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Where to get extra holes in a leather strap?

  • 26-11-2012 08:24PM
    #1
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I've been to two Dublin Jewellers and a shoe shoe repair shop today and no luck in getting an extra hole punched in the strap.

    My new watch has a thick leather strap which neither of the jewellers could punch and the shoe shops one was too big.

    Anyone have a recommendation on where to go in Dublin to get this done? It's a steinhart strap so it's pretty tough but I don't want to ruin it either.

    thanks for any help


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  • #2
    Reloc8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Reloc8


    I got this done at a place beside happy ring house on o'connell street - think it might have been breretons but one of those - cost me 10 yo yos I think...


  • #3
    Karma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Karma


    tara leather on tara st?


  • #4
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Easiest thing to do in my experience is to just buy a packet of holes from Ebay or another online source and apply them yourself - you can get packets of ten for about €10 delivered, and save money in the long run. This seller has lots of that type of watch related stuff and the quality is quite good compared to some other hole stockists.


  • #5
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭pawrick


    thanks guys - tried the place beside the happy ring house but they couldn't do it. Will try ebay if I have no luck elsewhere


  • #6
    magicherbs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 182 ✭✭magicherbs


    what would happen if you just hammered a hole in it with a nail?


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  • #7
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    magicherbs wrote: »
    what would happen if you just hammered a hole in it with a nail?
    You'd get a messy hole with no material removed, it certainly wouldn't look great. OP, I'm very surprised that nobody is offering this service. Perhaps a clothes alterations place might be able to do it for you? :confused:


  • #8
    Lex Luthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,203 ✭✭✭✭Lex Luthor


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    You'd get a messy hole with no material removed, it certainly wouldn't look great. OP, I'm very surprised that nobody is offering this service. Perhaps a clothes alterations place might be able to do it for you? :confused:

    I would be of the same opinion...I've seen these tools before for punching holes in leather belts
    Nealry sure I seen them on aldi or lidl once


  • #9
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭pawrick


    Thanks for all the help guys - got a shoe maker in the Jervis st. shopping centre to do it for me today using one of the tools listed on ebay. Price 1 euro :)


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