Equus Leather - English Handstitched Bridle Leather Belts - Official Affiliate and Review Thread

[fazalmajid]

Tim Hardy

Equus

Jasper Highet (got it last week, which is why it's so pristine)

To my untrained eye, the Jasper Highet belt has the best stitching and finishing.

 

[jssdc]

That’s a really helpful set of comparison photos. I’d say that the jasper belt has the coolest looking stitch, but to some earlier posts is fat and not skivved around the buckle. It’s one of those unappreciated Equus things that apparently made the business model untenable. I’ll probably go to tim hardy next but will miss Charlie and dawn.

 

[patrick_b]

Just ordered one from Tim Hardy. Thanks for the recommendation. All but one of my Equus belts are 1 3/8”. I have one in 1.25” in Aus Nut so I went with1.25”/32mmm in light Havana.

 

[takashi78]

Every time i see the thread have a new post i hope it's an update to the situation bout Charlie and his biz.

I guess we will never know unless he pops up eventually or ever.

 

[fazalmajid]

That’s a really helpful set of comparison photos. I’d say that the jasper belt has the coolest looking stitch, but to some earlier posts is fat and not skivved around the buckle.

No, it is skived. With my calipers I measure 4.60mm on the belt, 3.12mm at the buckle and 1.80mm at the tip

 

[peanutbutterjellychoo]

Looks like Equus is back in business but they changed their name

 

[takashi78]

And already 1000+ post and so many followers?

 

[garigo]

That's because they just changed the name of the old Instagram account.

 

[TimothyF]

LOL at the people who earlier were like "There's no way for the owner to make the customers whole. You don't understand how bankruptcies work!"

Clearly the guy has time to be out there hawking a book and offering his "expertise", which I hope is in leatherworking and not in conning

 

[MattyS]

LOL at the people who earlier were like "There's no way for the owner to make the customers whole. You don't understand how bankruptcies work!"

Clearly the guy has time to be out there hawking a book and offering his "expertise", which I hope is in leatherworking and not in conning

What does the amount of time he has to write a promote a book have to do with his financial and legal capacity to "make his customers whole" while filing for bankruptcy? The old business -- along with its assets -- are now presumably gone. It's not surprising he has time on his hands to write a book.

 

[patrick_b]

Just ordered one from Tim Hardy. Thanks for the recommendation. All but one of my Equus belts are 1 3/8”. I have one in 1.25” in Aus Nut so I went with1.25”/32mmm in light Havana.

Tim Hardy arrived today. Really quite nice. I think I've got my bases covered but if I ever needed another bridle leather belt, I wouldn't hesitate to order from Tim.

 

[jssdc]

LOL at the people who earlier were like "There's no way for the owner to make the customers whole. You don't understand how bankruptcies work!"

Clearly the guy has time to be out there hawking a book and offering his "expertise", which I hope is in leatherworking and not in conning

Yours must be in trolling and not thinking. Nobody likes how equus went out, presumably not Charlie either. But what’s he supposed to do, sit with his thumb up his ass because marketing his primary skill will offend the easily offended like you?

 

[nemononame]

I was a long time customer of Charlie/Equus and ordered many products from them -- always fair dealing and fairly priced compared to the much cruder items you can purchase elsewhere from the typical retailer. They earned my goodwill, and I'd order from them again if I could. Bankruptcy is not a path to riches, and no small family business goes there unless something went quite wrong.

I also ordered a couple belts from Tim Hardy, and they were great too. Charlie's were ever-so-slightly more carefully made, sometimes in ways that betrayed an obsessive mind at work, like way the tips always came to a perfectly centred point, along with the embossed the lines intersecting perfectly. There also was nice skivving (as noted above), the leather seemed just slightly thicker (could just be variation in the batch though), the variation in length was just a bit more consistent, and the presentation (the box and little bag) just a bit nicer.

I'm more than happy with the Tim Hardy belts and they aren't in any material way the lesser -- I'll order from him again for sure. But Charlie's stuff was even more fastidious -- perhaps that contributed to his undoing when he embarked on more complicated things, who knows.

 

[bjhofkin]

I was a long time customer of Charlie/Equus and ordered many products from them -- always fair dealing and fairly priced compared to the much cruder items you can purchase elsewhere from the typical retailer. They earned my goodwill, and I'd order from them again if I could. Bankruptcy is not a path to riches, and no small family business goes there unless something went quite wrong.

I also ordered a couple belts from Tim Hardy, and they were great too. Charlie's were ever-so-slightly more carefully made, sometimes in ways that betrayed an obsessive mind at work, like way the tips always came to a perfectly centred point, along with the embossed the lines intersecting perfectly. There also was nice skivving (as noted above), the leather seemed just slightly thicker (could just be variation in the batch though), the variation in length was just a bit more consistent, and the presentation (the box and little bag) just a bit nicer.

I'm more than happy with the Tim Hardy belts and they aren't in any material way the lesser -- I'll order from him again for sure. But Charlie's stuff was even more fastidious -- perhaps that contributed to his undoing when he embarked on more complicated things, who knows.

Charlie's work had soul.