Hey Indy, I'll post some pictures later to exactly show what I mean. It's difficult to explain in words. I understand that it should not look machined but hand made, but dwarfs are supposed to be craftsmen
, and the pouch I got, looks like it was rushed... The pouch in the first pic looks much, nicer: also hand made, but done by a craftsman. Anyway, most of the things I can fix, I guess...
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So, as promised some pictures of what I was talking about:
1. The stitching. I understand that this is hand made, but the stitching work in the red circles is pretty sloppy in my eyes and not comparable to the stitching seen on the pouch in the sample pic.
2. Then the leather detailing coming loose, but this is not a biggy, I guess. I'll just reglue it:
3. The flap: it's not that easy to capture it on picture, but the edges are a bit raggy. The sample bag doesn't seem to have this:
Also the shape is more or less round, but could have been better. I'll try to sand the outer rim to a nicer round shape:
Also, when I took out the leather ropes, to work more easily on the pouch, I saw that the holes in the leather were not punched completely:
In the meanwhile I took a leather punch and made the holes complete.
All in all, I'm not that thrilled with the purchase. To be honest, I would have skipped this run, when I knew on beforehand what I would have gotten. However, as said: the price was not that high, so shipping it back to get a refund, would cost me almost halve the price of the pouch. So I'll rather try to improve it myself. My plans:
1. Punching the holes nicely (done)
2. Sand down the flap to a nicer round shape
3. Reglueing the leather flap ornament
4. Maken the complete pouch a bit more brown with brown leather wax
5. Replace the rather raggy leather straps with other ones (straps already ordered)