Leather Fly Swatter | Heavy Duty Flyswatter | Leather Insect Swat

Plastic cracks and twists, and it does it at the joint where the head meets the handle, usually in the first summer. A riveted leather head does not have that failure.

The head is PU leather, thick and riveted. It is chosen for durability and for being wipeable rather than for being a hide.

The head is fixed to the handle with a rivet through the junction rather than glued or moulded. That is the joint that fails on cheap swatters, and riveting is what takes it out of the equation.

43 cm, in metal. Long enough to reach across a table without leaning over the food, and stiff enough that it does not flex mid-swing.

It is the feature. A light swatter pushes air ahead of it and the fly rides the air out of the way. The weight here is judged so it lands properly without tiring your arm.

Leather on a painted wall is gentler than moulded plastic, but any swatter used hard on a delicate surface can leave a mark. Aim at the fly, not at the wall behind it.

A damp cloth or a paper towel. There is nothing to rinse and nothing to dry out afterwards.

Yes, and it is what most of them are bought for. There is no spray, no residue and nothing chemical near food.

Yes. Both come up often, along with patios. It handles being knocked about and it does not mind heat.

It is built for thousands of uses. That is an odd claim for a fly swatter and it is precisely why this one costs more than the plastic ones by the till.

Black only.

It is heavier than a plastic swatter, so treat it as a tool rather than a toy. There is nothing electrical and nothing sharp about it.

Yes, and on most flying insects. A wasp is a different proposition from a fly for reasons that have nothing to do with the swatter.

Different jobs. The electric racket is better on mosquitoes at night, because you sweep the air with it. This is better on a fly that has landed on a work surface.

None. That is the point of a swatter over a spray, especially in a kitchen or around food.

Most people leave it in a drawer or stand it in a jug. It is not designed with a hanging hole.

PU leather stays flexible in normal indoor and outdoor use. Leaving it soaking wet is the one thing that will not do it any favours.

A leather head on glass is safer than a hard plastic one, but a fly on glass is the case for the electric racket, which sweeps it out of the air instead.

It makes a solid crack rather than a plastic slap. Quieter than an electric racket, which pops.

It has real weight in the head and almost none in the handle, so it feels balanced rather than heavy. That is what makes repeated use comfortable.

It costs more, once. The cheap one costs less every summer, which is the whole argument.

Yes, on patios, in stables and in caravans. Wipe it down and bring it in.

No. It arrives made, and there is nothing to attach.

The handle is metal and should not be left standing in water. Wipe it dry and it will be fine.

It is one of the things people buy twice, once for themselves and once for whoever they saw using a broken plastic one.

A black PU leather head, riveted, on a 43 cm metal handle. Hand made.

Allow up to 7 working days for delivery after dispatch within 2 working days. Demand runs hard through the warm months and we would rather quote the real number than the optimistic one.

Orders over EUR 50 ship free anywhere in Austria, which saves the EUR 22 express charge.

No. It arrives made, the head is riveted rather than glued, and there is nothing to tighten, sharpen or replace.

Because it is hand made, the head is thick leather and the joint is riveted. You are paying once instead of every summer, which is the only real argument for it.