Watch Strap Prototype

[cjmt]

Another one - not a prototype this time. This is 24mm wide oak bark tanned bridle leather with light brown lin cable made for a Panerai collector

Charlie

[WScott]

Nice clean look, excellent stitching

[cjmt]

Nice clean look, excellent stitching

Thank you :-)

[Basically Bob]

_{Looks really nice! Looking forward to seeing more of your work.}

[traiven3d]

Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing this. When doing this sort of work do you glue elements in place first and then complete the stitching, or is using glue a poor method of working?

[LNLeather]

WOW that's nice - beautiful work! Grrreat edges too!

[cjmt]

Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing this. When doing this sort of work do you glue elements in place first and then complete the stitching, or is using glue a poor method of working?

Theres no structural glue, all the elements are held together by the stitching, but the filling strip and other layers are glued in place to make sure they don't move whilst the straps are being stitched, to make sure they are lined up perfectly and to help give a good single edge to then sand/polish. Glue as a permanent bond is poor technique (to me) but glue used as a temporary bond is OK, you just have to not get it in the cut edges because it plays havoc with edge finishing.

HTH

Charlie

[knazim]

First of all thank you very much for posting your work and giving details. This is fantastic work - truly inspirational.

I was trying to see where and how you end the stitches and I could not figure that you. How do you do that?

Regards

KN

[WScott]

I have used double sided sticky tape as a method of holding top and bottom layers in place for stitching. I am such a slob with glue I always seem to get run out to spoil an edge or have to fiddle with position and get some on my thumb and then it's all over the show face....

Just a thought, it's a good secondary method for us glue spazzes

[cjmt]

WOW that's nice - beautiful work! Grrreat edges too!

Thanks, much appreciated!

First of all thank you very much for posting your work and giving details. This is fantastic work - truly inspirational.

I was trying to see where and how you end the stitches and I could not figure that you. How do you do that?

Regards

KN

Thank you also for the kind words! The straps are hand stitched so starting and finishing is easy, you just start or fininsh 1 1/2 stitches from the end so you have a small amount of overlap. The thread is pretty thin and if you're careful the double stitching is more or less invisible.

I have used double sided sticky tape as a method of holding top and bottom layers in place for stitching. I am such a slob with glue I always seem to get run out to spoil an edge or have to fiddle with position and get some on my thumb and then it's all over the show face....

Just a thought, it's a good secondary method for us glue spazzes

No reason this wouldnt work - interesting thought. In the case of these watch straps I tend to glue right up to the very edge so the edges are both glued and stitched, the object being no gape at all between them when you come to polish and seal the edges - makes it much easier to get a well finished edge.

Charlie