It was a wet Friday evening in Los Gatos.

The day's showers had subsided to an occasional drizzle and the bright lights of the downtown beckoned. Visiting mkmound was joined at the Willow Street Pizza and Grill by The F-H.C.A.G. , way2fractious, Alan H. , and yours truly. Sadly TimC and the lovely Damaris were unable to join us and they, as well as our other Nor Cal kilties, were in our thoughts. We decided to struggle on in spite of these absences. So began an evening of good food, drink, kilts, conversation and laughter.



mkmound, The F-H.C.A.G. and Alan H. waiting for a table




This was our best Hamish




This was simply Dreadful




After dinnner it was time for some serious kilt talk. As the restaurant didn't have the table space we headed over to the Tollhouse Hotel where mkmound was staying and comandeered the lobby. Alan was sporting his newly made box pleat kilt in the California Tartan. Don't adjust your monitior it is much darker than the version Sportkilt sells. way2fractious has been studying two older military kilts to learn how to make military box pleats. Ladies and Gentlemen I am pleased to say he has cracked the code! The military box pleats are really sharp looking. I am very fortunate that w2f has agreed to make me my X Marks the Scot tartan kilt in this style. I had also agreed to to do some knife making for w2f in exchange for an actual Scottish made handsewn kilt he had bought on EBay and repaired. I am now the proud owner of an actual "Tank" in the Black Watch tartan.


Alan H. and his box pleats





way2fractious and his military box pleats




Panache regarding the elk horn that will be turned into a dirk handle for w2f



To be continued...