quick fix Pakistani sporran
The pipe band I play in, like many, decided to go cheap and issue Pakistani sporrans.
Here's the one I was given, on the left.
As you see it's not horrible. It appears to be sturdily constructed from nice thick leather. The cantle is obviously a re-cast of a Scottish original.
Surprisingly the tabs have scribe-lines which many modern Scottish-made sporrans lack.
But as you see they put the targe far too low! As I looked around the band I saw that this varied from sporran to sporran, some nearly high enough to look acceptable, some as low as mine.
Happily the cantle is held by small hex-nuts, so I removed the cantle, punched 3 holes in the targe piece, trimmed the top, and reassembled the sporran (right).
Some people wouldn't care but for me it makes my band uniform more professional.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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