don't agree with you at all, I always do it this way and I always get excellent results and my clients are delighted.
afterwards, everyone is free to take the advice into account or not
Usually between two holes I leave a gap of up to 30 mm between the width of the belt and the hole.
over 30mm I leave half for example for a 40mm wide belt I leave 2 centimetres
for me, the pleasure of working comes in large part from using beautiful tools because I feel like a duty to use them in the best way possible and because it contributes to the respect of the work I have in progress.
it is also for this reason that we can hardly find or have astronomical prices of the old tools blanchard, the new production is poor in quality and I know what I'm talking about I have old and new tools from home.