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Hi strap lovers, I am really excited to share this just completed Alligator bund strap with hand-antiqued finish for a customer’s PAM. \u00a0This strap is very special in several ways. \u00a0First, it is the fist Hand Antiqued Alligator that I have made starting from entirely undyed Alligator skin (our previously made Alligators with hand antiquing, I started from typically light brown Alligator and then just added the antiquing dye). \u00a0This undyed Alligator is a new product for us and part of our Veneto Alligator Collection<\/span><\/i><\/b>. \u00a0The Alligator had been fully tanned but just not dyed to any color, which allows me to use the underlying dye color of my choice before adding the antiquing finish. \u00a0 This also allows us to offer just about any color you can imagine in Alligator straps. \u00a0Would you like Army Green Alligator, Light Pink, Orange, Red, Purple or Olive? \u00a0We can now offer all of these as well as a myriad of other colors without the necessity of buying an entire Alligator skin in that color, which is cost-prohibitive for us when we may only be get one request per year in some unusual color.<\/p>\n

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The Second reason this strap is very special are the details chosen by our customer for his strap: \u00a0This strap also features our ‘Thick Curved Lug System’ (TCLS) upgrade, which is designed to give the strap an integrated fit between the lugs, and well as padding at the lug, which gives this strap a uniquely custom look that no other strap can match.<\/p>\n

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The Third reason this strap is very special is, of course, our custom shape bund underlayment. \u00a0This bund underlayment was custom shaped to fit our customer’s Panerai watch and made from matching hand Antiqued Alligator, lined with Black Motorcycle Kangaroo leather<\/b> (more about that in a moment) and fully hand saddle stitched using our finest French linen thread. \u00a0The retaining loop sewn onto the bund underlayment being also lined with kangaroo leather for strength and with just the right fit to hold the strap firmly in place but allowing enough room to allow easy removal of the bund underlayment from the strap, so that the strap can be worn alone, essentially giving \u00a0you two straps in one.<\/p>\n

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The final reason this strap is very special is the lining. \u00a0The Black Motorcycle Kangaroo leather<\/b> is one of the strongest and most durable leathers we offer, while at the same time being one of our most supple (really buttery soft – you won’t believe how comfortable it is on the wrist). \u00a0 This leather is tanned by Packer Leather, Australia’s largest tanner of Kangaroo leathers. \u00a0This leather was designed for use in motorcycle gloves and engineered to be both incredibly soft and to be extremely moisture tolerant, This means that even after repeated wet\/drying cycles the leather will not become stiff or brittle (this is ultimately the reason most straps will fail over time).<\/p>\n

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Contrary to popular belief, the outside of the strap that you see while wearing the strap typically lives it pretty easy and is (in all but the rarest of instances) not subject to extreme conditions that cause wear. \u00a0The inside lining of the strap is where most of the damage is typically done and where a failure of the watch straps most often occurs. \u00a0The harshest environment – absorbing body moisture day after day (even if you’re not sweating into your strap) requires the leather to go through many wet\/drying cycles throughout it’s life and with each of these cycles absorbing salts from the skin and loosing a little of the oils added to the leather at the tannery (which makes the leather soft and supple). \u00a0The lining leather eventually becomes dry and brittle, cracking and generally becoming yucky (yes, this is a professional term). \u00a0Often conditioning the lining leather of your straps (I really like Obenhauf’s Heavy Duty LP for this) can really help to prevent these issues and prolong the service life of your strap. \u00a0Also not wearing the same strap 7\/365 is recommended. \u00a0In fact, I recommend switching straps\/watches every few days thereby giving your leather straps the opportunity to rest and completely dry out (Imagine wearing the same pair of shoes every day, all day for a year and without socks and you will get the idea of how nasty things can become). \u00a0Another option is for us to use leathers that have been specifically engineered in the tanning process to deal with these issues. \u00a0This brings us full circle back to Packer’s amazingly soft gloving leather. \u00a0This leather has been engineered to handle these harshest of environments with aplomb and to look great while doing it (Black or other dark colors are also helpful, in that these won’t as easily show the moisture\/sweat staining that can discolor lighter leathers over time). \u00a0Kangaroo leather is also known to be the world’s strongest leather having a much higher tensile strength than cow’s leather of the same thickness. \u00a0All of which makes our new Packer Kangaroo leathers ideal for watch strap linings.<\/p>\n

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Hi strap lovers, I am really excited to share this just completed Alligator bund strap with hand-antiqued finish for a customer’s PAM. \u00a0This strap is very special in several ways<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,65,45],"tags":[280,246,110,27,213,274,183,351],"yoast_head":"\nVery Special Hand Antiqued Alligator bund strap for PAM -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dangerous9straps.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/very-special-hand-antiqued-alligator.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Very Special Hand Antiqued Alligator bund strap for PAM -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" 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