scalloped Belt blanks

[SpruceMoose]

Small sized half round punch maybe? I suppose it depends on how small of a scallop. But I know you can get the half round punch real small though they are cheap tools from China, might work nice

[Handstitched]

12 hours ago, Dwight said:

I've got two of the little belt sanders

I do have a belt sander, its an old ' GMC' , but works fine. When I finally get back into the workshop, I'll do photo shoot of how I will be doing them, might be helpful for anyone else wanting to do scalloped belts .  I should still have the original template for those martingales. Might use that .

11 hours ago, SpruceMoose said:

Small sized half round punch maybe?

I do have some large wad punches that I bought back in May:

https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/107878-wad-punches/

I may be able to utilise one of  them to get the  shape  for a smaller, closer ' curve' . 

Thanks for your input people 

HS

[Wepster]

For those who maybe interested in the 1x30 belt sander on Amazon mentioned by Dwight, I believe it is the same unit sold by Harbor Freight and probably Princess Auto. Here is a vid on setting up the sander to be smoother.   

 

I have added the better bearing, and turned the wheels, two on my lathe and the drive wheel in place. Much smoother. I have also placed a magnet in a small plastic bag behind the drive wheel, catches metal filings, hold the bag over the trash, reach in, pull out the magnet, the filings on the outside drop off.

[SpruceMoose]

12 hours ago, Handstitched said:

I do have a belt sander, its an old ' GMC' , but works fine. When I finally get back into the workshop, I'll do photo shoot of how I will be doing them, might be helpful for anyone else wanting to do scalloped belts .  I should still have the original template for those martingales. Might use that .

I do have some large wad punches that I bought back in May:

https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/107878-wad-punches/

I may be able to utilise one of  them to get the  shape  for a smaller, closer ' curve' . 

Thanks for your input people 

HS

There's also some hand crank leather pinking machines on ebay currently as well, as if we all can't use a little more tool temptation

[chuck123wapati]

On 7/20/2023 at 8:44 PM, Handstitched said:

I do have a belt sander, its an old ' GMC' , but works fine. When I finally get back into the workshop, I'll do photo shoot of how I will be doing them, might be helpful for anyone else wanting to do scalloped belts .  I should still have the original template for those martingales. Might use that .

I do have some large wad punches that I bought back in May:

https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/107878-wad-punches/

I may be able to utilise one of  them to get the  shape  for a smaller, closer ' curve' . 

Thanks for your input people 

HS

i had to laugh yesterday i went to The local tractor supply to get some feed. First thing i saw was  scalloped belt hanging on the rack.

[Handstitched]

15 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

First thing i saw was  scalloped belt hanging on the rack.

I'll be going back into the workshop...to work , this week, I've been on a bit of a hiatus.  Time to get 'back on the horse'.First thing I'll be working on is a  few templates for scalloped belts.

HS

[Wepster]

a piece of corrugated metal or the fiberglass awning/shed/patio roof might give you a nice template.

[fredk]

7 hours ago, Wepster said:

a piece of corrugated metal . . . 

If you mounted a cross-section slice on a wood block you could make a clicker die

Only joking, the metal wouldn't be strong enuf

[bruce johnson]

35 minutes ago, fredk said:

 

 

36 minutes ago, fredk said:

If you mounted a cross-section slice on a wood block you could make a clicker die

Only joking, the metal wouldn't be strong enuf

kind of an idea though Fred. Actually I used to have a few clicker dies for scalloped belts and breast collars. Headstall dies were a one hit deal but the others were open ended. They did a section at time by just overlapping the ends. Pretty versatile - you could  make the straps whatever length you needed but starting in the middle, doing as many scallops as you needed and then the billet lengths could vary by size length needed. 

[Klara]

23 hours ago, Wepster said:

a piece of corrugated metal or the fiberglass awning/shed/patio roof might give you a nice template.

Nope. Just walked past some roof sheeting yesterday and its scallops are much too big for a belt that needs to go through loops to hold up trousers.

For a purely fashion item it might work...