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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
About 18 months ago I wrote a blog post about straps I make for for the Oris Aquis range of dive watches. I thought it was about time I updated that post, but I also thought it would be useful to include some instructions on [...]
As I've mentioned when I've written about my travels sourcing leather for Toshi Straps in the past, many of the leathers that I offer on my store page are special run leathers, i.e. the tannery produces a limited quantity as a special order, and production [...]
I've decided to offer a discount on "Metta" calf for the entire month of August. This is a modern calf leather that has been produced to resemble the 18th century reindeer hide found on the wreck of the Metta Catherina when it was discovered in [...]
At the beginning of June I took a trip around the UK to find some new leathers for the site. This is something I do once a year, and as often happens I came home after spending far too much money, but with a [...]
