Why We Love the Hope Woodworking Leather Fly Swatter for 2025
The Hope Woodworking Leather Fly Swatter combines the durability and stylish look of leather with the satisfaction of smashed bug guts.
With as much smacking, whacking, swatting, and thwacking as I do, I need a swatter that can take a relentless drubbing. Plastic swatters shatter at my level of bug killing. But the head of the Hope Woodworking swatter is a single piece of leather, and so far — no matter how many times I’ve hit the corner of a counter, a doorknob, or the edge of a windowsill — it still looks like new.
The leather head is also easy to clean, which is important considering the amount of flies I smoosh on an average summer day. Usually just scuffing the swatter head along the edge of the kitchen trash can does the trick—or, in nastier cases, a quick wipe with a paper towel is called for. Plastic heads, in contrast, are usually perforated, so they really hold on to “things,” and cleaning them off takes a lot more effort.
The Hope Woodworking swatter is a conversation-starter, too. It has a funny classiness that everyone seems to want to talk about. Describing the benefits of a leather flyswatter to friends is a joy, but what I mostly care about is how well it works.
