Not sure if anyone can offer advice here, but there's plenty of know-how on this forum, so it is my best bet...
I just bought a Musial SM6 to clean up. The vertical leather strap in the webbing has a notch out of it and I'd like to consider replacing it with rolled lace, ala the famous picture of Mantle holding his glove. However the vertical leather seems to be sewn to the two horizontal pieces of the web. This would appear to prevent me from making this modification (versus the leather strap being laced to the other pieces of the web).
Is there any advice out there?