Making a Simple Leather Belt: Tools, Hardware, and Workflow
Making a leather belt requires firm vegetable-tanned leather at 3–4mm, a buckle matched to the strap width, and core skills: cutting, edge finishing, hole punching, and stitching. The key sequence is cut the strap, pre-finish the long edges before assembly, cut the buckle tongue slot, attach and stitch the buckle fold, punch the adjustment holes at even spacing, and add a keeper loop. Finishing the edges before the buckle is attached saves significant time and effort.