Belt buckle

Is that more of your welding rod art?

I would not call it art, but I have been welding filler rods for some time, making toy people for my kids, and such, and this belt buckle is also an example.

i

Love it. OA or TIG?

When your online buckle shows up, if you want to send me your shop-made one I'll nickle-plate it for you.

TIG. I would be delighted to pay the cost of plating. Thanks a lot Don. The only issue with plating, is that the buckle at this point is no longer removable:)

i

RCM only

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:16:59 -0500, the infamous Ignoramus16474 scrawled the following:

Damn, stacks of benjies all around and he's -still- too cheap to buy a real buckle.

Hey, Ig! Where's the chrome plating?

-- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

Actually, I bought two belts... But they have not even arrived yet...

I am not there yet...

I thought it was going to be fairly elaborate! One welder I knew took and chopped some stainless tubing scrap off at an angle, then ovalized it in a vise. He then filled it with stubs of various sized bronze and stainless rod in a pattern and fused it all together. Was about

2x3" when he got it done. Went over it with a grinder so it was slightly domed, then welded fittings for the belt onto the rear. He said all the welders on site had ones like it, was a brewery under maintenance, so plenty of scrap tubing to mess with.

Stan

On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:33:28 -0500, the infamous Ignoramus16474 scrawled the following:

Excuses, excuses...

Leave those nastyass chemicals to others. Chrome is a deadly process.

-- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

My home made belt buckle is a 3' Stanley tape measure held in a steel surround by Velcro. It not only helps hold my pants up, it is useful and gets a lot of comments.

You must have a tough time trying to prove that thing is really 10 inches, unless of course you made a custom tape too :)

You could always brush plate at least part of it. Caswell sells kits for the hobbysist.

"Leon Fisk" wrote: You must have a tough time trying to prove that thing is

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Me. to pretty girl stranger: "Would you like me to prove I have 10 inches?" She: "Get lost, creep." Money pent on fake tape measure--wasted.

Maybe that's "dog inches".

Snort! well at least you got to strike up a conversation, that's a lot farther than I get ;-)

I usually have to settle for the measure along the side of my Leatherman Tool/knife. It has proven to be useful, if I can remember it...

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:16:04 -0400, the infamous Leon Fisk scrawled the following:

Yabbut, doesn't the large scale (3-1/2" IIRC) tend to emasculate you by its longer presence, Leon?

-- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

Just curious,

How did you get the buckle back into the leather ? Did you have to re- stich it ? Or did you make and 'L' shape and then let it cool and weld farther away from the leather that way ? I'd really like to make one with some stainless rod. Cheers,

/FC...

It was the latter.

i

Nah, I never get that far...

Just use a chrome-rich alloy and electropolish it.

Cheers! Rich