please help with sporran material decisions

[bismish]

I see your post and am adding a photo of a sporran from member Benning Boy. The side posts do stick out further than the cantle edge and (in this case) pass through the leather. Other cantles do not have the posts (maybe they are cut off) and the leather is attached with a rivet, or bunched up at the contact point.

Are you talking about the posts on the inside of the cantle? There are methods to deal with those to decrease damage to the leather and hands of the owner. A common solution is nip the posts shorter and make a new bend to attach the sporran body. I hope any of this helps.

Hi Tarheel

Thanks so much for the photo and explanation you sent - if only the pins I am talking about were so decorative. My photo didn't load - if you imagine the cantle being 6" long, and 2 inches high (the front face - an arc) and about .5 inch wide (the top edge of the metal bends at 90o to form a bit I would call a rim, I guess - it is the very top shiny edge, and points back towards the fella's belly at 90o to the front of the sporran). The screws are on the "wrong" side of the cantle face and poke out beyond the edge - they have bolts on the end so are clearly for fixing the leather to the cantle but its beyond me why they stick out so far, I have looked at dozens of photos and can't figure out what's going on...

I am going to the city next week and will find a kilt shop and plead my case for a squizz at their sporrans - hopefully I will get some idea of construction. I imagine that the commercial sporrans would have similar parts.

I'll keep you posted as I find out more... , once again, I am blown away by the generosity of you and others on this site

cheers