OttoPiffel
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...für eine handgemachte Lederscheide.
(Normallerweise bin ich eher in britischen Foren aktiv, deshalb also
alles in englisch)
A really good belt, handsewn instead of rivetted
yuck: ) costs a lot of money.
So here is a way of reworking one to please your eye.
I recently bought two leather belt by mail order from a military outlet, E 5,- each.
I got one who was beautiful, old and entirely made by hand.
And a modern one, rivetted and machine-cut.
So the latter was reworked with the former as a pattern.
The most difficult work was to rip off the rivets without damaging the leather to much. I was never got good at that, so I preferred to damage the rear side of the belt.
Now the tongue (right word?), being a bit too short, was enlarged by glueing a piece of good leather to it: Cut to the right dimensions and skivved at the ends, the parts were joined. (One can avoid this by buying the belt about 3" too long and starting with new slot for the buckle)
I decided on a stitch hole distance of 5mm and the holes closes to the buckle were a bit farther from the edge than the others, you will later see why.
First the holes were drilled through both pieces letter, then the loop was put in place between these and with a pick its holes were marked and drilled. Everything must align later while sewing, thats important.
One side has been sewn starting from the buckle and this is a nice trick:
The thread is twirled and continues on the other side to be sewn towards the buckle.
When sewing back to the loop, you insert a third needle before reaching it, thus aligning everything.
Upon entering with the sewing-needle, the third one is subsequently pulled back and a fourth one inserted in the loops second hole.
now one can sew without fishing for the lopops hiden hole.
Sew right back to the buckle and then the thread is wrapped/sewn over the outer edges several times, as shown. Thats why this hole is farther inboard here: lots of stress on the leather.
Done, and it looks not too bad:
Here, both old and new are shown side by side:
Also posted at www. bushcraftuk.com
(Normallerweise bin ich eher in britischen Foren aktiv, deshalb also
alles in englisch)
A really good belt, handsewn instead of rivetted
yuck: ) costs a lot of money.So here is a way of reworking one to please your eye.
I recently bought two leather belt by mail order from a military outlet, E 5,- each.
I got one who was beautiful, old and entirely made by hand.
And a modern one, rivetted and machine-cut.
So the latter was reworked with the former as a pattern.
The most difficult work was to rip off the rivets without damaging the leather to much. I was never got good at that, so I preferred to damage the rear side of the belt.
Now the tongue (right word?), being a bit too short, was enlarged by glueing a piece of good leather to it: Cut to the right dimensions and skivved at the ends, the parts were joined. (One can avoid this by buying the belt about 3" too long and starting with new slot for the buckle)
I decided on a stitch hole distance of 5mm and the holes closes to the buckle were a bit farther from the edge than the others, you will later see why.
First the holes were drilled through both pieces letter, then the loop was put in place between these and with a pick its holes were marked and drilled. Everything must align later while sewing, thats important.
One side has been sewn starting from the buckle and this is a nice trick:
The thread is twirled and continues on the other side to be sewn towards the buckle.
When sewing back to the loop, you insert a third needle before reaching it, thus aligning everything.
Upon entering with the sewing-needle, the third one is subsequently pulled back and a fourth one inserted in the loops second hole.
now one can sew without fishing for the lopops hiden hole.
Sew right back to the buckle and then the thread is wrapped/sewn over the outer edges several times, as shown. Thats why this hole is farther inboard here: lots of stress on the leather.
Done, and it looks not too bad:
Here, both old and new are shown side by side:
Also posted at www. bushcraftuk.com
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