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, [...]
Well it's that time of year again. I've just returned from the last Post Office trip of 2017, and the final few straps of the year are now on the way to their new homes. To celebrate I've made myself a strong coffee and warmed [...]
My order book is now completely full for the rest of the year and so unfortunately it's too late to order a strap and expect it to be built and delivered to you before the holidays. Now I realise this is going to be bad [...]
After the last 7 days, during which it seemed that everyone who placed an order wants a Storm Grey strap for Christmas, I've been cutting leather today and realised there is now only enough left for a handful more straps. Obviously I wanted to let [...]
