Belt buckle for a wide belt

**Nighthawk** · 2nd April 12, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

Fair enough, but you should still make him do it because you might not always be who you are, right now.

You do make a good point!

**tundramanq** · 3rd April 12, 11:45 AM

Nighthawk - edge wreaking is the big why and the reason they are in the land fill now.

**Baldybrown** · 3rd April 12, 07:16 PM

How is your belt working out for you?

I love the belt. Unfortunately it is about four or five inches too small. Not your fault. I meant to tell you I had forty inch waist, and you thought I wanted a 40 inch belt. The interesting point is that it is such a beautiful belt that my wife instantly claimed it for her own. Now I'm still in the market for a black belt. Get your trading hat on.

**Nighthawk** · 3rd April 12, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by Baldybrown

I love the belt. Unfortunately it is about four or five inches too small. Not your fault. I meant to tell you I had forty inch waist, and you thought I wanted a 40 inch belt. The interesting point is that it is such a beautiful belt that my wife instantly claimed it for her own. Now I'm still in the market for a black belt. Get your trading hat on.

Well... Watcha got?

**tundramanq** · 4th April 12, 05:31 AM

I have two of these heavy 2.5" plain belts. They come with brass square centerbar buckles. I swapped one buckle with a 2.25" celtic design belt in nickle plate. And I antiqued the other brass one. Shortened and added more holes where needed - original holes are 1.5 inches apart. So now I have 4 wide belts 2 - 2.5" and 2 - 2.25" with nickle and brass buckles on each

http://piratefashions.com/belts.html

**Nighthawk** · 4th April 12, 07:30 AM

Originally Posted by tundramanq

I have two of these heavy 2.5" plain belts. They come with brass square centerbar buckles. I swapped one buckle with a 2.25" celtic design belt in nickle plate. And I antiqued the other brass one. Shortened and added more holes where needed - original holes are 1.5 inches apart. So now I have 4 wide belts 2 - 2.5" and 2 - 2.25" with nickle and brass buckles on each

http://piratefashions.com/belts.html

Interesting! The only thing I note on these is the edges. I'm really meticulous about that. They're beveled, but not burnished. Also they don't make mention of the type of leather they use. I assume it's bridle, but it could also be latigo. That's something that I think is important. They look to be of good quality otherwise, though. Thanks for the link!

**Baldybrown** · 4th April 12, 08:19 AM

Well... Watcha got?

The usual. I made a ton of caubeens over the winter, dark green, oatmeal, navy, army green/brown, etc. I'm still making the brooches as well. It's been fun. I'll show you at Yellowstone.

**tundramanq** · 4th April 12, 09:14 AM

I should note the belt holes start at 24 inches on these pirate belts.
The leather is soft and flexable but hasn't stretched noticably.

**Mark E.** · 28th April 12, 02:32 PM

2.5" Is this a garter belt? Kidding, kidding. One thing I will recommend about the pewter "Jack Sparrow" buckle...that stuff is soft. I have broken a couple modern pewter buckles, so when I made my belt, I had a buckle (a set actually) forged for it-3.5" wide, forged and tempered tool steel. If you tear that off of me (with the double layer 12 oz. harness leather belt), well, I am beside myself and no longer caring...

**Ryan Ross** · 28th April 12, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by Mark E.

2.5" Is this a garter belt? Kidding, kidding. One thing I will recommend about the pewter "Jack Sparrow" buckle...that stuff is soft. I have broken a couple modern pewter buckles, so when I made my belt, I had a buckle (a set actually) forged for it-3.5" wide, forged and tempered tool steel. If you tear that off of me (with the double layer 12 oz. harness leather belt), well, I am beside myself and no longer caring...

While that's very often true of pewter in general, it's not true at all of this particular piece. I have no idea what alloy they used to cast this thing, but it's TOUGH. I've been wearing one of these buckles for the better part of three years, and had zero problem with it.