Lining Belts

[Rlbuckers15]

I was wondering if anyone has any advice on a good, yet inexpensive for backing or lining belts. I want to step up my game a little and start using something because I always just leave them bare.any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

[Leather Stash]

Pigskin

[Dwight]

If you make the belt out of two equal thicknesses of veggie tanned leather, . . . contact cemented together, . . . sew the edges, . . . you will have a belt you can will down to your grandchild possibly.

They are absolutely sturdy, . . . strong, . . . look great, . . . wear great, . . . and if you carry "stuff" (cell phone, . . . handcuffs, . . . CCW, . . . pager, . . . ammunition, . . . flashlight, . . . etc) on it, . . . it won't sag.

If you use almost anything else, . . . the edges will not burnish really well together, . . . wind up looking raggedy in a couple years or so, maybe even sooner.

May God bless,

Dwight

[venator]

Personally I use two layers of vegetan back to back as suggested above, it allows for dying and durability as well as snazzy edges. Contact cement, sew and it's solid.

[byggyns]

In my first and only belt project, I used a belt blank from Tandy (8-9 oz). After that was tooled & dyed, I lined it with 2-3oz veg tan. The result was a nice, stiff belt that wasn't too thick with edges that burnished easily.

Hand stitching that thing took forever (about 4-5 hours). I need to lose weight to make my belt projects smaller

Edited January 19, 2016 by byggyns

[dfrensdorff]

I line mine with a 2-3oz Horween Double Horse Front......

[venator]

If only I could buy horween locally rather than paying almost as much for shipping as the side costs. . .

[club49]

I don't have a sewing machine and I never lined a belt. My question is, after you cut a glue you're lining, do you put a stich line and use a stich spacing wheel or do you use a punch? If using a punch do you go through both sides or one side and use an awl ? Go easy on me folks, I am new to this.

Jim

[grmnsplx]

I think a wheel, stitching chisel or pricking iron would be fine to mark your holes. You can then use your all to make the holes one by one as you sew - if that's what you want to do.

Now you can use a stitching chisel to punch your holes too. But I would caution you on that. Usually this is fine, but you have to do it right. Sometimes using a stitching chisel this way can cause your two layers to de-laminate and you'll have to try to re-glue that area and it sucks. The factors that increase the risk of that are,not having a solid base under your piece, a poor glue/cement job, using a really wide chisel (lots of teeth) and using a tool that is not sharp enough.

[rickdroid]

If you make the belt out of two equal thicknesses of veggie tanned leather, . . . contact cemented together, . . . sew the edges, . . . you will have a belt you can will down to your grandchild possibly.

They are absolutely sturdy, . . . strong, . . . look great, . . . wear great, . . . and if you carry "stuff" (cell phone, . . . handcuffs, . . . CCW, . . . pager, . . . ammunition, . . . flashlight, . . . etc) on it, . . . it won't sag.

If you use almost anything else, . . . the edges will not burnish really well together, . . . wind up looking raggedy in a couple years or so, maybe even sooner.

May God bless,

Dwight

Dwight

Hope Im not hijacking this thread

is there a specific reason to use two equal thicknesses as opposed to using a heavier weight on the exterior and a lighter weight on the interior?