substitute sporrans

[longforgan]

Hi, whilst I can appreciate the style and good taste of a traditional sporran, for my daily routine regular sporrans just don't fill the bill. I walk everywhere and so when I go out I take a lot of stuff with me. Maybe I am combining shopping with the walk and so there's a wallet with cash and credit cards etc. Then there's a can of dog-spray, (just love dogs but I have been bitten twice), there's sunglasses, maybe some photos to show the guys down at the pub, and on and on. I have recently been thinking of a digital camera case as a substitute sporran. One by Lowepro measures approximately the same size as a regular sporran but has useful compartments and zips on it. I took the plunge and bought what appears to be a leather mens shoulder purse.By cutting off the strap and replacing it with a back-mounted belt of nylon webbing it becomes a sporran. This thing is really at the "top-end" size-wise, it is 7" x 8". A large sporran may look good on the Great Hulk but on a wee guy like me it can look like I am slinging a briefcase up front of my kilt. I figure that I can "Celticize" this thing by perhaps adding a pewter crest or something. You experienced lads oot there are probably ahead of me on this already. Any more ideas? An' dinna tell me aboot backpacks, I carry one o' them tae! Thanks,- Longforgan

[longforgan]

Hi, whilst I can appreciate the style and good taste of a traditional sporran, for my daily routine regular sporrans just don't fill the bill. I walk everywhere and so when I go out I take a lot of stuff with me. Maybe I am combining shopping with the walk and so there's a wallet with cash and credit cards etc. Then there's a can of dog-spray, (just love dogs but I have been bitten twice), there's sunglasses, maybe some photos to show the guys down at the pub, and on and on. I have recently been thinking of a digital camera case as a substitute sporran. One by Lowepro measures approximately the same size as a regular sporran but has useful compartments and zips on it. I took the plunge and bought what appears to be a leather mens shoulder purse.By cutting off the strap and replacing it with a back-mounted belt of nylon webbing it becomes a sporran. This thing is really at the "top-end" size-wise, it is 7" x 8". A large sporran may look good on the Great Hulk but on a wee guy like me it can look like I am slinging a briefcase up front of my kilt. I figure that I can "Celticize" this thing by perhaps adding a pewter crest or something. You experienced lads oot there are probably ahead of me on this already. Any more ideas? An' dinna tell me aboot backpacks, I carry one o' them tae! Thanks,- Longforgan

[longforgan]

Hi, whilst I can appreciate the style and good taste of a traditional sporran, for my daily routine regular sporrans just don't fill the bill. I walk everywhere and so when I go out I take a lot of stuff with me. Maybe I am combining shopping with the walk and so there's a wallet with cash and credit cards etc. Then there's a can of dog-spray, (just love dogs but I have been bitten twice), there's sunglasses, maybe some photos to show the guys down at the pub, and on and on. I have recently been thinking of a digital camera case as a substitute sporran. One by Lowepro measures approximately the same size as a regular sporran but has useful compartments and zips on it. I took the plunge and bought what appears to be a leather mens shoulder purse.By cutting off the strap and replacing it with a back-mounted belt of nylon webbing it becomes a sporran. This thing is really at the "top-end" size-wise, it is 7" x 8". A large sporran may look good on the Great Hulk but on a wee guy like me it can look like I am slinging a briefcase up front of my kilt. I figure that I can "Celticize" this thing by perhaps adding a pewter crest or something. You experienced lads oot there are probably ahead of me on this already. Any more ideas? An' dinna tell me aboot backpacks, I carry one o' them tae! Thanks,- Longforgan

[Colin]

Have you checked out the fine sporrans that are made by out own Freelander (Sporrano). The price is out standing, and the sporrans look really cool. Plus other members seem to just love the Sporrans they have gotten from David and Sten.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2251

[Colin]

Have you checked out the fine sporrans that are made by out own Freelander (Sporrano). The price is out standing, and the sporrans look really cool. Plus other members seem to just love the Sporrans they have gotten from David and Sten.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2251

[Colin]

Have you checked out the fine sporrans that are made by out own Freelander (Sporrano). The price is out standing, and the sporrans look really cool. Plus other members seem to just love the Sporrans they have gotten from David and Sten.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2251

[Blu (Ontario)]

Some of the guys here just wear "bum bags". I've done it myself a couple of times. Holds alot more and best of all they're cheap.

[Blu (Ontario)]

Some of the guys here just wear "bum bags". I've done it myself a couple of times. Holds alot more and best of all they're cheap.

[Blu (Ontario)]

Some of the guys here just wear "bum bags". I've done it myself a couple of times. Holds alot more and best of all they're cheap.

[Graham]

I admit to being a casual bum bag wearer, they are very practical.

If I'm hiking and need to carry more gear I use a small day pack (backpack.

I hang things off my belt where I can (knife, mobile phone).

I'm like you, there is certain "stuff" I must have before I go out (knife, phone, Palm, reading glasses, money purse) no sporran can take all that without being too bulky (and painful to wear )