Suspenders

[Tim Schroeder]

Made these for Pops for Christmas. He has some of those Nocona suspenders and they are really heavy.  These are 1/3 the weight.  I put the cheap spring latches because of weight. They are 4/5oz. HO lined with the thinnest veg tan I've ever seen. I bought it to make the inside of wallets. I would like to know if anybody knows how to keep the slide buckle from moving every time the elastic stretches. I had his other ones to measure so I know the shortest length. I put the slide buckle all the way to the bottom so it couldn't get longer. You can make them shorter if they stretch. 

[Dwight]

Lookin good . . . I tossed the idea of elastic . . . my buddy and I both wear solid leather suspenders.

Don't have a problem once that "fit" size is found.

May God bless,

Dwight

[TomE]

Beautiful work!  Batz Corp sells stainless steel and brass trigger snaps that are a step up from zinc diecast, but maybe not with the slide for the elastic band.

[chuck123wapati]

yup what Dwight said!! My pair also has no elastic you don't need it if they fit right. your tooling is out of this world btw.

[JayEhl]

Wow, that is some fine tooling. Looked like it was a fun project.  I'd go with the leather instead of elastic as the others said.

[DwightT]

Beautiful.  I may have to look at making myself a set one of these days.  And your stitching looks pretty awesome also.

    /dwight

[Bert03241]

very nice work

[Hags]

Very nice! I made a pair of plain ones just to get the process down. Going to have to improve my tooling!

[Gezzer]

OUTSTANDING !!!!

[GrampaJoel]

7 hours ago, Tim Schroeder said:

Made these for Pops for Christmas. He has some of those Nocona suspenders and they are really heavy.  These are 1/3 the weight.  I put the cheap spring latches because of weight. They are 4/5oz. HO lined with the thinnest veg tan I've ever seen. I bought it to make the inside of wallets. I would like to know if anybody knows how to keep the slide buckle from moving every time the elastic stretches. I had his other ones to measure so I know the shortest length. I put the slide buckle all the way to the bottom so it couldn't get longer. You can make them shorter if they stretch. 

I’m a real old guy. I’m hard to impress. But you have done it.

a simple design,  done flawlessly.

VERY nice work!!
I’m truly impressed!

Joel
 

Edited December 2, 2022 by GrampaJoel

[Simplejack1985]

Super clean. Nice job

[Stevenony]

Wow, nice job. Awesome tooling. Nice design.

[Bawarrior]

Absolutely the nicest suspenders I've ever seen. Great job you've done, pops will love them.

[YinTx]

Very nice set.  On the set I recently made, I used heavy nylon/poly webbing with solid stainless slide hardware, that seemed to work instead of elastic.  I wondered about the comfort without the stretch of elastic, but no complaints from the customer, so I figured good to go.  And in that case, solid leather all the way around would do the same thing!