Making Belts, The Easy Way

[Ta2ooz]

Thanks very much, greatly appreciated.

[Carrieanna1172]

Thanks so much Jim!

Super helpful!

[Bob Blea]

Thanks for sharing Jim!

[Eccho]

Thank you for a very useful tool.

[paprhangr]

Thanks Jim

Do you have any " how to" info for making Ranger style belts?

[King's X]

Thanks for sharing Jim. Do you mind if I share with my students and followers on FB with appropriate credit to you, of course?

[TexasJack]

An ordinary man can live a long and fruitful life and then fade away into history with little more than his name on a stone.

But one who teaches others what he has learned will have a bit of himself living for many generations.

I don't think we always appreciate those who take the time to make patterns or layouts or instructions and pass them on to others. Even when we acknowledge someone who answers our questions or critiques our work or points us in a better direction, do we value the effort enough to do the same as we develop our own skills?

Sitting on the desktop next to my keyboard are DVDs from one of the guys I consider a master at his craft. I have some others on a shelf from another master who not only has answered questions for me online, but has also called me and talked me through problems I might have spent years solving.

So thank you, Jim, and all those folks that push us in a better direction!

[Jim]

Thanks Jim

Do you have any " how to" info for making Ranger style belts?

You'd better believe it!

[Jim]

And thank you Texas Jack. I remember too well whenever I asked a leather worker how something was done and always got the same answer; TRADE SECRET! I swore that I would never say that to anyone. Never have and never will.

Jim

[Dwight]

Thanks, Jim, . . .

I use a little different approach, . . . but it comes out the same.

One thing I thought you probably should have added, . . . "Don't ever let the buyer TELL you what size belt he/she needs".

Measure the belt he/she is wearing, . . . then ask them if they are going to wear the new one any differently than this one.

One of my first belts was for a guy who wore 36 waist Levi's, . . . so he wanted a 36 in belt. His "want" was 36, . . . his "need" was 41.

That and having made a gun / holster rig (53 inch belt) that turned out too small, . . . in the 30 days I took to get his order done, . . . well, . . . I had to add 3 inches to the belt.

Have fun, belt makers, . . . Jim gave you all some really good tips, . . . use em.

May God bless,

Dwight