Silver plated MOD cantle with white leather formal bag.

[Harold Cannon]

Here is my new bag for my silver plated MOD cantle.

[ShaunMaxwell]

Very nice, Harold!

[Llama]

That's gorgeous!

[celt72]

I love the simple elegance of it Harold. Well done!

[Downunder Kilt]

Very nice Harold, a very fitting colour for the formal occasions. One suggestion, have you tried a collar (for want of a better word) just peeking out from under the cantle. You see them of most formal fur sporrans that have a metal cantle and are usually pinked on the exposed side

[artificer]

Very nice Harold, a very fitting colour for the formal occasions. One suggestion, have you tried a collar (for want of a better word) just peeking out from under the cantle. You see them of most formal fur sporrans that have a metal cantle and are usually pinked on the exposed side

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It looks really sharp, Harold. I'm with Downunder Kilt here, a pinked liner might be the ticket for a little extra pop.

BTW I really like the silvered bead you used to cinch the tassels, Good call.

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[Tobus]

Very nicely done! Would you wear this with a white sporran belt too, in the military style, or a chain?

As for the pinked liner behind the cantle, I considered doing something similar on one of the bags I'm building for my MoD cantle, but this seems to be a bit problematic. The snaps that attach to the studs on the inside of the cantle will only allow so much thickness of material before they simply won't stay snapped in place. If I use a leather that's too thick, the snaps want to pop off. And the problem would be compounded when using an additional layer of material (presumably felt) between the leather and the cantle. I'd be curious to know if anyone has successfully done such a liner on this type of cantle, and if so, how they made it work with the snaps.

And on the same subject of the studs/snaps, it also seems that they placed the studs so close to the inside edge of the cantle that when you stitch the snaps to the leather, some of the stitching is exposed (which is why I considered doing a liner in the first place). The only way I've gotten around it so far is to just avoid stitching the snaps all the way around the hole. Where they would be exposed, I just leave the stitching out. Not exactly an ideal solution, but it should work OK since most of the load-bearing capacity of the sporran body comes from the gussets hanging by the 'knobs' at the hinge point. Anybody else had this problem with the snap stitches?