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#15,211
dgphoto said:
Today’s rehab pile:
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I finally got motivated today after two Diet Cokes and a couple of donuts. [emoji39]
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What is that all the way on the bottom?? Under the camel Bleeker, a Light Tote? You're a tease! Happy rehab day.
My family wore me out yesterday. If I get Blackrock on my Market Tote and touch up my little Pocket Bag with dye/colorant today I will be thrilled.
 
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Lake Effect said:
What is that all the way on the bottom?? Under the camel Bleeker, a Light Tote? You're a tease! Happy rehab day.
My family wore me out yesterday. If I get Blackrock on my Market Tote and touch up my little Pocket Bag with dye/colorant today I will be thrilled.
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It’s this:
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And the color in the photo is wonky but it’s lime green. :)
 
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#15,215
katev said:
What did the original zipper pull look like on that bag? Here's one on Etsy and they are using the hangtag chain as the zipper pull!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/236999...?ga_search_query=9441&ref=shop_items_search_1

Here's an alternative suggestion while you are searching for the correct pull, but it's not as good as replacing a lost zipper pull with an original or matching pull. I have used a split brass ring (a keyring) as a substitute zipper pull. If it matches the hardware then it will look better than that homemade pull and it will be functional.
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I think I'll go the replacement route. I am not that confident that I could make one that looks nice. I have been looking on line to try to find what the original looked like. I will also look for a split brass ring as well. I appreciate everyone's suggestions :)
 
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Tosa22 said:
I think I'll go the replacement route. I am not that confident that I could make one that looks nice. I have been looking on line to try to find what the original looked like. I will also look for a split brass ring as well. I appreciate everyone's suggestions :smile:
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I thrifted this hobo a couple years ago. It was missing a zipper pull. I made this one.
 
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katev said:
What did the original zipper pull look like on that bag? Here's one on Etsy and they are using the hangtag chain as the zipper pull!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/236999...?ga_search_query=9441&ref=shop_items_search_1

Here's a suggestion for a alternative while you are searching for the correct pull, but it's not as good as replacing a lost zipper pull with an original or matching pull. I have used a split brass ring (a keyring) as a substitute zipper pull. If it matches the hardware then it will look better than that homemade pull and it will be functional.
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It looked like a normal leather pull. Mine is pre-creed and the pull looks like this:
 

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whateve said:
It looked like a normal leather pull. Mine is pre-creed and the pull looks like this:
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I have a zipper pull on a skinny flight bag same as this zipper that I need to replace. I can't figure out how on earth to get the zipper ring out of the zipper thingie though. You cant just bend it up with pliers like some, it's kinda a closed box that the ring is enclosed within it. So I actually found a zipper pull I want to replace it with I can't do it.

I have a pre creed slim satchel that is like a watermelon tote only without the kisslock, and it has a zipper pull that is just like a piece of leather glued to itself. It would be simple to make one like that. Also my pre creed bucket bag has that same simple zipper pull.
 
#15,223
Belicious said:
I have a zipper pull on a skinny flight bag same as this zipper that I need to replace. I can't figure out how on earth to get the zipper ring out of the zipper thingie though. You cant just bend it up with pliers like some, it's kinda a closed box that the ring is enclosed within it. So I actually found a zipper pull I want to replace it with I can't do it.

I have a pre creed slim satchel that is like a watermelon tote only without the kisslock, and it has a zipper pull that is just like a piece of leather glued to itself. It would be simple to make one like that. Also my pre creed bucket bag has that same simple zipper pull.
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You might ask a leather and shoe (cobbler) repair shop to see if they could replace it.
 
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dgphoto said:
It’s this:
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And the color in the photo is wonky but it’s lime green. :smile:
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whateve said:
They put that up a few years ago when Debi was buying up a bunch of bags so Coach could bedazzle them and sell them for inflated prices. Very artistic to use a barrel of water instead of a sink, and dip rather than soak.
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Hey, if she upgraded to a full rehab barn set up, then hey, that's living the rehab dream.
Still photos on the web of her rehabbing out her bathtub like us, lol. Well, maybe not for long. The whole barn rehab workshop at first seemed wonderful and amazing to me. Then the rest of my brain not devoted to rehabbing lol kicked in. And the video struck me as slick and glossy and very stylized, if you saw it in comparison to her bathtub rehabbing posted on the internet prior to the Coach project. Coming off very folksy. And yeah, that is exactly what she may be in real life. And that's nice, no shade or hate from me!
Keep in mind, all in all, it is posted on Coach's website. The whole folksy Americana leather craftsmanship (if you ask me, wants to imply made in the good ole USA) on a ranch in Wyoming image is simply that: an image to market what Coach wanted to project. I think that clip is less about Debi and more how a company that makes everything in China would like to sell their consumers on the idea that their current products made in China are an embodiment of leather goods made 40 to 50 years ago in a NYC loft to people being paid a living wage. And that image includes a little girl on a pony and fire works. Can you get more frickin' American than that? I can't remember, were they serving up apple pie in that video lol? Slow clap to that marketing team. At the risk of sounding cynical, if it is on their website, it is all about Coach's marketing and positioning.
I'm done lol. Just my opinion.
 
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