Made myself a modified sporran strap

[ardchoille]

For the longest time I've had just a plain old sporran strap. This type of strap serves its purpose but it's a bit clumsy if one needs to simply unhook/switch sporrans because you have to unbuckle the strap at your back and pull it through the kilt belt loops and the sporran loops. Well, no more!

I saw many of the rabble who have a modified sporran strap that has trigger snaps that attach to the sporran, so unhooking/switching a sporran is much easier. Today I took that idea to the Tandy Leather store near me and bought some rivets, a hole punch, and an anvil. The salesman was nice enough to demonstrate how to apply the rivets and I headed home. After I arrived home I cut the leather strap, punched the holes and applied the rivets - took all of ten minutes.

Here is what I ended up with:


And here's how it looks on me:


The normal sporran strap cost me $15.00 and the tools from Tandy cost me $20.00. I look good, my sporran is now easier to unhook/switch, and most importantly, I'm a happy camper! Now that I have a bag of rivets, I plan to do this with all of my normal sporran straps. Hmm.. I might even fix that off-center pendant on the sporran

[12stones]

Very nice. I'm in the process of finishing a regular forum strap and just riveted the buckle on. I have to apply the leather finish tomorrow and I should be done. I've spent too much money at Tandy this past week. *sigh*

[Panache]

You will find that for $20 the leather punch, rivet tools, and such are quite handy to have about.

A good investment for future projects and repairs.

Cheers

Jamie

[ardchoille]

Very nice. I'm in the process of finishing a regular forum strap and just riveted the buckle on. I have to apply the leather finish tomorrow and I should be done. I've spent too much money at Tandy this past week. *sigh*

Tell me about it. I was having a severe case of jonesing while I was in there.

You will find that for $20 the leather punch, rivet tools, and such are quite handy to have about.

A good investment for future projects and repairs.

Too true, and I already have more ideas. They carry 3/4 inch wide leather (perfect for sporran straps) for $14.00, enough to make two sporran straps.

[Standard]

Very nice, and it won't rub like a chain sporran strap would. I have fairly nice leather working set that my father put together, mostly from Tandy, and it sure comes in handy.