Vegetable-tanned leather belt with 40 mm buckle

Please note that prices displayed in currencies other than PLN are only informational, at checkout you will be charged in Polish Zloty.

CHARACTERISTICS:

-Almost 4 mm(!) thick vegetable tanned leather

-Solid stainless steel buckle

-Saddle stitched by hand, without machines

-33 mm wide (2 mm buckle allowance)

-7 holes with 25 mm (1") spacing (customizable on request)

SIZE:

-In order to determine the size of your new belt, you have to take your old one and measure it from the hole you are using most often, up to the end, where the leather attaches to the buckle (see on product illustration). Enter the result in centimeters in the relevant field. If you can't get a hold of the old belt, please contact me for an alternative method. 

PERSONALIZATION:

-Embossing of up to 3 letters on the reverse of the belt is included in the price.

LEAD TIME: 

Up to two weeks to ship. If you need it sooner, feel free to send me an email and I'll see what I can do.

A completely handcrafted leather belt, ready to proudly outlast its factory competition!

This belt has been cut manually from a single piece of a full grain cowhide, its edges carefully bevelled, sanded, dyed, sealed, burnished, covered with natural beeswax, hot polished and buffed to shine using hand tools only. 

What makes it so much better than the other ones?

Buckle - this heavy, solid stainless steel is incomparably more durable than the buckles of most of even high end belts nowadays. The fact that it has not been plated with anything means that it won't have the problem of the plating or paint scratching off with time. Buckles made of zinc alloys does not stand the test of time not only visually, their breaking load often does not exceed 100 kg, while this one scored 500 kg on the test.

Leather - the usual 'genuine leather' label means merely that the product is not made of plastic, or at least not entirely. In reality that term can legally be applied even to natural scraps that have been ground, mixed with glue and formed into piece of leather again, with new, artificial grain imprinted on it. The material that will be used for your new belt is a thick, full grain, uncorrected piece of hide. Being vegetable tanned, it is acquired in a most eco-friendly way. Unlike its chrome tanned counterpart, it will cover with beautiful patina over time and if taken care of well it can serve for decades.

Way of attaching the buckle - stitching by hand along the belt, using traditional saddle stitch technique provides the most durable connection, this is the way the saddlers make horse equipment and this is the way that every one of my belts is always made. Two most popular methods of attaching the buckle are riveting and stitching across the belt. In first case either the rivet breaks or the leather around it gets loose and the rivet falls out. Stitching across the belt weakens it by perforating the leather in its most critical place. Always pay attention to it while choosing a belt.

Please note that due to the fact that leather is a natural product and there are no two identical leather hides, the product you'll receive might differ slightly from the one presented on the photographs. Color display may vary due to monitor settings.