That's great! Glad you love it! I believe the bag wasn't released until 2018, because I bought mine pretty soon after they came out. Glad to know the video helped and didn't lead you astray.

Congrats! Great choices! They'll only look better and better. You should definitely do a video of some kind on the deep pocket duffle.

Thanks!

You should! Would love to see it!

You definitely should. What do you have?

@@chadbaker310 front pocket backpack in tobacco.

@@thecapone45 Go for it! I mean as you can tell I don't put almost any production into my videos, I just want to get it out there.

Yes I will! Probably around April again when it's been another year. At this point there isn't just a ton of change month to month, or even after 6 months. But I feel like yearly seems cool to be able to see a progression.

I know right? So weird.

Yes! Tobacco breaks in super nicely.

Yes they are! I believe these are the ones I got! They're still working great! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T9K5TPZ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=jamrobinson-20&linkId=0cd440e386c6e1d1a8ebcd3a712246ba&language=en_US&th=1

Thanks for watching! Haha yeah I've kind of committed myself to keep doing this.

I bet there's not a great way to do it. The only way I can think of would be to attach one clip of the strap to a bottom d ring on the back, run the strap through both handles at the top, and then attach to the other d ring at the bottom. There's only one shoulder pad though, so it wouldn't be super comfortable. And by running the strap through both handles, you probably wouldn't be able to easily open the bag while it's in backpack mode.

I rarely do! This bag has seen no conditioner yet. I try to wait until there is obvious dryness on the bag. When I do condition this bag I will either use Chamberlains or Bick 4.

May I ask why you condition so infrequently?

​@@briancole3456 I try to wait until there is obvious dryness on the bag. Rather than following a rule like "every six months" or something. I wait because I generally don't like messing with the way the bag naturally patinas. But I do want to keep the leather healthy. I let the bag tell me when it needs conditioning, and what parts need it. Conditioning reverses some patina and scratches and lots of the things that look beautiful to me on these bags when they're really broken in. Some people like to condition their bags because it sort of hits the "refresh" button and makes it look clean and newish. Nothing wrong with that, it's just the exact opposite of what I want haha.

I've been part of a few of the Saddleback Facebook groups for years. The main one is that Saddleback Leather Fan Group, but there's several where you can buy sell trade. I got this from someone who had bought two different colors right when the bag came out, and they only wanted to keep one, so they sold the other essentially unused.

​@@jamrbnThank you.

Haha thanks for doing that. The bag is pricier now but spreading the cost out like this is still really convincing imo.