03-10-2008, 08:16 PM
Quote:I'd be careful about that as an awl would cause less damage to the leather itself (something to do with the grain I believe). What you could do is clip the leather on and make holes in the leather using the awl through the other side of the brass. Once that's done, you can stitch on the leather using the awl again through the pre-made holes.
If you look at the picture Caivs Molinarius Blandus has posted you will see that there has been no damage been done by drilling through the three layers (i.e. leather-metal-leather). I have done my belt the same way as you also could see in this thread:
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... ht=#181415
This shows our two belts and if you enlarge the pic you will notice no damage done to the leather.
