$16 Kilt Belt

**pdcorlis** · 30th December 05, 01:54 PM

Hi Bob

Yup - the guy at the shoe repair palce said the polish seals the leather - so the dye won't rub off. It also puts a shine on the belt, otherwise it looks dull.

I'm sure there a plenty here that know a lot more about leather work than me - so I won't pretend to be an expert - I'm NOT!

**Southern Breeze** · 30th December 05, 03:12 PM

Thats a great looking belt. I've seen them before,but I never thought of dying one. It's something to think about. I use one of the 3" belts with my Workmans Utilikilt.

**GMan** · 30th December 05, 04:48 PM

I like that Phil. Great picture and a follow through of a great idea.

**michael steinrok** · 30th December 05, 04:54 PM

Creativity Carries The Day Again Nice Job

**Sherry** · 30th December 05, 07:12 PM

Great idea, Phil. It turned out well.

**Sir Robert** · 31st December 05, 06:05 AM

What I did was take the raw pink leather belt and used brown shoe polish which has some pigment in it thus giving me a lighter brown than you have. The color soaks in in differant rates in differant spots on the leather giving me a "distressed" look to my belt so that new it apears quite old.

If you want a smooth color use a leather dye and "Neutrial" shoe polish.

Another 3 inch wide belt is the military pistol belt, the old cotton ones can be dyed any color in the rainbow and the brass can be polished to a near chrome color. New pistol belts can be bought like that.

**mbhandy** · 31st December 05, 01:35 PM

fantastic Idea and follow thru. I saw a real thin belt at Wally World (WalMart)
but they only have it in a size 34 I was told after the New Year They would be getting in some Larger belts 8-) but I wont hold my breath :rolleyes:

MrBill

**Abax** · 16th January 07, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by pdcorlis

the guy at the shoe repair place said the polish seals the leather - so the dye won't rub off. It also puts a shine on the belt, otherwise it looks dull.

When I made my sporran belt, I had the same problem of dye rubbing off. So I polished it with "neutral" shoe polish I got at the local shoe repair. This stuff looks like regular shoe polish (comes in a tin), but it has no coloring added to it. I figured it might have a better chance of not staining my kilt. No problems after 3 or 4 weeks of wear. I'm glad to hear that polish is the recommended solution.

Abax