Wah hoo, thanks everybody - we have Tandy in the uk too, yippee! Though if I decide not to go for one of those awesome swivel clasps, I will probably make a pin closure using a big old flat handmade nail I have in my shed...
Will update when decision is made.
If you atīre thinking of a nail, why not use a hobnail?
Originally Posted by Pleater
Weeelll - once I was walking along the row of shops near us and passed a young couple, she was wearing a narrow strip of denim for a skirt and a couple of handkerchieves worth of fabric for a blouse and it was losing the fight to stay closed - I was almost out of earshot when he enquired 'why doesn't your skirt move like that?' Anne the Pleater
What's the loop thingy called that the pin drops into?
eye? eyelet?
Originally Posted by Pleater
Weeelll - once I was walking along the row of shops near us and passed a young couple, she was wearing a narrow strip of denim for a skirt and a couple of handkerchieves worth of fabric for a blouse and it was losing the fight to stay closed - I was almost out of earshot when he enquired 'why doesn't your skirt move like that?' Anne the Pleater
Mostly 'cos I don't have a hobnail... I have a single big old flat handsome handmade nail! LOL
A handmade nail isn't bad at all. It should come close to a hobnail.
But you could sneak into a blacksmith workshop and ...
Originally Posted by Pleater
Weeelll - once I was walking along the row of shops near us and passed a young couple, she was wearing a narrow strip of denim for a skirt and a couple of handkerchieves worth of fabric for a blouse and it was losing the fight to stay closed - I was almost out of earshot when he enquired 'why doesn't your skirt move like that?' Anne the Pleater
Thank you for bringing up the subject. I had a sporran with a snap closure that was always a struggle to close. In my kitchen I found a small round magnet the perfect size to fit within the snap. With a dab of glue, my problem was solved.
Thanks to you knuckle heads I now have a bug to try my hand at making a sporran myself, looks like its back to Tandy ....
A year or so ago I happened by a tandy's near my home and that was one of my first projects. It had been 20 years since I worked leather but making a sporran seemed like something I had to do. I just finished a second reversible sporran and put up pictures on the DIY showroom. It isn't perfect but I liked it.
I had exactly the same problem with a similar day sporran. I bought some magnetic purse snap closures from an Ebay vendor for a couple of bucks. It was pretty easy with a sharp knife to get in and replace the original snaps and then epoxy everything back in place. Now the sporran closes very easily with one hand.
Originally Posted by Kinetikat
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