"Punch" drunk! Probable too many pics.

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So I got a new strap in the mail on Saturday. The holidays of been crazy and it's been bugging me that I can't get to it till now. I know one day later.


I finally got about a half an hour today to do my work got all my tools ready.


Step two mount it on the watch. Looks pretty good already.




I gave it a test drive and marked where I thought it would make sense to have the hole for me. For those doing this the first time don't make it as tight as you think you should; make it a little bit loose. If you make it too tight the watch is really going to pull towards the 6 o'clock side and have the watch dig into your wrist. At least that's how it works for me.




Now it's just a case of measure five times and try to cut once. The tip I have is to lightly press the driver into the leather just to make a soft indentation. This would give you an idea if it's in the right spot on. If not retry.





Whoops! Looks like I hammered in a little too hard. Oh well... old board.


Initial test drive looks good. But somethings missing? Hmmmmmmm...
Also you can see it's not too tight as the watch is not pulling too hard at 6 o'clock. Nice and flat.












Using the old punched out leather hole, I space out my holes for future use. I cut it using a razor to have several holes. I settle on 15mm apart.



Punch punch punch!!!

Looks much better!





Need a beer now.


BTW, I was getting "you gotta be fricking kidding me" looks the entire time from my wife....


Thanks for looking.