Hi McRoss,

First off, welcome aboard!

If you could post a picture of the jacket it might give the DIY jacket converter-crowd more to go on.

One of the big issues is button-hole placement on the front of the jacket, as this will potentially affect the amount of sporran cut-away you can achieve.

If you do a search (box is in the upper right corner of the screen) for jacket conversions you'll pull up some very helpful threads.

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