Making Leather Straps and Belts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- My website is www.bucklehurstleather.co.uk for high quality handmade leather belts, bags, axe covers, tool rolls etc.
Making some leather belts for my tool roll.
In this film I am making a couple of vegetable tan leather belts with brass buckles for by bowl turning hook tool roll. I am making these belts the quick and easy way using rivets.....the result is a strong and functional belt, which looks attractive.
I decided to provide a bit of decoration to the belt and I used a tool called a crease to get a nice line along the edges. I heated the crease tool with a spirit lamp to get its blade nice and hot, and then ran it along the surface of the leather to get the decorative line. This works well on vegetable tan (veg tan) leather, but it would not work on chrome tan leathers in the same way. So that the belts do not fall off the tool roll and get lost, I have attached them with rivets.
I hope you enjoy watching the film. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Thank you very much for this video! The final result looks really good and you explained the process impeccably. Thanks again!
Thank you for making this video! it was great help for me when I was trying to figure out how to make straps to add and replace some on my medieval suit of armour.
First video I watched on how to make straps. I am hoping I will be able to learn from here how to make leather restraints for the wife and i to use. Thank you for the lesson.
Have always enjoyed your many videos and varied and admirable skills especially as a urban american.
I've been wanting to make both a bedroll and a tool roll for my motorbike...this will help guide me through that process...thank you!!!
That sounds like a good couple of projects - good luck with those.
Thanks, I have been putting off making some things I wanted because I couldn't wrap my head around how to make fasteners nicely.
Thank-you as always for filming these sorts of projects Harry, I really enjoy seeing you create a wide range of projects that I know nothing of how they are done.
I must admit there were at least four or possibly five tools in this video that I have never seen before.
Thanks again Harry and I eagerly await your next project or video. N.
Thanks Neil ...I will aim to put a film up sometime on leatherworking tools - I am a bit of a tool nut!
Another great project. Thanks Harry
Thanks....I will be posting some very old leather work soon - from the Mary Rose!
Harry I always learn a bit. Thanks for the demo and well done lesson. Carry on!
Dave - as am I ...and please note I am now using chalk! Thanks
Harry i would love for us to have the ability to spend a sunny summer afternoon together comparing notes.
Love to see a tutorial for the bag handles that are sewn along one edge and have stuffing inside
incredible! lovely hook case!!!
Good tips. Thank you
Thank you Harry
Nicely done, learned a couple of new things. Thanks!
Thanks - I am always learning from others on youtube, so hopefully we are all helping each other - thanks for your comments.
Awesome stuff! I do enjoy watching these videos of yours and finding out about the different tools you use! Keep it up!
Thanks - I'm pleased you enjoy them.
Harry Rogers Would it be possible to make a video of some of these tools? What type of steel they are made of, how they where made (like the curved chisel/cutter) or where to get these tools if one does not have the capacity to make them. And what is that board you are cutting on? Just a Q&A about your leatherworking tools. I ,and surely a lot of others, would appreciate such a video!
Norwegian Blacksmith Yep - I will try and do something on the leatherworking tools - there is a film on forging the bowl turning hooks...thanks for your comments. regards Harry
Muy bueno y muy bien explicado. Gracias por compartir
Gracias
so helpful!!! thank you so much :)
For easy simple straps. Try a sandwich in your vise of a higher block, a block of the width of desired strap and a utility knife blade with the edge away from you. Push the leather in from the other side enough to grasp the end and pull, guiding against the higher block. If your stock is even around the edges you can make as long a strap as possible.
Hi - yes that would work very well - like the strap cutter that I only showed in this film but did not use.......you describe the method very well....and provided people are careful with the sharp blade its a very good way of cutting...thanks for adding that. Regards Harry
Well, is their no end to this mans talents?
Thanks.....but still so much to learn - I had a great day yesterday learning how to make spoons with a group of spoon carvers, bodgers and bushcrafters.
Regards Harry
Where can you get leather straps like that in black?
Hello Harry, thank you for your videos which are of very good quality ! Recently a client asked me to make a lined belt (i use leather for uphosltery, and i like challenge !). Do you have a video of that or do you know a ggod video which could tell me about the lining part of this project ? Many thanks, Séverine from Paris
+Séverine Meunié Hi I am sorry but because I work with full thickness veg tan leather I do not make lined belts.
Enjoyed this video as I want to learn to make straps. Could you tell me what you used to heat the crease tool please.
June Deakin A dental meths burner works great
Great Harry...I love your work and your country English accent.........😊I have a beautiful collection of approximately 100 year old C.S. Osborne tools including Space markers. French edgers including curved etc ...A round knife Circa 1900 stamped Crawford..new edge...my everyday tool...Large diameter hole punches...etc...
I certainly enjoy your videos, Harry.....P.S. Do you ever work with Cordovan Shell 🐎?
thx that was good to watch :)
Thanks.
Could you tell me what is the white board you use for hammering into your leather please.
June Deakin It's a poly board..see Tandy leather
great video sir, thank you.
I am curious, what do you call that white plastic board that you punch holes on and cut?
thank you
Hi its a poly board...soft plastic...a bit softer than a kitchen cutting board. The Identity Store may still stock them.
@@harryrogers wonderful. thank you very much :)
Would you cut and rivet before dying or after?
After
I am dying to know what the size of the buckles you used is? Thanks.
Those were an inch.
@@harryrogers Thank you so much for your quick response! I sure didn't expect that.I am working on a project and trying to find the right size of buckles.Your work is amazing! Thanks again for responding so quickly.
were do you get these tools
SuperModel Atlanta The old ones turn up on EBay and the new ones from Tandy.
How do you know how long the oblong hole should be for the buckle tongue?
aconsideration1 The best way is to do a mock up with a scrap of leather skived the same as the final item.
"Mark your lever lightly... for the wivf." God I hate the English... how can Jimmy Carr can pronounce the t-h sound, but everyone else in the UK can only make a v or f sound?