Suede gun-money belt help.

[ZARDOZ the GREAT]

How-DEE!

I have a piece of suede in a beautiful rust red/orange that I am thinking of using to make a pair of gunbelts from, carried in a sort of "X" on the hips, like Curly Bill in Tombstone...

Any advice on this?
 

Will folding it over and sewing the edge like a regular money belt be enough? I am thinking of a 2.5" belt, so I figure a 5" wide strip for each, folded in half lengthwise.

Any advice on doing the cartridge loops? The belt tongue/buckle part? I do the punched hole versions, but I don't think suede will be stiff enough for that, so seems either I would have to do sewn loops, or attach a piece of regular leather with the loops on it.

The suede is about 1/8 in thick, so folding it and sewing the edge, I would think, would make a pretty strong gun-belt.

I also have some car upholstery leather (seems like real leather with a rubberized coating of some kind) that's about 1/16" thick which I could use on the inside, but I think this would make it unnecessarily thick.

 

Thanks in advance.

Edited May 1 by ZARDOZ the GREAT

[Dwight]

Just use it like regular leather . . . do the belt loops . . . then weldwood all of it together in the middle . . . except a few inches at the buckle end . . . where you make your money belt part of it.

Sew the top edge . . .  rolling pin the bottom edge . . . tight as you can get it.

Made several of these . . . 

May God bless,

Dwight

[ZARDOZ the GREAT]

12 hours ago, Dwight said:

Just use it like regular leather . . . do the belt loops . . . then weldwood all of it together in the middle . . . except a few inches at the buckle end . . . where you make your money belt part of it.

Sew the top edge . . .  rolling pin the bottom edge . . . tight as you can get it.

Made several of these . . . 

May God bless,

Dwight

Great! Thank you!

Love that color! British Tan?

I love British Tan and Burgundy!
Been trying to get a lighter burgundy. Thinned mine to 50% and still dark, so I will try thinned to 25%.

Again, Thank you!

[HandyDave]

Keep in mind you may need to cut strip a little wider then 5 inches depending on thickness of leather. Cause when folded you'll lose just a bit of width. 

[ZARDOZ the GREAT]

On 5/4/2025 at 7:55 PM, HandyDave said:

Keep in mind you may need to cut strip a little wider then 5 inches depending on thickness of leather. Cause when folded you'll lose just a bit of width. 

Thanks!