How to make a leather belt for a photograph camera

In this tutorial, we want to introduce to you in how to make a leather belt for a photograph camera, with this, you are going to be able of making it as you like and by the easiest way to do it.

Before start to instruct you step by step, you must know what material and tools you are going to need, to elaborate your own leather belt..

Materials or consumables

• A piece of leather
• Foam
• Rivets for leather.
• Saddler thread.
• Judean bitumen (already mixed).
• Contac glue.
• Belt clip.
• Rivets for leather.

Miscellaneus

• Pen.
• Squad.
• Swab wool.
• Thin paintbrush.
• Thin sandpaper.
• Hammer or rolling pin.
• Paper hole punch.
• Lighter.
• Scissor.
• Rounded top saddler needle (2 units).
• Latex gloves.
• Cleaning blanket.

Tools to work on leather

• Sharp cutter or strip cutter.
• Marker with adjustable lines.
• Thin fork with 6 teeth for doing holes over the leather.
• Thin fork with 2 teeth for doing holes over the leather.
• Tool to make grooves.
• Leather trimmer.
• Edge polisher for leather.

Procedure to make a leather belt for a photograph camera.

With the materials and tools necessary to do the job next to the hands, only left to follow the step by step procedure to elaborate leather belt for photograph camera:

1. We take the leather piece to take measures using the pen and squad on the transposed section in order marking the material. You must to mark two centimeters line of length over the extension of the piece (throughout it) and then, a line to do the triangle form on each edge. This is going to be the widest piece of leather which will lie on our neck.
2. Then, do the cut on the marked zone to take out the shape. Is necessary do these procedure en two pieces of leather with the same measures.
3. Take another piece, this time more longer (approach to 0.5 meters of length) for the section of the belt, mark it 1.5 centimeters throughout her, using the adjustable line market. You must to elaborate four strips with this measure, because you must to unify them as a couple with seam once you reached the moment. Use the circular cutter or cut one strip and use the rule as a guidance to make your cuts. Is recommended to use a piece of vegetable leather or thin veal in this case, in order to obtain some elasticity.
4. Now is necessary to age the leather pieces that you have cut with Judean bitumen, applying it in a massive way with the swap wool (use the latex gloves to avoid stains). You can see the preparation of the Judean bitumen mixture here. Remove the excess with a cleaning rag, brush and polish it well until leaving it only to dye.
5. After that, apply the contact glue to all the leathers pieces of the belt (thin stripes) using a softy paintbrush and joining it as a couple with carefully for only leaving just a couple. Let it to dry completely.

• Take foam or an eve rubber to mark it with a pen, using as a mold the widest piece of leather. In this way, is necessary to cut the foam for leaving it smaller than the piece of leather which you take out the measure from.
• Once finally the cuts, apply the contact glue both in the inside part of the widest piece of leather and in one of the foam sides to put it in the central part, then apply the contact glue on the other side. At this point you shall going to assembling each part of the leather belt for the photograph camera, joining the thinner and thicker pieces of leather that you already have cut as it is showed in the following figure.

• Stick each side of the widest piece of leather with carefully, trying to leave it as closed as possible. Use a hammer or a roller and apply some pressure strength over the piece of leather edges.
• Cut the piece of leather widest edges in order to leave then more straight with the circular cutter or strip cutter.
• Then with the adjustable lines marker, take the clip measure of the photograph camera belt, to mark two lines around 4 to 5 centimeters of length on each piece of leather edges cut by you on the prior point.

1. Make two thin holes with the paper hole punch, on each edge of the neck strip that you have left intact after the cut. The holes must be done according to the rivet that you are going to put. You need to overlap both piece of leather edges, and use the one with holes which allow to mark the others edges to be punched (you can assure the same measure between the holes with this procedure).
2. With the marker with adjustable lines, you must mark where is going to be the seam over all the edge of the piece in assemble, approximately around 3 millimeters from the edge.
3. Through the using of the thin 6 teeth fork and a hammer, you are going to make the holes following the marked line. On each piece of leather edge specifically the neck part of the belt, use the 2 teeth fork to make two perpendicular holes (this part must be seamless).

1. Well then, with the saddler nail with rounded top and the saddler thread as well, you must make the seam with two nails, following the path that you have been making on the belt of leather with holes. After cutting the saddler thread and doing the knot, use the lighter to burn it from the seam until let it sealed.
2. Then, you could use the tool to make grooves for leather, and give it a better appearance after cutting in angles the corners of edges on the piece of leather.
3. Use the leather trimmer to thin the edge or the excess of the piece of leather borders.
4. With the thin sandpaper, you can completely smooth the edge of assembled piece of leather. Then use the edge polisher to give it a better appearance.
5. Apply a second lay of Judean bitumen, using the same procedure prior applied in order to obtain a darker belt of leather.
6. We mark the holes that you must make at all the strip of leather from the belt, bending the excess on the corners which have two holes that you already got, to determinate the same distance and size of the holes that you are going to make at both sides of the belt.

• Finally we put the rivets on the holes that we already made and the clip of the belt on the edges. And it is done, you finally has a leather belt for a photograph camera.

Conclusion

As you can see, make a leather belt for a photograph camera is not so difficult task at all. You must to dispose of all the materials and tools which make you an easier job.

Some skills and training are necessary to sharp a little bet your dexterity and optimize your work time, but beside of this, there is nothing more to do.

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