MoD brass cantle re-bagging

[OC Richard]

Wow that's gorgeous.

It's amazing how the subtle and elegant border decoration lifts the look of the whole sporran several notches.

Now I'm inspired to try that. I've got my pinking shears and I've done one pinked cantle gasket-liner (cutting the curve was much easier than I had imagined) and now I need to punch the holes. What a difference it makes!

BTW aren't there usually five poppers on the cantle? Does that vary from model to model?

[Troglodyte]

BTW aren't there usually five poppers on the cantle? Does that vary from model to model?

The Mk1 MoD cantle has five bag-mounting bosses and a leaf-spring for the clasp, with a pull-up release action . The later ones have four bosses and a push-down release action, with the spring housed around the clasp shaft in a cylinder.

A five-boss bag will fit onto a four-boss cantle, as the shape and dimensions seem to be identical, but a four-boss bag would need to have an additional hole punched in order to make it fit properly.

Ideally, it would be best to match the bag to the cantle - but if you know which version you have, making a bag to fit is straight-forward and easy even when the cantle is not present for fitting.

My pictures show the two versions I have - the five-boss version is a bag I made and used circlips on the bosses; the four-boss is a bag I commision Margaret Morrison to make, showing their replacement snap-fasteners.

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