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Old Billingham bags never die …


dkCambridgeshire

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… they just need straps replacing after years of hard use:

 

 

 

The old strap is fairly easy to replicate from a piece of thick hide, cut / sliced using a scalpel and a steel straight edge.

 

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The thread holes were 'pricked' using a sharpened fruit fork and a hammer - and the fork survived !

 

 

 

My stitching will not win any awards but it's done the job. My steel hole punch was not of sufficient diameter for the larger two holes but sufficed by making a series of holes around the perimeter.

 

 

 

 

 

Billingham 445 now maybe good for another 10 years ? 

 

 

Photos taken with Leica Q 

 

 

Best wishes

 

dunk

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What a good bit of leather work! But you make me feel rather a philistine.....I was so irritated by the stiff and flapping straps on both my Billingham bags that I cut them off with scissors level with the bag flap,

that simple procedure made access to the bag much easier. Unfortunately the operation did leave behind the ugly silver fastenings and their attendant leather fixtures...oh well, nothing is perfect. 

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