Equus Leather - Bridle Leather Belts - Official Affiliate Thread - Page 15

Thank you, I'm really glad you like them. Each belt is special as is each customer and we make each one with that in mind. Hopefully the end result is things people love and derive pleasure from owning - certainly thats what I intend when I'm designing or making.

One small note - both the Bakers and Sedgwick leather is bridle leather - the Bakers tanning process is different (oak bark tanning, much slower - at least a year in pits of water from the river Coly and oak bark from the Lake District) and produces much more flexible leather as a result. I suspect our rather random segregation of products on the website causes confusion!

As another aside, I'm trying to be good and keep our blog updated with things that at least I and I hope others into the detail of how things are made might be interested in..

Charlie

Glad you like it

Really glad you like the Oak Brown - I absolutely love it so am always pleased to hear others agree. Its really a rather special leather.

For those who haven't seen it there are a couple of pictures below. Its a great colour and its grain pattern is lovely.





The belt is here

Charlie
Edited by Equus Leather - 4/23/12 at 7:31am

Hi All,

A quick picture of a watch strap just finished for a customer. This is a Red 22mm bridle leather strap with white stitching, dark red edges and a polished ARD buckle. Quite a bold combination and I thought I'd post it as a lot of our output is more conservative, so one for the extroverts!



The second photo is one of our Oak Brown straps on a Rolex Explorer II (I think). The colours are a little odd but I always think its interesting for people to be able to see action photos customers have taken themselves rather than the more formal pictures we tend to take..



Charlie

A couple of action photos of the red strap above - I'm enjoying the fact our watch strap buyers send us photos! This is a red version of our bridle leather watch strap on a Baume & Mercier

Hi All,

I thought I'd post our regular reminder that we have a permanent 10% discount coupon for Style Forum members and that non Europeans (lucky things) don't have to pay VAT. To get your discount use the coupon StyleForum10% when you checkout and 10% will be deducted from all the goods in your cart regardless of the amount. As soon as the website knows your outside the EU, i.e. you have registered and logged in the VAT will be deducted as well. I'm always here to help if you have any problems!

Some photos of our recent top sellers, all the recent photos seem to have been watch straps so we should redress the balance a little!

The Scott - a belt for all seasons and one of our biggest sellers. I own belts no 1 and 2 made and wear one or other everyday and love them. This is heavy weight 5mm leather in a mid to dark brown



The Oak Brown - great character and coloration for lighter coloured summer outfits! The is hand coloured oak bark tanned bridle leather and has a great grain pattern and colour variegation



Both belts actually have a strong StyleForum provenance - these are oak bark tanned leathers from Bakers of Colyton who we started working with way back when to make a SF limited edition belt. We send FOC samples of leather all over the world so if you want to see these leathers in person or any of the others we work with just let me know.

Charlie

Another nice customer photo! This is a Hamilton wearing a Oak Brown strap with black thread. The grain thats on of this leathers best features is really clear as is the natural patination

Hi Jimney

I haven't any really old London Tan here to photograph I don't think but I'll take a look and see what I can find to photograph. Maybe someone else will be able to post a photo as well, we do sell quite a lot of London Tan. In the meantime a description might help - London Tan will eventually age to a warm light to mid brown but will take a long time to get there if not exposed to the elements. In a belt it'll spend a lot of time being a really pleasing warmer darker version of London Tan along the away before it gets to it light brown stage.

London Tan is a really interesting colour - its centuries old. It was used extensively in Edwardian and Victorian England and a lot of the leather goods you see from that time started of as London Tan . Its always been prized for the way it ages, its a very graceful process.

Photos later if I can find anything interesting to photograph!

Charlie

Hi Justin,

Glad you like them Let me know if I can be any help

Charlie