Custom Tooled Belt- Gypsy Themed

[AlexOstacchini]

Hi all, 

Here is an order just finished for a gypsy themed tooled belt.

The brief for this was scrollwork patterns with some animals incorporated somehow and initials tooled in. The design I went for ended up being a repeating scrollwork section based off a painted vardo wagon exterior, broken up by three framed figures of a horse, goldfinch, and game chicken. Colours were chosen by the client. 

This is 3.5mm veg tan with a 1-1.5mm liner, which I find makes for a nice sturdy belt without being too chunky for everyday wear. Stitching is by hand and the buckle and keeper are held in place with chicago screws so removeable/interchangeable if needed. 

Thanks for looking and I hope you like it!

Alex

 

[Klara]

Wow, that is amazing! Great job!

[TonyBaloney]

Wow that's impressive!!  You've got that bar seeder fine tuned

[Scootch]

Super nice!

Scootch

[Hardrada]

[toxo]

Not usually a fan of scrollwork but perfect for an application like this and beautifully done but surely you would only do something like this for a friend because I can't see you getting back the time you put in but then again, I'm getting old and £20 is still a lot of money. Well done.

[maxdaddy]

Thats beautiful! The bird and animal heads are a nice design surprise. 

[chuck123wapati]

thats over the top! i like the way you did the buckle end.

[YinTx]

Fantastic work, as always I really dig the color combos you do.

YinTx

[AlexOstacchini]

Thanks all! Glad you like it  

13 hours ago, toxo said:

surely you would only do something like this for a friend because I can't see you getting back the time you put in but then again, I'm getting old and £20 is still a lot of money. Well done.

Cheers! This was not for someone I knew, and while I have made enough belts to have a reasonable idea of how much work is involved for price quotes, I always manage to underestimate how long it takes to design and sketch out tooling patterns. In this case I was not happy with my initial design and decided to start over, so several unchargeable hours from the offset. It is always a tricky balance I find as on the one hand it is easy to set a nice hourly rate, but there are definite established price brackets for this sort of product and at the end of the day I can't charge extra for being slow and getting things wrong. But with experience I will hopefully get better at this!

Alex