Belt Buckles?

Minnesota scroller · #1 01-06-2007, 12:16 PM

Has anybody tried carving and selling belt buckles? As you can tell by my handle, I'm not a carver, I'm a scroller. I could scroll some real nice buckles but am not getting a lot of feedback on the scroll saw forum. This site has more members so I thought maybe someone has attempted this.

Thanks

Thomp · #2 01-07-2007, 12:12 PM

made a few in jr. high school from silver turquoise but that was a hundred years ago
is it possible for wood to hold up to the torcher? one snap and ?? hello pantsless

Minnesota scroller · #3 01-07-2007, 12:16 PM

A hundred years ago? Wow, you're a lot older than you look.

Workin For Wood suggested small metal corners. If I could find some small enough I believe those would be enough protection. My question is, do many men still wear them? Would they be marketable?

Thomp · #4 01-07-2007, 12:46 PM

pictures are deceiving and old as well,,,

well most folks say back in school, but i was one of them in the dark ages that walked 7 miles uphill both ways to school in ice barefoot.. only when my dinosaur was sick...
remembering back on it seams just like yesterday B&W TV and watching the radio....

George Carlin once said, "if somebody nails together two anythings some other smuck will come along and buy it"!

i believe he was referring to NYC street vendors though...

yep men still wear belts I do, but most of us baby boomers hide them under our easy living overhang...

now, im thinking corian, but if a buckle could be made as so it didnt bite your belly, there might be a market for it but i wouldn't open a buckles-r-us booth only.. make a few and try them as a sideline with some intarsia and segments, sand burnings, pyrography etc..

recently at a festival here i was surprised to find only 2 booths selling wooden craft, and some over priced work at that, $450.-- for an intarsia sail boat maybe 25 segments 12x24", nicely done but that feller thought he was in califorina or somewhere there was lots of money..

Tom H · #5 01-07-2007, 03:39 PM

Belt buckles out of wood? The thought occured to me that the problem of wood being weak, especially under the stress that most belts are, could be overcome by laminating the wood to a metal backing. Flat or curved metal belt buckel backs are available because I have one with a polished stone on it. The wood could be scrolled and/or carved and glued to the backing.. Tom H

Gergie · #6 01-07-2007, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Minnesota scroller

Has anybody tried carving and selling belt buckles? As you can tell by my handle, I'm not a carver, I'm a scroller. I could scroll some real nice buckles but am not getting a lot of feedback on the scroll saw forum. This site has more members so I thought maybe someone has attempted this.

Thanks

Hey Buddy, I got your e-mail the other day about this and have done some thinking. The other responses are accurate about them not being able to hold up. I saw a leather buckle with a flint carved eagle in the center on it at our local museum. That was a cool looking buckle.

You would also have to have limited detail, because if you rubbed up against something it could break. A metal or leather backing would be the way to go.