steveb’s leatherworks: daily blather

This fancy, one of a kind belt came out nice! Dave was real happy about it too!

busted out a new flame for JP’s belt

Had the pleasure of making for a belt recently for a customer who is on the job. Traditional black basket-weave stamping with a little touch of bling courtesy of my trademark use of rivets in the billet. Came out understated and tasty. Now, I normally go for a contrasting thread on my belts, gives it [...]

Just cant get enough of producing flame belts..telling ya! I love making them and have been mashing-up this  flame style for awhile now, kind of a small-C, tribal thing going on. Hope you like ‘em. Get in touch if you want one! 

Say bye to April, hello to May. In celebration here are some tasty bits from the past month  to keep you engaged 

So you all read my crap about the belt buckle that i findingled from every one’s favorite sculptor, artist, collector of all things motorcycle, Jeff Decker. If you didn’t, go back and read it here, fer cryin out, loud:http://steveb.biz/2008/?p=2149 we must have continuity in the storyline.
So I finally got the decks clear to knock out [...]

Dan’s belt from back in the day - clean, simple - timeless. tasty bit of stamping, some hand-done stitching. Nickel silver buckle with keeper and billet rivets. Beauty of a thick belt, 1.5″ wide - worn daily, for years now -  it is…much loved.

Been behind the 8ball lately. Busy here, busy there…the proverbial chicken with no head….I passed myself coming while I was going…and didn’t recognize myself…hey now!
Been knocking ‘em down in the shop..finally got a handle on what needed to get done and one of the first things to get done was this belt for Customer Ken. [...]

I’ve scored some pretty cool stuff in my years….
… worked and performed at all kinds of events (music, car, bike, sporting, art) , resulting in a collection of T-shirts
… traded and bartered whatever it was I had at the time that had value for things I wanted
… it is handy knowing and being friendly with talented people, scored [...]

Digging back in the archives for this feature.
Had a little celtic thing going here with this belt. Love the off kilter red dot center….
As I recall this was one belt of a set of 2, with the other one being the tried and true tribal flame belt design. 

As I have mentioned in posts past, making a set of leather goods is a kind of special affair, most folks buy one piece at a time, so getting the chance to do a few pieces for one person at one time is cool - i enjoy tying a belt and wallet together with a [...]

Freddy - wanted to give his Dad, Big Joe, a steveb belt for the holidays. Big Joe, is not a jeans wearing kind of guy, instead favoring “slacks”. This necessitated the manufacture of a narrow *dress* belt. So in answer, a 1″ strap was cut from a brand new, delivered last week hide, because, Big [...]

A new belt for Tyler.
Black color, tan thread, brass buckle, a wack stamping pattern, lined with Pig.
Tyler never had his draws so stylishly secure.