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Really nice work, What do you use to burnish edges?

The "belt on top of the belt" is certainly a unique design but is there a physical reason for this?  It does make for a more expensive approach?

1 hour ago, jay Z 513 said:

Really nice work, What do you use to burnish edges?

thanks jay, i sand with a medium grade sanding block, dye, then gum trag, and use an ordinary edge burnisher, i do have a motorized burnisher but i prefer todo it by hand most of the time now ;-) 

54 minutes ago, HENDREFORGAN said:

The "belt on top of the belt" is certainly a unique design but is there a physical reason for this?  It does make for a more expensive approach?

hi hendgre,  its a style of belt from the states,give it a google ;-)  

11 hours ago, HENDREFORGAN said:

The "belt on top of the belt" is certainly a unique design but is there a physical reason for this?  It does make for a more expensive approach?

They are called ranger belts and have been made for ages. BTW nice looking plain belt. Here's some background info: 

 

When I wrote "unique" I primarily meant that word used in the context of a UK based leather-worker producing the design.  However, whilst I knew immediately the purpose for this belt was to comfortably carry the extra weight of a side-arm when explained, I didn't put the name "ranger belt" to that design until given the heads up on here.  Thank you.

Do remember that elements of this design of belt go back farther in time than you might imagine.  Though the term "baldric" is often misquoted as the name for the design it is from the need to comfortably carry and permit accurate drawing of a broad sword that this belt draws on it's origins . . that's around two thousand years of evolution.  A "baldric" is technically a suspension system for a sword worn over the shoulder and not around the waist.