Baldric Tutorial

[capt.J.j.sparrow]

anybody got one? My material from Mojo should arrive tomorrow and I want to start asap!

[Mojo Turbo]

well you also need the piping or siding material as well. You need this for the sides and backing to give it strength. What are you going to use? Jack of All Trades uses real leather.

[Capn_Jack_Savvy]

Materials needed:
- Metal "L" ruler for creating very straight lines
- Cardboard for creating a template before cutting your master material
- Ruler for measuring length
- Very sharp leather scissors. Don't cut paper with them
- Barge glue ---- Lots
- Paper clamps lined with leather so you don't create permanent indentations into your leather / vinyl material
- Leather belt blank to glue vinyl material too
- Leather frog
- Baldric buckle
- Leather punch
- Faux waxed sinew if sewing by hand
- Leather hole punch if sewing by hand
- Leather grade needles if sewing by hand....get more than one because you will snap the needles

- 1 to 1 1/2 ounce leather for the French Edging
1. Cut out your cardboard or poster board paper template first. This way you can measure the correct lengths for the belt piece. Adjust the length as needed with your costume on. Remember you can always readjust by adding more hole punches to the belt.

To be continued when I have some time...

[capt.J.j.sparrow]

well you also need the piping or siding material as well. You need this for the sides and backing to give it strength. What are you going to use? Jack of All Trades uses real leather.

I bought some brown pleather at joann's for like $6.00

[liarr]

I bought some brown pleather at joann's for like $6.00

that...may not hold. Are you creating a base out of a belt or something?

[capt.J.j.sparrow]

yea I bought 2 belts for the base and I have alot of barge glue. I may stitch it with my fiance's sewing machine.

[capt.J.j.sparrow]

the stinking thing is done finally, I need a new baldric buckle but alas they aren't cheap....... pics to follow soon

[capt.J.j.sparrow]

done

[Mojo Turbo]

that looks like a baldric....

[liarr]

did you document the process?

[adenry]

Looks nice. Any larger photos? Close ups?

Do you have any material left, the embossed stuff I mean? I want to make a baldric too...

[capt.J.j.sparrow]

Looks nice. Any larger photos? Close ups?

Do you have any material left, the embossed stuff I mean? I want to make a baldric too...

Enough i think for one more.

did you document the process?

I did a bit, I know each step.......not a lot of pics though.......my bad

[Captain McCool]

So is that the Empire buckle? It looks very good.

[capt.J.j.sparrow]

that looks like a baldric....

is it bad or something?

yea it's the empire buckle

[Captain McCool]

Heh, I think that was just Mojo's dry sense of humor not translating well to text. I read it as "looks like a baldric (and not, for instance, a lobster) so you must have done something right."

And yeah... I'm still of the opinion that Empire's buckles are better. The shape looks much more like the screen-used buckle. ACME's is too square in overall shape, and the points are too rounded off. That one looks really nice. Would you say it's a decent quality buckle? Decent weight, not too bendable, etc?

[capt.J.j.sparrow]

nice quality, it's got some girth to it but not a lot, very tough quality, much better than my costumebase crap...... and it was free. I mean seriously FREE!

[Captain McCool]

Free eh? How'd you manage that one?

And yeah, that sounds awesome. Definitely going to have to get one for myself.

[capt.J.j.sparrow]

I traded some hand made goods for it, so if you see a ZF or braids put up for sale by him they could be the one's I made.... I told him it was okay (this time)

[adenry]

Got one piece of the vinyl from capt.J.j.sparrow. Thanks mate! Very, very much!

Now, have anyone ever tried to dye/paint this vinyl somehow? The thing I don't like about many baldrics I've seen, including ACME's, is that the pattern is TOO VISIBLE. That's not how it is in the movies. If you look at the real baldric, the entire thing has one consistent color, no contrasty edges. All the edges of the tiny details of the vinyl are a brighter color, adding a lot of contrast, making the pattern quite prominent. So I actually want to hide those edges a bit by painting the whole thing.

So what kind of paitn should I use? Naturally I also don't want anything glossy, a mat color should look more like leather.

Suggestions?

[liarr]

shoe polish!

[Captain McCool]

Shoe polish would defnitely work on ACME's all-leather baldric, but I'm not sure about the vinyl.

[adenry]

Well, I ended up using acrylics and sandpaper. Worked like a charm, I'm happy with the results. Posted pics of my baldric here:
https://brethrencourt.rpg-board.net/t391-captain-jack-in-bulgaria#8100

[Jack Is Back]

Looks nice. Any larger photos? Close ups?

Do you have any material left, the embossed stuff I mean? I want to make a baldric too...

Enough i think for one more.

did you document the process?

I did a bit, I know each step.......not a lot of pics though.......my bad

I wondered if you cover the entire width of the belt with the vinyl, then edged the belt for the french edge stitching (over the vinyl) or,
put vinyl on belt allowing a gap either side for the stitching channel to turn over the edge?

Thanks
Jack Is Back

[adenry]

I wondered if you cover the entire width of the belt with the vinyl, then edged the belt for the french edge stitching (over the vinyl) or,
put vinyl on belt allowing a gap either side for the stitching channel to turn over the edge?

Thanks
Jack Is Back

Cover the entire width and stitch the edging over the vinyl. It just won't look good otherwise.

[Jack Is Back]

Materials needed:
- Metal "L" ruler for creating very straight lines
- Cardboard for creating a template before cutting your master material
- Ruler for measuring length
- Very sharp leather scissors. Don't cut paper with them
- Barge glue ---- Lots
- Paper clamps lined with leather so you don't create permanent indentations into your leather / vinyl material
- Leather belt blank to glue vinyl material too
- Leather frog
- Baldric buckle
- Leather punch
- Faux waxed sinew if sewing by hand
- Leather hole punch if sewing by hand
- Leather grade needles if sewing by hand....get more than one because you will snap the needles

- 1 to 1 1/2 ounce leather for the French Edging
1. Cut out your cardboard or poster board paper template first. This way you can measure the correct lengths for the belt piece. Adjust the length as needed with your costume on. Remember you can always readjust by adding more hole punches to the belt.

To be continued when I have some time...

Hello Mate!

I just wondered what the preference was for the Jacks who have made their own baldric,
at the buckle end. . . Chicago Screws or stitching?

I will see what space I have after I skive the back.

Can ye skive under the command of a Pirate. . . Or can ye not!

Jack Is Back

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