Chinstrap : opinion needed, please !

[Rich G]

Well, I've learnt something today as well! I know that the stictching can be black (though none that I have are) but didn't know the stitching could be found off to the side at 90 deg. like that one.

Also, I though the impressed border also had to come to a point where the end of the strap comes to a point but it seems not in every case.

Brian, you're right about being jumpy with chin-straps... they are not covered well in the reference books so when I see something that is not the 'norm' for me I do get uneasy!

Glad to see it's a good, early piece. If there are no objections I'll be saving that one for future reference.

Rich

[william r match]

The thread is tied off well within the edges of the strap unlike Chris,s which appears to lap around the strap.

Hope this explains the 'issues' that I referred to Andy.

Billy

[Edelweiss]

Billy, I could have signed your post : my concerns were exactly the same as yours. Moreover, I'm always more fussy (if ever it was possible), when I see a black chinstrap on a LW helmet...
See that, I already had one (neither mint, nor minty) with a black chistrap too ! (below) And on this one, the chinstrap is positively "soldered" to the helmet...
Who said that brown chistraps are often encountered on LW helmets ?!
The only two brown chinstraps I own are (since day one on helmets, of course ) :
1°) On a M.35 DD Polizei helmet.
2°) On a camo M.35 DD Heer helmet.



Anyway, this thread is turning in a very interesting way ; because, as I said before, too few info is given about the different chinstrap models & variants in the vast majority of the reference books. So, I think go on sharing yours may be a pretty good idea...

[Perry Floyd]

Here's one in very, very light brown, painted buckle. This helmet was purchased from a veterans estate..
More to come..

[Perry Floyd]

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[Perry Floyd]

Black chinstrap thread is quite common, the more helmets you handle, the more you'll notice it...

[Perry Floyd]

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[Jean-Loup]

Perry, isnt your brown chinstrap simply a normal balck one set up upside down??? Normally the inside is brown, and on your brown one its black.

JL

[Perry Floyd]

No, there's no rule to it. You'll find them turned both ways. Sometimes even mis-matched...but that one is the lightest colored one I've owned..