03-09-2008, 02:59 PM
Quote:Secondly the leather backing will not cover the hook area on mine, but if it would, I also would say you don't want those rivets come through the leather and thus want to have attached them before the leather backing is added to the belt.
OK, for the hooks it's understandable. But nonetheless you want to sew the leather on, for that you need holes and it's easier to sew it on through holes drilled through leather - metal - leather. I can imagine that it must be too hard with the awl to find the hole in the leather because they should be matching. With drilling the holes through all those layers you don't need the awl to do the holes in the leather.
