a word patina ing really nicely so there you go go check out Jack stillman on the website I think you find that the new version of this bag is a lot more practical and if I didn't have this I'd probably buy the new version so I hope you like this video this is a different video this is James Crane style and I mentioned James because he reviews bags and if you ever want to know anything or bags go and check out James Crane's channel you won't miss so I hope you like this video in this different style click on like if you like click on like if you like and I hope you like but definitely click on subscribe because I'd love to see you back here in this channel so until the next time please take care and I'll see you soon