Kylo Ren: Belt WIP & Guide

Hey guys thought i;d share my work on the belt as well as making it a short guide for the leather uninitiated

this is the schematic i'l be working too the dimensions are all extrapolated from my Buckle build of 5 inch height:



anyway I spent a while in the leather shop today to find the right hide the guys in my local shop are always super helpful and pointed me towards this split hide i like it as it's nice flat and heavy

here is it next to my buckle and 2 3/8th straps which are too bIg currently, so using my stap cutter i dropped them down to 1/2 inch to match the exhibit:


(old on the top new on the bottom)

the next step was to cut my stitch groove with a groove cutter, set to 1/4 of an inch:


result:



i did the same to the base belt leather so i can line my sitches up and ensure the streap is in perfect simetry with the edge


all the grooves cut:


next i used a 6 stich per inch pin wheel to mark my holes on the outer and main belt leather:

and a little preview of the stitch wheel marks i'll sew this up tomorrow and add more information

 

Another brilliant thread of yours to subscribe to

 

Wow!!!... Fantastic Luke!... You truly are a man of many talents and many trades!... Thanks for showing us all how you are accomplishing this.... Can't wait to see all of it together!

 

So until i find the saber clip i just printed mine for now i will release the file after i check it on a saber ^^:





excuse the half finished belt sewing haven't had time/been slacking so haven't finished sewing the belt haha it took my 3 hours to sew one strip on ! i'll post the process of that for educational purposes later today. good things come to those who wait and all that

Original:



on reflection i can see how to improve my mesh the baseplate needs to be wider if I use the M3 Hex countersunk screws as a reference i need to increase the base width by about 10mm each side and also improve the countersunk depth slightly for a flush fit

 

That will be awsome =)

I do an comparaison picture even the belt is 127mm height.


The Blue Part is taller than your.
and I think there are M2.5 Hex not M3.

PDF A4 fullsize (vectorial) [Downloadable]

 

I agree I'll factor this into tonight's revision good idea RE M2.5 also !

 

Updated:

Version 1.00 will be ready soon

 

Very NICE!:thumbsup

 

Updated to include Video Link also here are some shots of the new modded mesh:



it will be available to download shortly:

 

Maybe this can help you :

I started to build 3D shape from picture with "Match Photo" tool (Sketchup).

This is the result :


I Used AutoCAD to scale it good. and transform to have a good dimention (i.e. 12 not 11.9015246)
well this is the Result:

And the Pdf version:
LINK

 

nice work I knew I forgot something (to make it wider)

also FYI i think the bottom two holes can be flat on your drawing as I feel these are probably rivets due to the mangled nature of the head haha

 

Updated:
https://www.shapeways.com/model/upload-and-buy/3451496

i have a slightly wider channel than you as i've kept the bar on the saber as a standard 1/4 inch and put the channel a tad wider for clearance thanks for the additional annotation !

 

Version 2.0 in the flesh:

 

Looks GREAT!:thumbsup

 

Awesome work. Will you be offering the leather belts as well?

 

Unfortunately this is not something i'm currently looking at as it is very labor intensive and i am but one man ! haha

 

Time to engage my local leather folks to see what they can come up with!

 

I'll happily offer my finished template/guide to all once it's finished

 

Sounds GREAT to me! Please share the type/weight of leather with us that you used. Also, are you going to do a run on the saber clip? If not, how do I go about getting one based on your design? Thanks for the help/info. Your belt & saber clip look GREAT!cool

 

Shapeways link doesn't work, belt looks great and the clip is awesome!

 

fixed:

https://www.shapeways.com/product/8...elt-clip?key=8972407f397eade5e4178d59ef982c97

 

Thanks !!

