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Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:17 pm
by sierra11b
Does anyone make them or produce them?
Would love to get an OD Green Canvas with orange thread for the MBII.
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:31 pm
by nweash
Well if the obvious two don't do it,
I would hit up John from dangerous9. I feel like if anyone does it, he does.
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:33 pm
by JP Chestnut
Wouldn't the knurl just destroy the canvas?
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:35 pm
by sierra11b
JP Chestnut wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:33 pm
Wouldn't the knurl just destroy the canvas?
Hence me wanting a curved end on the strap. I'm sure some would clear but I've become used to the curved look on this watch anyway.
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:57 pm
by JP Chestnut
sierra11b wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:35 pm
JP Chestnut wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:33 pm
Wouldn't the knurl just destroy the canvas?
Hence me wanting a curved end on the strap. I'm sure some would clear but I've become used to the curved look on this watch anyway.
Unless the curved strap is perfectly stationary, it will wear even worse - it seems. Mayne it could be backed with leather for a more durable solution.
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:23 pm
by sierra11b
I think you're not getting how the curved end with curved spring bars works.
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:37 pm
by CGSshorty
I use curved spring bars with a Drew canvas on my Alpina. It helps with clearance issues, but it certainly doesn't put an obvious curve in the strap.
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:59 pm
by Panerai7
Canvas is soft at the lugs. I used a couple of mine with curved lugs on Alpina and another watch but the straps will still rotate. You're probably talking about like SEL that doesn't rotate
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:05 pm
by sierra11b
Right.
Basically like the oem bremont straps with the fixed curved ends which keeps the spring bar fixed.
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:29 pm
by JP Chestnut
Panerai7 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:59 pm
Canvas is soft at the lugs. I used a couple of mine with curved lugs on Alpina and another watch but the straps will still rotate. You're probably talking about like SEL that doesn't rotate
Hm, sounds familiar
JP Chestnut wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:57 pm
sierra11b wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:35 pm
JP Chestnut wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:33 pm
Wouldn't the knurl just destroy the canvas?
Hence me wanting a curved end on the strap. I'm sure some would clear but I've become used to the curved look on this watch anyway.
Unless the curved strap is perfectly stationary, it will wear even worse - it seems. Mayne it could be backed with leather for a more durable solution.
sierra11b wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:23 pm
I think you're not getting how the curved end with curved spring bars works.
Well, one of us didn't get it. If you bolster the canvas with leather, it might remove the issue that Art and I mentioned. Or not.
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:33 pm
by sierra11b
I get canvas by itself is flimsy. I thought it was implied being a Bremont with a knurled barrel, because the watch comes with curved bars and strap ends, and that Bremont only sells dozens-upon-dozens of curved end straps for this reason. Others in this thread seemed to be tracking. Bremont offers a Kevlar strap with curved ends but not in a pattern I want.
I don't care If a strap maker uses hardened whale sperm or a curved polymer insert in the canvas fold to get the desired effect. My question is who.
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:04 am
by james80
sierra11b wrote:I get canvas by itself is flimsy. I thought it was implied being a Bremont with a knurled barrel, because the watch comes with curved bars and strap ends, and that Bremont only sells dozens-upon-dozens of curved end straps for this reason. Others in this thread seemed to be tracking. Bremont offers a Kevlar strap with curved ends but not in a pattern I want.
I don't care If a strap maker uses hardened whale sperm or a curved polymer insert in the canvas fold to get the desired effect. My question is who.
Does whale sperm get hard? If so in water or only when exposed to air? Also would hardness be affected by how it was cured and would it rub/flake off the canvas if the canvas rubbed against the knurled portion of the case?
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:43 am
by andrema
sierra11b wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:33 pm
I get canvas by itself is flimsy. I thought it was implied being a Bremont with a knurled barrel, because the watch comes with curved bars and strap ends, and that Bremont only sells dozens-upon-dozens of curved end straps for this reason. Others in this thread seemed to be tracking. Bremont offers a Kevlar strap with curved ends but not in a pattern I want.
I don't care If a strap maker uses hardened whale sperm or a curved polymer insert in the canvas fold to get the desired effect. My question is who.
Maybe they can slice a piece of a broken Global knife off and insert it into the end? That may help?
Re: Canvas strap w/curved lugs?
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:58 pm
by sierra11b
andrema wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:43 am
sierra11b wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:33 pm
I get canvas by itself is flimsy. I thought it was implied being a Bremont with a knurled barrel, because the watch comes with curved bars and strap ends, and that Bremont only sells dozens-upon-dozens of curved end straps for this reason. Others in this thread seemed to be tracking. Bremont offers a Kevlar strap with curved ends but not in a pattern I want.
I don't care If a strap maker uses hardened whale sperm or a curved polymer insert in the canvas fold to get the desired effect. My question is who.
Maybe they can slice a piece of a broken Global knife off and insert it into the end? That may help?
No thanks. Wouldn't want to bring down the quality of a custom strap by introducing garbage.