How to neatly make a hole in a leather belt

Buying belts and other accessories are fun, but sometimes frustrating. You come across a chic belt, and the length is excessively long, and it cannot be worn like this.

How to shorten a leather belt and make neat holes?
There are many tips on the internet. Craftsmen offer to disassemble the antenna from an old TV or radio receiver and choose a tube of a suitable diameter. Next, insert the antenna into an electric drill and drill a hole.

With this approach, the holes really turn out to be perfectly even, but a rare girl wants to do all this, and there may not be an old antenna at home, because not everyone is so thrifty to store a lot of old things. Therefore, you will have to give the belt to the workshop or do it a little easier.

If you want to shorten the belt with your own hands, buy a belt with a collapsible buckle, where it is enough to unscrew a special screw. Every girl can fit such a belt to her size. It is enough to make measurements, disassemble the buckle, cut off the excess from the belt and make a hole for the screw.

Someone is punching a hole with a nail or an awl. Some women's sites advise this way - to punch new holes in the belt with an awl or a nail! This is no good. The hole must be drilled with an electric drill. No pipes are required from old antennas, just take a sharp wood drill. The hole will turn out to be perfectly round, just the edges will not be perfectly smooth, like drilling with a pipe. Only completely smooth edges are not important to us, in any case the hole will be hidden.

I think everyone knows that an electric drill is a simple and affordable tool that should be in any home. At the same time, do not forget the safety precautions and take into account that the drill can wind our hair if they are near, and besides, it is important to put a wooden block of sufficient thickness so that during the drilling process it does not damage the floors or the table where we will drill our belt.

Even if there is no real man in your house, you must have an electric drill anyway. With the help of a drill, any woman can hang a new cornice, picture or panel, it is actually very simple and interesting.

This advice applies to collapsible belts, but there are models where the buckle is stitched or riveted. What to do in this case? The easiest way is to make additional holes in the belt. But this is not the best solution.

Even if you can make perfect holes, taking into account all indents and sizes, the belt will still remain long and its end will have to be wrapped around the waist, which is not very stylish and beautiful, but also visually adds volume. Therefore, it is better to give the stitched belt to the masters so that they rip the firmware, shorten the belt and then re-flash it.

In conclusion, it is important to note that most of the belts from fashion brands are stitched or made in such a way that it is impossible to shorten them without spoiling them at all.