Rattlesnake And Stingray Concho Belts

[leatherman1457]

Here is my latest projects . I made two conchos belts for practice. this is what i came up with. The conchos of both belts are made of 2" nickle rounds that I made concave by using my pepe steel concho die. once concave I soldered a 1" concho strap on the back of it. I used 1 1/2 oz leather on the back and then covered the concho with the snake and stingray. I laced the snake one's with a dark brown calf lace and the sting ray with a black calfs lace. The buckles were a little harder since I do not have a concho die that large. for that I used 16 gauge brass cut 3 1/2" for the snake and 4" for the stingray. I used the end of a log and with a template made a round mark in the log. with a ball peen hammer I made a concave area and placed the brass pieces in the log and with a poly concho hammer(rounded on both sides) and made the buckles concave. I soldered a belt strap and a hook on both buckles and finished like the conchos. I made the belt for both. the belt is about 18" to long just in case the person that buy's them is of a large frame or unless they are like me Fat.lol.

[broncobuster]

nice job. looks like a challenging job but turned out good. they are different. Bronc

[MADMAX22]

Thats a lot of ingenious work, looks great too. Good job

[leatherman1457]

Thank you for the compliments. It takes a little more work to do these because I have to do the doming and soldering the concho's and belt buckle before I can even start doing the leather work. I have other concho belt I want to do but these two kept rolling around in my head and i had to get them out before i went crazy. i was a little late on the crazy part but still having fun doing it and that is all that counts.