Horween Nut Brown was launched last month along with 7 other new leathers, and as soon as I could find some time I just had to get to work on a strap from it for myself - and specifically for my "87". I really couldn't [...]
Military Grey leather, plus another seven new leathers, have just gone live in the store. Over the last month I've been working hard to get the eight new leathers I bought at the beginning of the month ready to launch. Adding a new [...]
Horween Nut Brown is one of the eight new leathers I bought on my trip at the beginning of the month, and will be available tomorrow. I've completely fallen in love with this leather, and so thought I'd write this quick blog post to give [...]
Dark Kudu has been a very popular leather over the last 12 months, but I need to let everyone know that it's quickly running out and I can't find any more! Recently I posted here about a trip I took to visit various leather wholesalers [...]
This week I took a few days off strap-making to go shopping for leather. For the last few days I've been away from north Devon traveling around on my annual pilgrimage to various tanneries and leather wholesalers to see what they have that grabs my [...]
Often when a new strap is received the owner is thoughtful enough to take a photograph or two when it is fitted and send them through to me. I know I always say I enjoy seeing the strap finally mounted and being worn, [...]
Many of the leathers I use when making watch straps are full grain, vegetable tanned leathers. Full grain leathers are my preference to work with because they have the best structure for a watch strap, and also because a watch strap made from a full [...]
My Anonimo Militare is one of the very first dive watches I ever bought, and it still gets more wrist time than most of my other watches. I've been wearing it on a Mushroom leather strap for the last 12 months or so, but I [...]
So, I've finally got around to adding some of the photos customers have sent in recently to the gallery and made the first major update this year. I would love to find a way to do this more frequently, but there never seems to [...]
Typhoon leather is one of a dozen or so leathers I introduced last summer after my annual road trip, and it's become very popular over the last 6 months (and getting rave reviews from those of you who have ordered a strap made from it, [...]
