...and though the holes were rather small....

**Todd Bradshaw** · 8th July 15, 04:18 PM

...they had to count them all.....

New, highly-perforated belt. I got a great price on the buckle last month at the Milwaukee Highland Games and figured I should do something with it. The belt is three inches wide, narrowing slightly at the ends to fit the buckle and made from two layers of 4 oz. veg-tanned tooling leather. It took three long sessions with two plier-style hand punches to punch all the holes, one-by-one. Tedious and really hard on your hand after a while, but it came out pretty nice.

kilt by Barb, the tartan is heavyweight Dalgliesh in our T6 ancient blue version

**Mike S** · 8th July 15, 04:32 PM

Outstanding looking belt and sporran. Don't be upset if I plagiarize it and make a set of my own that resembles it, I like it that much! ;)

You need to seriously consider going into business for yourself, and selling examples of your balmorals and leather work.

**Elizabeth** · 8th July 15, 04:34 PM

Wow That is really nice!

**Lady Grey** · 8th July 15, 06:38 PM

Stunning work

**Dughlas mor** · 8th July 15, 06:45 PM

Great idea for the belt, and very well executed.

**mookien** · 8th July 15, 07:24 PM

Todd: No. It came out beautifully! That is a splendid looking kilt, belt, and sporran combination. That fact that you were materially involved in its creation greatly enhances its aesthetic appeal. Congratulations. Great work by all involved.

Just out of curiosity, what does "in our T6 ancient blue version" mean? I am drinking a dram (or two) of Old Pulteney 17 (don't let Allen know) as I write this, so I am likely missing something obvious. If so, my apologies.

John

**Todd Bradshaw** · 8th July 15, 08:06 PM

I haven't had a chance to try the OP 17 yet, but we certainly enjoy the 12 year-old version. After heart surgery around Christmas for an aneurism, they told me not to crawl around on the floor making sails and not to pick up anything heavier than ten pounds for four months. One of the things I did to keep busy was spend a lot of time playing with the tartan designer on the Scotweb website. I've always wanted a tartan, but come from a family of tartan-less slackers, so I figured I'd design my own, Rather than thinking up names for them, I just just numbered them T-1 through T-30 or so. T-6 was our favorite, but we never have gotten around for thinking up a better name for it. We've had the blue version woven and a version where we replaced the blue with black. Next will be a modern version with somewhat darker blue and brighter oranges and reds. Despite the fact that these oranges and reds are already pretty bright, they are actually a rusty orange and brick red yarns. The modern version should really pop.

So, I have a file full of tartan designs and variations with thread counts, sett sizes and color samples. Here is a screen shot of some of them. If my wife would hurry up and win the lottery, we could have them all woven. The scary thing is that we probably would......

You need to seriously consider going into business for yourself, and selling examples of your balmorals and leather work

I'm too inefficient at it, and sometimes trying to turn something you enjoy doing into a small business takes all the fun out of it. I'm just enjoying making reasonably practical projects like these that I can get some use out of. My projects often tend to be a bit farther out of the box. Last year I made an eight foot tall, portable folding Sasquatch. I want to make him a kilt. Then I can tell people I kilt a Sasquatch.