NEED HELP TO ATTATCH CONCHAS

[craftsman827]

I am making a concha belt for a customer..

The conchas are the SLOTTED type..

What is the best way to attatch them to the belt ???????

Ex: With one long continue piece of thin leather going through the conchaos, than rivet at both ends ????

ALL HELP ACCEPTED......

[TimKleffner]

Craftsman

Sounds like you figured out what you need to do with those slotted conchos. Most conchos that I have ever used on belts and most all the other leather projects I've put out, I have always used screw back [chicago screw type].

You may end up having to return those and replace them with the screw backs.

Happy tooling

Tim

[dbusarow]

The way you attach them to saddles is by using a bleed knot in the strings. Whether or not that will work for your belt depends on the design of the belt. But I think it could look pretty cool to have strings hanging from each concho. Use really nice saddle strings of course since they would end up as a fairly prominent part of the design.

Dan