Shooting Stick

   You never know what you will be presented with at a market. This time it was a shooting stick that needed repairing.  This was more a refurbishment rather than a repair. I knew I had suitable leather back in the workshop. The customer and I agreed a price and the stick was put in the van for later. I had a bit of a think about the best way to rework the seat. The design came to me and I was away. Essentially the seat is a long piece of leather folded round bars on each of the folding wings of the stick to form a seat.

     As you can see in the picture above I stitched along the edges. Only part of the edge stitching secures the two sides of the turn over. The rest of the edge stitching is just a detail. Just to be super secure I stitched across the free end of the turn over too.

    I like to do an extra piece of detailing. Whilst doing a spot of research I discovered that the more expensive shooting sticks have a lash to keep them closed. It seemed like a good idea so this stick got one. It took a little bit of extra measuring as the popper base and the rivet to hold the lash had to be fixed before the seat was sewn in place. I think the lash adds a little something.