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Phaedros wrote: ↑March 1st, 2021, 9:00 am It arrived - Great to see you like it! And the packaging as well I have a thing for worn, old guitars as well, hence the name.

I was lucky enough to be able to study some leather wares from the ww2 era up close to determine stitching and threads and turned up to use thick linnen thread I coated in beeswax for this. The leather is originated a bit later, around ‘55 from the swiss army. It’s remarkably soft for the age.


The strap works really well with your submersible!

@insideo It wasn’t my first or second really, I made some more in the quiet of my shop and ruined a lot of leather in the process...

I am working on a very delicate strap for an omega watch right now and it‘s driving me nuts, because I already am at V5 now and screw up something each time I think I got it right.

@straps68 It really am grateful to work with your straps, so much care in the construction! This one, as per request, is mildly aged - I am doing a pictorial right now on the process...

Phaedros wrote: ↑March 10th, 2021, 11:51 am Thank you @Yoda ! I am relieved it finally arrived... what a ride! The first one was a prototype with all the quirks and difficulties associated. Some holes punched askew, or not at all, the padding not perfectly centered and so on. I really struggled to make the next one, because I couldn’t get the mistakes to disappear. Something always went wrong and so five whole sets went to the bin - until I made the one you got now. It’s incomparable what you feel, when you hold something you have made that is exactly what you wanted it to be.
There’s such a rich back story to this whole journey and I really thank you for all this! If you have some bits of leather to spare, I‘ll gladly take them, they will make special straps for sure.

Yoda wrote: ↑March 11th, 2021, 11:22 am The best thing is that this Seamaster 120 was dirt cheap, one of my three best deals ever.