The Scott Oak Bark Harness Leather Belt

We've developed this belt with a very specific set of design criteria in mind for quite an unusual set of circumstances, however the end result is a belt of exceptional quality, character and durability suitable for anyone looking a substantial belt.  Our design goal was to make a belt for the gentleman traveller, someone whose journeys encompass both civilization with all its demands and the seriously uncivilized, with an entirely different and rather more arduous set of requirements. As such we have christened this belt The Scott, after Robert Falcon Scott, perhaps one of the greatest of the gentleman travellers, explorers and scientists of the 20th century.

What we wanted this belt to be was;

• Most importantly - a faithful friend, supportive, comfortable and able to be the only belt of a wardrobe where necessary.
  
• Able to withstand prodigious abuse from weather, use and time
• Strong enough to provide support and carry weight in the form of a knife, holster etc if needed.
  
• Able to achieve all of this without looking crude or like a work belt, we wanted the finished article to be as tactile and as aesthetically pleasing as any of our other belts.

We've been searching for the right leather to achieve this disparate set of goals for a long time and have finally found it in the form of Bakers of Colyton Oak Bark Tanned 5mm Harness leather. We have used harness rather than our normal bridle leather to achieve the weight and density of leather we wanted and the extra grease stuffed into the fibres of the leather in the finishing process. This has a number of benefits for the belt, most notably extra tensile strength, greater weather and neglect resistance and a greater flexibility to offset the added thickness necessary for strength. Harness leather like this would typically be used in high-stress applications in the saddlery trade like stirrup leathers or harness traces where failure of the leather can be life threateningly dangerous, so this is the perfect leather for our application where failure of the belt in a far flung part of the world would be unnacceptable.

The Oak Bark tanning and hand aniline colouring used for this leather produces a genuinely beautiful and hugely characterful, naturally slightly variegated leather that shows the grain, marks and scars of the skin and will continue to improve with age and use. The grease used in the finishing process helps makes what from another tanner would be a stiff and rather wooden belt, into a pleasure to wear and the tanners art locks the grease into the core of the leather, keeping the outside clean and grease free to touch. We have chosen a warm walnut brown as the most versatile colour that compliments both the nature of the belt and the wardrobe most likely to be worn with it. As much as this belt has been designed for hard use the leather is in no way crude or utilitarian and will certainly not disappoint the lover of great leather. 

The Scott is available with a number of different styles of buckle, all of which are specifically chosen for their suitability for this weight of leather and for use in rugged and challenging environments whilst retaining the elegance of design to be expected of the classical English buckle.

Each belt is made to measure for you and will come with 7 holes, giving you 6 inches of adjustment. Please see our measuring guide to help ensure you select the correct size  - in common with our other heavier weight belts we'd reccomend you add an extra 1/2" to the selected size though and offer the belt in 1/2" increments to help you get the size just right. Should you need a hand with sizing, a different hole layout etc we are more than happy to help, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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