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.
Last edited by tundramanq; 2nd April 12 at 09:28 AM.
slàinte mhath, Chuck
Originally Posted by MeghanWalker,In answer to Goodgirlgoneplaids challenge:
"My sporran is bigger and hairier than your sporran"
Pants is only a present tense verb here. I once panted, but it's all cool now.
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