steveb leatherworks: the blather

Hi friends,  fans, leatherworkers, and browsers…it’s been a while since I checked in here and I thought now would be a good time since I’ve got some stuff in the works that will require homes. This post is about “totes”. Totes are those handy as hell bags that people carry to transport anything from groceries to laptop […]

I just got this last week, from SteveT, a friend, a customer, an Asshole and someone who does not part with his money easily or frequently, being both a New Englander and a Professor of Accounting/ Finance… one of the money/ number fields..lol “Once in a while when I wear your handmade belt, I think, […]

I am acknowledging my white collar roots here… I will say with some degree of confidence – that finding decent belts for suits or dress “slacks” is darn near impossible. I mean, all of the shoe brands sell, what we’ sadly  consider “nice”, dress belts – but they are expensive, soulless pieces of foreign made […]

The Reddy Thready is a black belt with some killer stamping, made from heavyweight Veg tan leather with some great red stitching. .. and ready to go to a home… It is fully lined with pigskin, stitched with poly thread (made in the USA) and ready to be cut to your length. Its brass buckle […]

This is my own style of leather work. I don’t like to add “superfluous decorative items” to my work. Generally, I  keep it simple. But this is my attempt at getting fancy…                

I am not big on gadgetry when it comes to my own style of leather work. I don’t like to add lots of “stuff and decorative items” on my work. I try and keep it simple. But sometimes, its nice to step out and get fancy..we don’t live in caves,  ya know! Taking that need […]

I am not big on gadgetry when it comes to my own style of leather work. I don’t like to add lots of stuff, I don’t use “decorative items” on my work. I try and keep it simple. Simple works, it functions, its durable, its straightforward, its not “bulky”, it’s just what needed.In that vein, […]

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 […]

Ah yes, we’ve all felt it  at some point during the aging process – the dreaded shrinking belt syndrome, which is usually preceded by shrinking pants syndrome and shrinking jacket syndrome. Well some many many years ago, I’d made Chris, a beautiful flame  belt, as I called them – and he loved it and wore […]

Keeping pants up is serious business and I take it seriously – believe it! This ultra thick 12oz veg tan belt is for Chris – who will wear it every day for work. This belt is replacing a belt I made him 6yrs ago, which quite honestly is just about worn to death. This new […]

You are going to tell me that keeping your pants up is not important? Please Do you want to be one of those no-shirt having, pants falling down around his ankle characters like in (the show) Cops. Hail no, you sure don’t ya’ll. What you want is a fine device like the one displayed here […]

What used to be kind of an odd occurrence is happening more frequently: more of my customers are ordering sets of wallets, belts and pocket wallets. This is cool for a few reasons the first being that it’s nice to apply a concept to more than one item, adapting the idea from wallet to belt […]