Prusty Report post Posted November 21, 2016 Made this recently for an old friend who needed a new belt for a knightly/lordly kit impression at living history shows. It measures 70' long so there's about 2ft hanging from the waist when its buckled up. The tooling was done using 13th century tools, and is based on a pre-conquest cross found in Lowther, although I simplified the design just so it'd be a bit easier to make. The tooling is pretty rough in places, its a new design for me and I'm not great at doing curves. And those rivets gave me some real trouble- some of them had shafts set off-centre and ended up really off-centre on the belt, something I really should've checked first. And I'm not entirely confident in the burnish holding up, but time will tell on that. My friend is happy enough with it though, and it does compliment the rest of his kit well, so I'm gonna take that as a success! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dwight Report post Posted November 21, 2016 That's neat, . . . I like reproducing "antique" stuff, . . . you did a good job on yours, . . . May God bless, Dwight Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
