Non Historical/Rendezvous/Range Belt Bag

[necchi]

Got tired of the Man Purse myself for the Rendezvous line shooting and woods walks.
I made this belt bag this winter after trading my shoulder bag with a member here.
The bag leather is 4-5oz Oil Tan from "The Leather Guy". Kieth an Tracy run the `vous cuircut and have a shop here in Minn.

The bag measures 6" wide x 7 1/2" wide with a 2" gusset.
Adorned with a tanned beaver tail that's stitched on.
The bottom of the gusset has a piece of 5oz Vegtan glued to the bottom to
keep it's width instead of collapsing around my gear, and one inside pocket.

The front outside has a pocket for my Ted Cash Riflemen's capper.

I haven't tried it at the range, I actually made the belt hoops so they could
detach at the bottom and allow for a shoulder strap to be attached.

!!* dang photo bucket!!

 

[BrownBear]

Great looking bag, and really fine workmanship. :thumbsup:

...I actually made the belt hoops so they could detach at the bottom and allow for a shoulder strap to be attached.

Any photos of that? Sounds like a great idea, and I'd like a little "inspiration" for how to do it myself. :grin:

 

[MSW]

that's a really nice looking pouch/bag thingie you've got there!

i especially like the gusset at the bottom ... i've often toyed with the idea of a really stiff bit at the bottom to keep the whole thing from slurping into itself and capturing all my gadgets.

i also ike the notion of putting straps onto it later - keep the option open ... as politicians sasy, "never say 'never' " ...

what's the size of it? i'm guessing about six inches wide and eight inches high, and about an inch or so deep?

again- great looking work!

:hatsoff:

 

[lonehunter]

Nice looking bag, Good work! :thumbsup:

 

[necchi]

I just left the belt loops a little long.
You can see the rectangle stitching for the top of the belt loops in the middle picture up top, then I folded'm over and made a single row stitch to accommodate my 2" belt (those are 1/2" marks on that paper).

Shaped the bottom of the belt loops a little and placed a single stitch to hold that last inch down. There's no glue on this one, the Oil Tan won't take it.

If it doesn't work as a belt bag, I can cut that single stitch, and the row of stitches and the belt loops become the leather attachment's for something like one of member Shortarms fancy hand woven straps, :wink:

MSW, it's 6" wide an 7 1/2 high x 2" gusset.

You can't really see it, (I guess that was the idea) but it took three different shades of thread to get that tail on there. I stitched only in the grain down and across near the edges and some in the middle to prevent any puckering.

 

[Spikebuck]

Very nice. I like it a lot.

I'm fortunate to live only 15 minutes from "The Leather Guy". They have a good selection of leathers, tools, and other neat stuff. http://www.theleatherguy.org/

 

[necchi]

Sweet!
I miss those guy's coming to the smaller vous, I used to love going through his "scrap" boxes.
With what he called scrap I built several bags-n-pouches.
He still has good prices and shipping with big enough pieces to do things with yet not break the bank buying a full half hide.
This one I did with 4 sq. ft. and still have some left.
I like how he's got his site layed out too, you see the exact measurement's (photo's with a tape measure) of the piece your buying, :thumbsup:

 

[MSW]

a ha!
now the lightbulb goes off...

nice bit of design!

 

[BrownBear]

What a great idea! Well done. :hatsoff: