Belt buckle for a wide belt

[Baldybrown]

You could go elk antler.
BTW When does your season start. Is your troop going to be at the Yellowstone Games this year? How about Thanksgiving Point in Utah?
Hope to see you soon.

[tundramanq]

I search using terms: 2.5 inch or "2 1/2 inch", "center bar", single, tang, square, brass, buckle. And then weed through all the chaff. I avoid the round buckles as they are hard to use and pucker the belt in the buckle.

At times I have had to buy a belt to get the buckle. I have had luck at times with santa claus belt also, beware some are cheap tin buckles.

I get antique brass by buying bright brass buckles - strip the finish and put it in my natural gas oven hanging face down.
Let the oven warm up to 150 or so and shut it off. The sulfer in the natural gas odor does nice uniform job on the buckle.
Repeat until you get the patina you want. For me it's about 3 cycles.

[Nighthawk]

I search using terms: 2.5 inch or "2 1/2 inch", "center bar", single, tang, square, brass, buckle. And then weed through all the chaff. I avoid the round buckles as they are hard to use and pucker the belt in the buckle.

At times I have had to buy a belt to get the buckle. I have had luck at times with santa claus belt also, beware some are cheap tin buckles.

I get antique brass by buying bright brass buckles - strip the finish and put it in my natural gas oven hanging face down.
Let the oven warm up to 150 or so and shut it off. The sulfer in the natural gas odor does nice uniform job on the buckle.
Repeat until you get the patina you want. For me it's about 3 cycles.

I have actually found that my biggest issue with the round buckle is that it has a way of tearing up my edges! As Ron can attest, I pay a lot of attention to burnishing hard, smooth edges, and I hate seeing them get frayed by the buckle.