At our maritime leather shop in Nova Scotia, we custom craft full-grain leather belts for Canadians from coast to coast. Since we custom make all our leather belts to your order specifications, we can make any waist size from petite to plus size belts. There is an additional charge for tall belts (plus size belts) which we consider to be larger than a 44-inch waist size. Should you pick a larger size in your shopping cart, you will see the price alter immediately.
Hides are purchased in different ways, such as back, bends, shoulders etc. Most of our belts we cut from bends which is the best part of the hide. However, we can only get up to a 44-inch waist from this size hide so over size belts are cut from backs which is a much longer piece of leather. The back is the full length of the bend plus part of the shoulder for length. We do not cut belts from the belly or neck which is the poorest quality part of the hide. The underneath side of our belts are smooth and not fuzzy.
We make plain solid leather belts in long lengths in advance for customers that walk into our local leather shop. While our customer waits, we cut the belt to size and attach the buckle wanted. The most popular width of our full grain leather belts is 1 1/2 inches for casual wear and jeans. Narrower widths are more popular for dress belts.
Besides plain cowhide belts, we specialize in custom name belts. The imprinted names in the belts can be natural undyed, dyed in the same colour as the belt or hand painted a totally different colour. Many of our belts can also be decorated with different hardware such as our studded belts. Embossed design belts range from Celtic designs to horse and eagle imprints.
What makes our money belts unique is that we run the zipper as long as we can between the buckle and the holes. Many other places only put a short zipper in back. Also, the underneath side of the belt that holds the zipper is made of quality top grain leather as opposed to a fabric or manmade material.
We like to use solid brass buckles or chrome plated solid brass buckles for most of our belts due to their beauty and strength. These buckles will not break like the cheap white metal buckles used on mass produced belts in chain stores are known to do. If you want something fancier, we stock a large variety of novelty big buckles for belts.
Should you require an industrial leather belt for holding lots of tools, we make them from double thick leather for strength. It is sewn together with heavy harness thread on our harness stitching sewing machine. We use a harness roller buckle on this industrial waist belt for strength and functionality.
Over the many years of making belts since 1975, we have had requests for belts from people with nickel allergies. People that have severe nickel allergies have used our solid brass buckles and not had any reaction. If you have a nickel allergy, only order belts with our gold solid brass buckles. You must let us know you have a nickel allergy as we must either sew on the buckles or use special solid brass snaps as opposed to using our regular steel rivets or steel snaps. The regular steel rivets and steel snaps have nickel in them which would not work for you.
Learn about our solid full grain leather belts vs other belts and other leather terminology in the following informational belt video:
At our maritime leather shop in Nova Scotia, we custom craft full-grain leather belts for Canadians from coast to coast. Since we custom make all our leather belts to your order specifications, we can make any waist size from petite to plus size belts. There is an additional charge for tall belts (plus size belts) which we consider to be larger than a 44-inch waist size. Should you pick a larger size in your shopping cart, you will see the price alter immediately.
Hides are purchased in different ways, such as back, bends, shoulders etc. Most of our belts we cut from bends which is the best part of the hide. However, we can only get up to a 44-inch waist from this size hide so over size belts are cut from backs which is a much longer piece of leather. The back is the full length of the bend plus part of the shoulder for length. We do not cut belts from the belly or neck which is the poorest quality part of the hide. The underneath side of our belts are smooth and not fuzzy.
We make plain solid leather belts in long lengths in advance for customers that walk into our local leather shop. While our customer waits, we cut the belt to size and attach the buckle wanted. The most popular width of our full grain leather belts is 1 1/2 inches for casual wear and jeans. Narrower widths are more popular for dress belts.
Besides plain cowhide belts, we specialize in custom name belts. The imprinted names in the belts can be natural undyed, dyed in the same colour as the belt or hand painted a totally different colour. Many of our belts can also be decorated with different hardware such as our studded belts. Embossed design belts range from Celtic designs to horse and eagle imprints.
What makes our money belts unique is that we run the zipper as long as we can between the buckle and the holes. Many other places only put a short zipper in back. Also, the underneath side of the belt that holds the zipper is made of quality top grain leather as opposed to a fabric or manmade material.
We like to use solid brass buckles or chrome plated solid brass buckles for most of our belts due to their beauty and strength. These buckles will not break like the cheap white metal buckles used on mass produced belts in chain stores are known to do. If you want something fancier, we stock a large variety of novelty big buckles for belts.
Should you require an industrial leather belt for holding lots of tools, we make them from double thick leather for strength. It is sewn together with heavy harness thread on our harness stitching sewing machine. We use a harness roller buckle on this industrial waist belt for strength and functionality.
Over the many years of making belts since 1975, we have had requests for belts from people with nickel allergies. People that have severe nickel allergies have used our solid brass buckles and not had any reaction. If you have a nickel allergy, only order belts with our gold solid brass buckles. You must let us know you have a nickel allergy as we must either sew on the buckles or use special solid brass snaps as opposed to using our regular steel rivets or steel snaps. The regular steel rivets and steel snaps have nickel in them which would not work for you.
Learn about our solid full grain leather belts vs other belts and other leather terminology in the following informational belt video: