Opinions on Balteus

[rusty myers]

I have one of the red leather originals and one of the new ones, and the new one is totally redone. The terminals are properly attached (and are actually danglies as opposed to the original things that were directly attached), and the belt plates are much better in punch detail, as well as rounded non-cutting edges, Matt's review is one of the old ones I think, which had modern rivets and buckels, chrome tanned leather, and was terrible. Why they used the same part number is beyond me. The old ones we had we have torn down for parts use, as these are so much better. Only questionable thing is the way the little plates are used instead of round terminal discs. Any ideas on that Matt? In fairness it is my site, so apply what bias you want, but these are not the same terrible ones they originally made, if you want to critique them, do it on the new belts.<br>
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New 3868<br>
Natural tanned leather (not folded, 1 ply)<br>
Brass plates nicely detailed and rounded<br>
Pugio Frogs<br>
Proper buckle<br>
Proper terminal danglies<br>
Terminals are also natural leather<br>
Questionable rivetted discs<br>
All proper rivets<br>
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old 3868<br>
red chrome tanned leather<br>
brass plates faint and tended to cut wearer<br>
no pugio frogs<br>
modern buckle<br>
bad terminal enfds (they did not even dangle)<br>
Terminals also red chrome leather<br>
questionable rivetted discs<br>
modern rivets<br>
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I think I have one of each still around here, I will try to post a comparison pic or three... <p></p><i></i>