Making a Hand Stamped Leather Santa Belt

Let's start the holiday season off right by making a hand stamped leather belt for Santa! This black leather belt's shiny brass hardware and seasonal snowflake design will add the perfect finishing touch to your Santa Claus costume or holiday décor. We know the real St. Nick would approve!
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0:47 We've got some great videos on measuring out our belt blank, so we're going to concentrate more on our design. But our belt blank, just in a nutshell, here's what we're doing. I'm going to take my waist size and I'm going to add nine and a half inches. Here's how that works. So for me, I'm a 35, so from the center of my oblong to my second hole, that's my waist size-35 inches. The nine and a half is simply the distance from that hole out and for my oblong out. That's all we're doing. So let's jump over to a digital pic. So on our oblong end, we're going to come in one half of an inch from the end and one half of an inch from the edge. Now we've got a larger buckle, so let's give that a three inch spread then half inch from the edge and half inch from the edge. Now on our tongue end I'm going to come in three inches that's because but even if we're on that last hole our tongue still has room to go through the buckle. We're going to give each of these holes a one and one quarter inch spread.
1:46 Now for Santa, I typically go five, but let's go six just in case Santa has an extra cookie or two. Now for our decoration, this is the easiest way to do this. I'm going to find my center point between my inside size hole and my rivet holes. There's my center line, we're going to work in four inch increments out from there so it doesn't matter how large our belt is. Everything's going to match up and we're always going to have a consistent distance from our last design to our holes. Okay, now the last point here, English point. I don't have a two and a half inch wide English point so all we have to do, let's take a piece of poster board or paper cut it two and a half inches wide, fold it over and then we simply use our French curve and we have a perfect template for an English Point. Alright, so easy enough here. Let's jump over to our main table, we’ll cut some leather.
4:24 Sheeting makes a great pattern, but also right here if I use my poster board to make my template for an English point, I can just transfer that right over to my pattern sheeting and I can trace from there. So let's start right here, I'm going to trace in my English point and mark my size holes. Okay, we've got that, so let's just scoot to the other end. Now down here I'm going to mark for each of my rivet holes, but also right in the center of this pattern I'm going to drop in a small hole and I'm going to make a mark. Therefore, when we drop in our oblong, that's kind of a spread and it's a wider belt, it's going to be hard to get that well centered. That's going to make that super easy. Now, when we jump over to mark for our decoration, I'm going to start right here at our rivet hole and at 32 inches. Okay, so let's take another pattern two and a half inches wide and I've simply marked in four inch increments. So 32, half of that is 16.
5:36 Let's put our center line right there. Now with these marks I don't want to make these too heavy, this is going to be our snowflake but we need to know right where that's going to be. Now we can add one more star on either end, so let's square that. I can see my mark. There we are. There's four, let's do one more on this end, and four. Now we're going to drop in a smaller snowflake in between each. So right here on the end we'll need to come out two inches then center these. Here's the easiest way to do this. We could always mark this on our pattern if we want, but let's just offset that two inches. Now here, let's make as light a mark as we can and one more outside of our last snowflake. Okay, so let's trim our end. Well that actually looks good. Now let's step over to our punch table, knock out our round holes and oblong.
6:54 Let's start with our rivet holes. Now I want to go with a smaller hole here, because a smaller hole is going to mean a better bite for our rivet. I'm going to go with a tube that's about an eighth of an inch or somewhere around three millimeters. So let's hit these four holes. Good, we've got those. Now for our oblong, I typically want to go one and a half inch, but we've got a wider belt, bigger buckle. Let's go with a one and three quarter. Now if we don't have that, it's a little bit of an obscure size, we can always step out our oblong. So we've got a small hole right here. What I'm going to do is I can actually see that hole through my oblong. Let's do our best to center it both left and right, top and bottom.

[@james2592OldLeatherSmith]

OLD Leather Smith here, great job Chuck. I make professional Santa Claus belts, 4" wide, length with fat suit on. Black patent leather, silver letters, special 4" 2 prong roller buckle which I stock. I guarantee once buckled around waist it will not move up or down. GOD'S BLESSINGS ✝️⚾🙃

[@wncSanta]

I just made my first Santa belt. It was 3 3/4” wide by 56” long. I would suggest using Chicago screws to secure the buckle as Santa tends to upgrade his buckle from time to time.

[@ZeRowe]

great

[@DanielReach-TheLeatherVerse]

Really clever way to create the larger snow flake.

[@richardkatzman2066]

Chuck, very nice Santa Belt! I think if I was going to make one, I would add stitching to Old Saint Nick’s Belt. I would add white stitching which would really stand out. I usually use Ritza white. But I think this time, I would get Reflective white thread so we can see Santa in the dark! Best regards, Richard

[@romankhismatulin2028]

Looks like a power lifting belt 💪. Cool.

[@markedis5902]

Can I suggest that you always go for an odd number of size holes either 5 or 7. It’s a design trick as odd numbers are more pleasing to the eye.

[@unboostedpueeblood]

I just stumbled onto that when I was asked to make a belt for an xxx sized man. He gave me his broken belt to use for his size. So I added a few more inches to his new belt, and he was pleased with the results.

[@jannagel2893]

"we're going to have die on nothing than our belt,gloves and our paper " Remember the finger at the start of the video?🤣🤣🤣

[@tinybigfoot495]

do a video on making a sam browne belt

[@th.burggraf7814]

Awesome ! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@jenniferbauman4802]

Great video. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.

[@WeaverLeatherSupply]

Thanks for watching!

[@juliangonzales2916]

Saludos👍👍👍

[@legendarycostumeworks6958]

Do you recommend using this leather balm instead of antique paste and/or satin sheen?

[@M.Melnick]

How do you make a double-prong belt? I have seen a lot of videos on belts, but setting up the double-prong is trick for me.

[@michaelsorrells3311]

I can find on eBay

[@thamontgomeryz]

Love the videos. I got a question but its not about this video. What is the lightest weight leather but also extremely extremely strong?

[@KevinSmith-gh5ze]

If you really need light weight and durable, kangaroo leather is considered to be the best. Goat and deer are also good.

[@thamontgomeryz]

@@KevinSmith-gh5ze I will look into Kangaroo, goat and deer. Thank you

[@richardcameron3681]

Alum tan cowhide hands down is the toughest

[@vicklandmohamedshamim]

Where to buy this belt. Kindly advice

[@WeaverLeatherSupply]

We don't sell the finished belt, we are just showing how you can make your own in this video!

[@wowyummyyy]

L I K E 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 ✳✴✳ ✴✳✴✳ 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@james2592OldLeatherSmith]

OLD Leather Smith here, I also ALWAYS USE CHICAGO SCREWS WHEN ATTACHING A BUCKLE if 4 no other reason 4 future breakage. GOD'S BLESSINGS ✝️⚾ 🙃

[@stimpymcwhisky8129]

That seems a bit long to case leather