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Needed a new work belt to go with my new boots.

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Oh Tim. You make the nicest stuff to drag around job sites.

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oh yeah, I like to use my ragitty projects for work too... Phshhhh!

This is beautiful! If this is a work belt what's a dress belt look like? Haha is the hardware silver?

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No kidding, looks like a "Sunday go-to-meetin'" belt to me!

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You are an awfully flashy fella on the job site. 

Belt looks great!

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The buckle is  Silver Plated from judgeleosmith off of Ebay. Nice buckles.  The majority of the people I work around own horses or cows. Free advertisement.  There's 4 or 5 that are ready for me to make them boots I'm just not ready yet. I,m making myself a pair to wear around then I think I'll be ready

I also cut the back. I know it's not to fancy but I can pull that off in 30 mins. 

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That is a great looking piece of art!  Nice!

YinTx

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You do beautiful work Tim!  How thick is the belt with liner?

Gary

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Impeccable work. 

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I'll be happy when my front side cuts look as good as your back side cuts.

Beautiful work, and a belt I would be proud to wear. 

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Mods, can we move this out of the "Show Off!" forum and into the "Make Everybody Jealous" forum? That belt is just too much.

 

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Very much beautiful

Is it an illusion but is the end tapered narrower?

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This belt is pretty thick. Almost 1/4" thick.  It is a blank from Panhandle Leather probably 8/9 oz. and I lined it with a piece of 3/4 oz. I did skive down both ends.  My belts always bend or get a kink in the back so I thought thicker would be better. I did inlay a piece of the material I use for toe boxes in my boots about 8" long in the middle hopefully to stop that from happening.

Yes the ends are tapered. Belt is 1 9/16" with the ends 1".

Thanks for all the positive comments.

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You've got some high level finishing skills Tim. Beautiful work. 

Might I ask what kind of dye you're using on the edges under the stitching?

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Thanks  

The dye is a 50/50 mixture of Feibing's Light Brown and Chocolate Brown thinned 50% . I mixed the colors a long time ago because I didn't have enough of either one to do a project and used it ever since. I really like the color. Thanks again.

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Your backgrounding work is stupid good. It all is great but with this belt and the tool bag, you're background work is what has floored me. Not to mention the color control too.

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Do you use a resist of some sort when dying the edges? Or just a lot of care with a brush?

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 I use Bob Park's Edge Markers. One of the best tools I have. They are like a big fat marker with what ever color dye you want. The top has Wyo Sheen for a resist before I Antique so if you did get some on top it wipes off if you are quick. They make dying the edges easy and a lot faster.

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I should clarify, I had meant on the face of the belt. The borders are darker than the tooling, I was wondering about that and how you did it haha. My mistake. 

I've heard of his edge markers, I oughta get a few haha. And I'd also like to try wyosheen. I hear it's awesome stuff. 

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 Yes with a small brush and some patience. I usually just put the antique on thick and let it color the edge of the border. this time I dyed it so you don't have put the antique on thick.  I dyed the face with one his edge markers and all of the black on the tool case I had on here a couple of weeks ago. They work great.

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Ooo, hehe. Now I gave to get some

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Gorgeous!  And that's not a word I use often.

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