good! thanks
It seams my hosting service isn't totally reliable so I ran a few through the TDH service (Thanks for the service!!!) 
I'll have to experiment but here's a theory proposed by 3 different leather shops on the leather edge:

The leather would probably glue down, a series of holes would be punched through both pieces of leather and the plastic. Stitching would go through the holes. the leather would be glued, folded back over itself and glued to the inside of the guard.
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