steveb leatherworks: the blather

Friend, neighbor, riding partner, local titan of business, TR is a good guy whose been kind enough to give me some business over the years. I’d made him a pretty unusual belt a year or so ago, a Scrapper that was pretty fun and good with jeans. It was a rugged belt that was more lavish in the manner of earth tones used with a variety of browns in full display…uh, yea!

Well this time around TR wanted something a bit dressier, a little thinner – 1.5″ and  black, black with  more black and well,  he pretty much asked for a triple black belt. Now, I am generally not a big fan of black, but knowing this had to be a tad dressy, i built up a pattern that’d play with the ambient light and would “shine and sparkle” without resorting to cheap gimmickry or appliances… Keep in mind this is a 10.oz veg tan belt – a thick and substantial unit!

TR really dug it and I think it came out pretty hotshit too. The deal with black is, let it breathe, let the design open up and don’t get busy.

How about you  pick a buckle and let me build a belt around it!