This pad helps for a more comfortable carry when you are lightly dressed - and with heavier set-ups, eases the burden a little on your shoulder or neck. The natural leather underside also helps stopping the strap slip from your shoulder if you are not using our jacket or vest - which have their famous shoulder buttons to keep straps in check.
This pad is available as an optional extra on the Type A listing - so that it can be bought at the same time as buying a Type A strap, or you can buy it here.
It is made of the same superlative quality as the leather used for all our straps.
A note on the snaps we use for the shoulder pad - we would have loved to have offered the shoulder pad right from the beginning of production but sourcing the high grade Newey brand snaps - and, crucially, the press tools to fit them to the leather proved an epic hunt. We also needed to find a sufficient quantity to be confident that we could offer the shoulder pad to anybody who wanted one. Daft 'limited editions' are not our thing. And, of course the bonus with the Newey snaps is that they are nickel plated true vintage - and thus go perfectly with the rest of the nickel plated hardware used on our straps.
