Belts

[wood]

These are some belts I did for my brother's kids for Christmas. Nothing major, just something to hold their pants up. Comments, critique always welcome. I also put some pics up in the saddle maker gallery of some fenders I did. Check them out and let me know what you think. Later

[Luke Hatley]

howdy Wood, belts look great i like your tooling

[abn]

Those are really, really nice. Congrats!

Alex

[pete]

These are some belts I did for my brother's kids for Christmas. Nothing major, just something to hold their pants up. Comments, critique always welcome. I also put some pics up in the saddle maker gallery of some fenders I did. Check them out and let me know what you think. Later

Beautiful work! What did you background the 2 inverted names with? And wnat did you finish with?

pete

[craftsman827]

Very NICE Wood !

Where did you get the pattern for the belt ?

Is it a craftaid, from a book, or one of your own.

I would love to carve one for myself.

Yours Looks GREAT !!!

[Cecil]

Really nice work. The tooling is great and I like the stitching as a border.

[pete]

how wide are the top 2 belts? Are those the Chan Geer belt patterns?

pete

[Beaverslayer]

Very nicely done belts, the detail just pops right out.

Ken

[wood]

Thanks for the replys. The pattern on the top two a buddy of mine and I worked up a while back and the brown one is just a repeating oak leaf back to back with no stem work. I did the letters on the top ones by just cutting them in with a swivel knife, beveling down a little with a small beveler I made and matting down with a small background tool. It's a craftool, I'd have to go look at it to get the number, I'll get it later. I do a lot of lettering that way, I think it turns out pretty clean looking. The top ones just have a little neatsfoot oil and then Neat-lac. The brown one is oil dyed and neat-lac. I usually do 1 1/2" belts but these were for kids so I made them a bit thinner. They were around 1 1/4" I think. Thanks again. Later, Randy