The Marquise Shape.

[Dennis]

When one of my dedicated shoppers came home with a new dress, I was told that all it needed now was a slim belt, so the leather strap I used was only 24mm wide.

This marquise shaped buckle was quite simple to construct from two arcs of square wire and once the ends were soldered, I had the option of fine tuning the space by inserting an oval mandrel to open it, or in this case of reducing it by squeezing in my fibre jaw vice.

Finally it was slightly swaged on a large bangle mandrel and completed by adding an offset cross bar and a hard drawn prong. Dennis.