I just saw the previous clip on making a leather keeper and i decided to post a very short clip of me making a metal( brass) belt keeper using a die. I have had the die made few weeks ago when i thought it's a good idea to replace the lether keepers with metal ones and have that end of the belt less bulkier .
Initially i made the die to have keepers made for my dog collars and i thought it looks nice enough to use it for my belts too. So far ,i had the die made in 3 different widths , 1.5in , 1.75in and 2in and as you can probably notice from the video you can make the keeper in 2 different depths using the same die .Most of the time i use the small one for belts and the larger one for dog collars where the leather is thicker.
I would also use a narrower metal band for the belts in the future ...the one in the video it seems to be a bit too wide ...but that's what i have on hand for now.You can see some of my belts with metal keepers in my first post here
I tried to keep the clip as short as i could so if you guys have any questions just fire away !
Thanks !
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=SGiJYDJoM5A