Bushcraft Leather Belt Kit

by Mr.Sanchez in Craft > Leather

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Bushcraft Leather Belt Kit

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Badass stuff deserves Badass envelopment, right ? Well this is my low budget version of my Bushcraft Leather Belt Kit.

I really need where to carry my Camping Knife and my awesome Fire box and leather its the perfect material to do it. I really love the old and messy look that show my Bushcraft leather Kit.

Im not a Leather working expert so I let the pictures shows the whole process.

Gathering Old Leather and Making Tools.

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Letaher, nowadays has become a rare material to find. I found in my grannys home an old leather seat from an old chair and a pair of my son's leather shoes. Fair enough stuff to begin.

There are some leather working tools that I had to improvise with a broken bolt and a stainless steel fork.

The largest piece of leather have some 30 years so before start to work I soaked in warm water.

Leather Bottle Hanger.

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I improvised a Bottle hanger from an old pair of leather shoes.I disassamble the whole thing and started to imrovise stitching the pieces.

Knife Sheat.

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I used a large piece of leather for the knife sheat. I sanded the edges and glued them, then I did insert some rivets along the edge and for the belt hanger I cutted a piece of leather and a Bronze ring .

Hatchet Sheat.

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I did the same process before. Sand the edges, glued them and some rivets along.

Fire Box Sheat.

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The Fire Box Sheat was the hardest to build, because it needed stitches and riveting.I had to improvise a Hole pinches tool with a stainless fork and it worked just fine. The sheat was built with 5 pieces of leather.

The largest piece was a 15x40 cms. the two lateral sides of 3x12 cms, and the back strapples :3x8 cms.

Im not a Leather working expert so I let the pictures shows the whole process

Ready to Rock !

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I love how it looks in my belt. That rustic and messy style its just perfect.This is weight that I dont need in my bag when Im on the mountains. Now I have to prove it in the wild.

I hope you like this Ible if so let me know in the comments below and please share some love voting in the Leather Contest.