Watch Strap

[Professor]

On 10/24/2019 at 8:45 AM, Mattsbagger said:

A friend wants me to make a strap for his wife’s watch as she keeps breaking the buckle at the pins. It’s a 10mm buckle and 12mm at the watch. How thin does the leather need to be? And can I use a 3/8 buckle? Basically a tiny belt buckle? Yours looks nice. Interesting with just the 1 hole.

You should look on EBay for some of the cheap watch bands. the material of the band is usually weak PU leather/plastic mix or even nylon strapping but the buckles are most often high grade. A cheap band costing a dollar or less can have a buckle you'd pay several times that amount for if bought anywhere else.

I'm planing on using a couple of buckles salvaged from this sort of band to make fancy straps for a buscadero type holster.

As a plus the nylon straps have matching plated metal keepers.