Carved oak leaf gun belt

[Simplejack1985]

10oz H&O exterior/  6oz brown fancy Italian veg tan liner. 1mm cream tiger thread with gun metal grey hardware. Dark brown fiebings antiquing. Custom stamp made by leather stamp maker for the belt tip. Keeper is fiebings light brown. Took me a long time to get it finished but I finally shipped it off today.

[DieselTech]

Nice work. It looks great. Did you line it with a different leather or just dye it a different color?  Duh! I sshould of read the post.

Thanks.

Edited February 24, 2024 by DieselTech

[Hags]

Nice! I'm getting better at tooling. Not quite there yet though.  Is the custom stamp your logo?

[dikman]

That is very nice. Are the oak leaves freehand or do you have a pattern?

[Simplejack1985]

3 hours ago, DieselTech said:

Nice work. It looks great. Did you line it with a different leather or just dye it a different color?  Duh! I sshould of read the post.

Thanks.

Different leather

 

3 hours ago, Hags said:

Nice! I'm getting better at tooling. Not quite there yet though.  Is the custom stamp your logo?

It's the 10th special forces group 

 

2 hours ago, dikman said:

That is very nice. Are the oak leaves freehand or do you have a pattern?

That's the al stohlman oak leaf belt craftaid. I wish I could draw lol

[bladegrinder]

That looks great!

[Ddat]

Great job. 

[MarshalWill]

Looks good! The died keeper goes good with the antiqued tooling. Nice work.

[Simplejack1985]

4 hours ago, bladegrinder said:

That looks great!

Thank you

 

3 hours ago, Ddat said:

Great job. 

Thank you

 

17 minutes ago, MarshalWill said:

Looks good! The died keeper goes good with the antiqued tooling. Nice work.

Thank you, thats what I was going for with the keeper

[Outfitr]

Nice work. Very heavy duty for sure. Did you leave the liner off the bend portion? I know it can get difficult to make that bend with thicker belts. Machine sewn?

[Simplejack1985]

On 2/25/2024 at 1:07 PM, Outfitr said:

Nice work. Very heavy duty for sure. Did you leave the liner off the bend portion? I know it can get difficult to make that bend with thicker belts. Machine sewn?

Thankyou. And yes I did ill stop the liner right where the belt end meets it after folded. 10oz or thicker plus liner is way to thick. I will skive down the belt end as well from where it bends to the end so it doesn't get to bulky.

[Dwight]

THAT is one good looking belt . . . would be proud to wear one like that.

I'd also love to have the pattern . . . it would definitely make a "distinguished" looking pair of suspenders . . . 

May God bless,

Dwight

[badhatter1005]

I agree with Dwight. Excellent belt. Excellent craftsmanship. And I agree it would make an excellent pair suspenders

[Simplejack1985]

1 hour ago, Dwight said:

THAT is one good looking belt . . . would be proud to wear one like that.

I'd also love to have the pattern . . . it would definitely make a "distinguished" looking pair of suspenders . . . 

May God bless,

Dwight

Thank you, it's a craftaid from tandy 

 

44 minutes ago, badhatter1005 said:

I agree with Dwight. Excellent belt. Excellent craftsmanship. And I agree it would make an excellent pair suspenders

Thank you, I think it would make some cool suspenders as well

[Handstitched]

Yeh, oak leaves & acorns are great. One of my fave patterns to carve, that and roses. I use Al Stohlman patterns, but on rare occasions , I 'try' to do them  free hand. I am getting a little better- ish. 

You done a great job on that  

HS

[Dwight]

14 hours ago, Simplejack1985 said:

Thank you, it's a craftaid from tandy 

Thanks, Simplejack . . . I'd of passed them up . . . too good looking  . . . 

Will have to make a trek that direction . . . 

MaY God bless,

Dwight