Occidental Leather 8581 FatLip Fastener Bag

Its big, its bulky, and they couldve done a little more with the interior of the big bag. I honestly wasnt expecting it to be this big, that aside, its an Occidental pouch so youre getting great quality. The pouches are big enough to easily access even with insulated winter leather gloves. Im sure itll break in nicely

Best bags in the business. Proud Local 1503 Columbia River Carpenter. Structural concrete.

Perfect. My old bags were the all leather Occidentals. They lasted about twenty years.

These bags are great. I do a lot of metal roofing and siding as a union ironworker and I dont know why i used to use cheap bags. Holds a 30 ft Fat Max. My speed square is always at the ready along with pouches for various screws or bits and two pencil holders.

These pouches make my husband very happy. They hold his tools when climbing and his hardware doesnt spill out he literally tells me almost daily how much he loves that I got them for him and they are exactly what he needed.

Overall a good feeling tool bag, hard to beat the smell and feel of work heavy leather. I know Occidental bags are supposed to be the best you can get and last forever but it appears that their quality control has gone down in this example. Im not a professional leather worker but I do know that in high wear areas on leather goods, a shallow groove is made for the stitching to lay down in, so to keep it protected. In this case several areas including the back of the pouch where it rubs all day against your waist, as well as several interior pockets locations that will be in contact with tools were not. I just cant imagine the stitching holding up to my metal file or beat up channys rubbing against it all day every day. Might take another look at Occidental again in the future and chalk these bags up to covid quality.

Great product!

To big like carrying around a purse.

Awesome

Worth every penny! If you wear a tool belt for a living, you owe it to yourself to get a good one. Bought the 3 inch belt as well. Like night and day over the crap I was wearing from Home Depot