Looks real good. Try some leather sting/thread to tie the bells to the belt. One knot inside the bell and one knot on the back side of the belt, maybe.
A friend of mine who’s a professional leather worker builds the Xmas bell straps for Lee Valley($80 Canadian). He’s made a few thousand of them. James uses rivets and has 6 pneumatic rivet guns mounted to bike handlebar stems so he can do all the bells in one go. I think the trick is spec’ing the right size rivet. It looks like your rivet tubes were too long. Ideally you want to place a washer on the bell side. That way you’re compressing the washer against the bell. I recall sourcing the bells was not easy. I think he gave up and bought bells from China. Probably made with tooling from the US, lol.
@@chrisginottawa ugg, probably, lol. That sounds like a cool setup. Would have loved to see a video on that. Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll be trying it again because I bought quite a few bells so no turning back now! Thanks for watching and taking the time to write.
What you made is normally called a sleigh bell door knocker. Hate to say it, but low quality bells have a hole in the back, rather than the slot you can run leather lace through. About the only way to tie those down, is to use a knot with leather lace. If you end up wanting quality sleigh bells, Weaver is about the only one I know of that sells them. When you see the price, you will rethink a door knocker as a gift. Not hard to have $100 in bells. Weaver does have a sale on them though before the holiday if you end up wanting to make a nicer door knocker.
@@jamesw.3491 Pretty sure the Weaver Box was behind me in the video so I just dug through my paperwork and I did get the bells from Weaver. Item 0015-BP-1 1/2. 40 bells @ $1.70ea. Well that’s disappointing 😫. Maybe they had the other type too. I’ll have to check the website. I watched a couple of videos and they had the slot type. That looks like a better way to connect. Next time! Thank you for the suggestion and enjoy your holiday.
@@brillonleather The #120 bells are what is usually used. Most people would use a variety of sizes because each size has it's own tone. Some would start at a 2 or 2 1/4 and work down. 2" bells are about 20 bucks a piece. At the expense it makes it hard to make them ahead to sell them, unless you KNOW people are willing to pay a few hundred dollars each for door knockers. The 120's are the best and nicest bells.
@@jamesw.3491 I didn’t know that. Thank you for the explanation. I’m curious now and will have to try again! Maybe just a set for the house for next year.
Any ideas on ways to attach these bells are welcome!
Beautiful ❤
Thank you!
Looks real good. Try some leather sting/thread to tie the bells to the belt. One knot inside the bell and one knot on the back side of the belt, maybe.
Was never a Boy Scout. I know one knot, lol, but maybe worth a try!
This is the way I do it, Works great!
@@Tx_rickjames Gonna give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion!
A friend of mine who’s a professional leather worker builds the Xmas bell straps for Lee Valley($80 Canadian). He’s made a few thousand of them. James uses rivets and has 6 pneumatic rivet guns mounted to bike handlebar stems so he can do all the bells in one go. I think the trick is spec’ing the right size rivet. It looks like your rivet tubes were too long. Ideally you want to place a washer on the bell side. That way you’re compressing the washer against the bell. I recall sourcing the bells was not easy. I think he gave up and bought bells from China. Probably made with tooling from the US, lol.
@@chrisginottawa ugg, probably, lol. That sounds like a cool setup. Would have loved to see a video on that. Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll be trying it again because I bought quite a few bells so no turning back now! Thanks for watching and taking the time to write.
14:36 😂😂😂😂😂
Got to keep it PG!
What you made is normally called a sleigh bell door knocker. Hate to say it, but low quality bells have a hole in the back, rather than the slot you can run leather lace through. About the only way to tie those down, is to use a knot with leather lace. If you end up wanting quality sleigh bells, Weaver is about the only one I know of that sells them. When you see the price, you will rethink a door knocker as a gift. Not hard to have $100 in bells. Weaver does have a sale on them though before the holiday if you end up wanting to make a nicer door knocker.
@@jamesw.3491 Pretty sure the Weaver Box was behind me in the video so I just dug through my paperwork and I did get the bells from Weaver. Item 0015-BP-1 1/2. 40 bells @ $1.70ea. Well that’s disappointing 😫. Maybe they had the other type too. I’ll have to check the website. I watched a couple of videos and they had the slot type. That looks like a better way to connect. Next time! Thank you for the suggestion and enjoy your holiday.
@@brillonleather The #120 bells are what is usually used. Most people would use a variety of sizes because each size has it's own tone. Some would start at a 2 or 2 1/4 and work down. 2" bells are about 20 bucks a piece. At the expense it makes it hard to make them ahead to sell them, unless you KNOW people are willing to pay a few hundred dollars each for door knockers. The 120's are the best and nicest bells.
@@jamesw.3491 I didn’t know that. Thank you for the explanation. I’m curious now and will have to try again! Maybe just a set for the house for next year.
@@jamesw.3491 That could be a rather expensive door knocker!
@@brillonleather lol. Told ya.
i love my sleigh bells !!!
@@luanne-k9w Was hoping you would like them🎅🏻