 

my hands are killing me but after 3 hours prepping cutting grooving & Stitching the belt is progressing, finished sewing the edging strip today PHEW

 

Did a little bit of buckle weathering this evening using an exacto blade scraping the surface matching the damage on the exhibit buckle and marking with a pencil


(ref) http://upload.dinhosting.fr/7/D/H/Kylo-Ren-Boucle-De-Ceinture-Details.png



I then used a tapping technique with various steel object rapidly across the surface to add extra grit to the surface to match the battle damaged look of the buckle in the exhibit:

Untouched cast on the left, Weathered on the right (on a failed/reject cast, ignore corners/bubbles), i'll give thisd a light run with some 1000 gritt sand paper tomorrow to take of some of the high spots my poking has left ^^

 

This is really looking GREAT!!! It's starting to come together VERY NICELY!!! LOVE IT!!!:thumbsup

 

A really cool accurate buckle !
close perfection. Love it too.

 

are the leather belts for sale?

 

Currently no it would take to much time as I had to hand sew this

 

ok thanks.

 

As Sni9er stated that he's not planning to sell those, I think I can post this without causing any harm to his amazing job.

If you don't have the materials to make the leather belt yourself, a good tip is to go to a saddler. For them it's a rather easy job. A belt like this in Switzerland (a crazy expansive country, it might cheaper in the US) without the buckle should cost me approx the equivalent of 50-70 dollars, hand maid. The leather I usually pick for stuff like that is 3mm thick, which is thicker than a standard Levi's belt. I never had any problem with those.

 

I"m going to a local leather maker tomorrow to talk to them about making these in a small quantity to sell.

Thank you to Sni9er; for all the great work he put into this and laying the ground work.

 

No worries I will update my diagram to display how the Velcro closure can be sewn in to the belt

hand sewn this is a slow arduous job but easy for a professional!

 

That clip model looks great! Thanks for saving me the work of scaling and modeling by sharing it. lol Any chance you could put up the saber side of the clip to go with it?

 

I was going to ask the same thing! I think a 3D printed clip could hold up to minimal use ok until a metal alternative is available.

 

Absolutely I'll upload that later this evening
Sorry about that Folks!

 

Have you considered offering the belt clip parts in metal on shapeways?

 

I think there is definitely interest in a saber clip. I for one would without a doubt be interested. Watching this closely.

 

Fantastic looking belt Luke
I'm hoping to work on mine soon, I need to find the correct leather. I'm wondering how to go about doing those creases on the strips of leather. I would imagine if rolling them backwards could do something to get a close effect lol. Its a neat little detail!

 

Yes rolling back a nice tanned leather will give this effect i think also it will be very subtle from use

 

Any way you would possibly be able to provide the leather strips for us to assemble ourselves? Having trouble finding a 5" wide leather strip lol.

 

Youl need to buy I from a leather wholesaler they will easily provide this

 

Any word on the saber clip? This is one of those elusive little pieces that I haven't been able to track down. A metal male and female set would save a lot of people's days!

 

I'm pretty sure the clip is custom, too. Could be wrong, though!
Sni9er has a clip and holder(?) on his shapeways page.

 

Yep hot them both also few metal versions in progress!

 

WTB functional metal one

 

I second this

 

Sni9er;

I'm sure you're already on this, but I think a good target price for a functional clip would be in the $30 range, I wonder if it's possible to get it to this target in a milled/cast part. I imagine it can be in aluminium to keep costs down I just don't know how robust the moving clip will be after a bit of use. Well, all about the quality of aluminium I'm thinking.

 

A machine shop is working me up a price for 50 off I think $30 may not be achievable in such small numbers but we will see

 

Yeah, all about volume. How many are you asking about to get this ball park price? I know kylo is popular but you have to be realistic so you're not too deep invested where you'll have to sit on an item for a year or more to recover the value.

If you need someone to split some costs I might be up kick in, would be worth it to get these out at a good price.

I know when I get my pipes machined it's a huge difference in price when I order 50 vs 20, by about half.

 

Such a simple method of making a straight line engraving in leather...so much better than the "clamp the metal ruler to the leather" guide method I used!