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    Seriously, mate! Good-looking stuff!!

    I love that buckle design!!!
    The Official [BREN]

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    well nice to know the design is appreciated.

    I did the knotwork in autocad to start with and fed it to adobe illustrator to give it some depth before I laser engraved the mold halves.

    It started as a simple 4 strand weave the same way I make rope, then I tried to give it the endless look of traditional stuff, and failed on two strands.

    the buckle design artwork was procured by my fiance, and she spend a great many hours creating the various masks needed to laser engrave the molds.

    They took around 2.5 - 3 hours to cut at 0.025mm passes.

    I wanted some detail.

    Maybe I have high standards, but I never quite looked at celtic /scottish styles with the "less is more" mentality, but I have had a few comments about it in the last couple of days and I'm starting to understand.
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    In response to TheOfficialBren - just looked at your profile - my fiance is part cherokee as well.
    ---If you are going to die - Die with your boots on---

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