I am impressed. Working with leather is a specialized job, one needs the tools and experience to make something looking professional. The video convinced me that having neither, I'm better off buying a new bracelet and modifying the part that attaches to the watch (the system is proprietary to the brand, nothing on the open market like it). Thank you and again, I'm impressed.
Amazing. I have a big watch collection and just got into swapping the straps around. I was about to start buying a bunch of new straps, but as an artist thought.. this can’t be too hard to make. Came across your video and now I’ll be buying tools instead! Absolutely thrilled!
Do you have a video showing how to make these exact same straps, but where you would normally skive the two ends for the spring bar, the leather is actually a continuous mirror image piece that is folded over to make the spring bar hole. Not sure if that style of end would be superior, but seems like it would be a bit stronger of an end and maybe easier to make.
Also do you happen to have a list of the tools you have in this video? Glues that you found are the best and edge paints and leather suppliers you prefer? If you have a video of that it’d be amazing as well!
Since leather is prone to stretching, you may need to reinforce the loops with a non-stretch material. Especially when those loops are rather narrow, like in this case.
overkill. the thickness, the padding, thick stitch, edge paints. that thing is not going to stretchy in any meaningful way and its already overly thick imo.
Thank you 😊 The goat skin that I used is a vegetable tanned leather but I have found that the edge paint gives me a better finish than the staining and burnishing method I usually use on vegetable tanned leathers.
I set the single loop far enough back that there was no need to add a running loop. As this was custom made to the required size I knew where the end of the strap would sit when done up, if it was not then I would add a running loop.
