Alright, back again after having been to London for the weekend. Found a nice package from Slovakia waiting for me, the liner components had arrived. So I quickly put the leather onto the inner ring...
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Alright, back again after having been to London for the weekend. Found a nice package from Slovakia waiting for me, the liner components had arrived. So I quickly put the leather onto the inner ring...
Time for a quick update, currently the leather is being reshapen, I hope, anyway as I put it up on one of these plastic things that you put hats on, don't know what they're called, but we have a hat...
Also I think I will get a size 62 and 64 inner ring as I'm not quite sure which will fit, but they are only about 6€ so whatever, as the leather has contracted a lot, but I'm guessing it used to be a...
Thanks for the tip, MAP , unfortunately a bit late, but I will try it next time I do something similar, at least in this way there are no things on this liner that shouldn't really be there (i.e. tea...
Stitching is done, now I just need the pins and an inner ring, used pretty old thread I had lying around and dipped it in muddy water to match the appearance of the leather more, had to be very...
Decided to do another sort of restoration, I traded an original field bottle I did not need for the 1942 marked 56 size steel liner band which is in great condition and bought the leather piece off...