salvi Report post Posted February 18, 2011 I'd like to start with my first leather project so I have decided to try carving, stamping and making a few holes on belt strips. For that reason I'd like to buy a couple 1 1/2" 8-9oz Veg. Tan belt blanks at the cheapest prices possible. The most reasonable price I have found till the moment is on Springfieldleather.com. Do you think $5 a good price for? or it is better to try getting a strap cutter and buy a leather shoulder? Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pete Report post Posted February 18, 2011 I'd like to start with my first leather project so I have decided to try carving, stamping and making a few holes on belt strips. For that reason I'd like to buy a couple 1 1/2" 8-9oz Veg. Tan belt blanks at the cheapest prices possible. The most reasonable price I have found till the moment is on Springfieldleather.com. Do you think $5 a good price for? or it is better to try getting a strap cutter and buy a leather shoulder? Thanks I buy a lot of blanks from Kevin at Springfield. They are really good and consistent. If you are simply practicing holes and tooling the buy some scrap pieces and cut them 1 1/2". A shoulder is expensive, you might not get that many pieces long enough for a belt, if at all. PRACTICE until you are good enough to be happy with the finished product.My suggestion would be to take some 8-9 scrap maybe a foot long, carve and tool it and practice antique-ing or finishing and edgeing and burnishing. If you like what you have then buy a blank and make yourself a beautiful belt. No sense in wasting a good blank or a prime piece from a shoulder/side/culatta, etc until you have the technique that will make a good finshed product. LOT'S of help here from start to finish. pete Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
