Being a "Gentleman of Substance", I often find it very hard to locate belts that fit, let alone one large enough to qualify as a kilt belt... So I thought I would put one together. I bought a 3" wide strip of leather from Tandy Leather, shaped, dyed and sealed it, then added a buckle I put together in my shop. I could have saved a few hours labour with an inexpensive re-enactment style buckle, but where's the fun in that? There's not much choice in 3 1/2" wide buckles either!



The buckle is made from sheet brass stock I had lying around, and decorated with strips of 1/2" stainless steel that is riveted on using hollow steel rivets. The decorative pattern of Celtic knot concho and rivets repeats 4 times around the belt, appearing at approx. 3 o'clock, 5, 7 and 9 o'clock positions when the belt is worn. (The tartan I have used to photograph the belt is my daughter's dancing kilt, so pictures of me wearing the kilt belt will have to wait at least another week until my kilt is finished...)

~Steve