Wanted: 1 inch webbing buckles.

[maple_leaf_eh]

I did a Google Image Search. Some sellers are calling that a 1" cinch lock buckle. Yes, you want a proper match, but if Beechwood is selling new canvas their supplier might also be in plain sight.

[Mike Cecil]

McMaster-Carr (my 'go-to' source for fasteners) have them:

https://www.mcmaster.com/webbing-buckles

They call them a 'slide bar' buckle. Available only as Nickel Plated from that source.

Mike

[Alex van de Wetering]

Ian,

A guy here in Holland is selling these:

https://www.generaaltjes.nl/Adverten...p-webbing-riem

size not defined.....might not be as fancy as the originals(?)

Alex

[Mike K]

I have on loan a Willy's top with those lower type buckles, they appear to be made from bent wire, not cast. A skilled toolmaker could make the jig and dies for reproduction . The late ww2 style buckles are available from wee bee canvas ,

[Ian Fawbert]

Thanks all for the offers and links.

Mike C- thank you for the suggestion and generous offer, but I shall keep hunting the cast originals. My current canvas top has the stamped type like Beechwood and Weebee sell (it's a Weebee top).There is a vast difference between the repro ones which mimic the late MB/GPW shape from these vendors and these original earlier ones. I`ll investigate what McMaster Carr is selling though!

maple_leaf_eh: Thanks too. i`l do some digging under that different search term which I hadn't used before.

Alex. Thank you too. I`ll follow up the vendor and see if they have the style i`m chasing!

Mike K- I had always called them wire buckles, but a few of them do have some casting marks on them, but i have also seen some which look very much like wire! Perhaps bending them up from wire and stripping reproduction ones for their stamped tooth slider is an option.... Hmmm!!! I`ll have a play as that might be an option for the 'wire' (lower in above picture) style.

Its been several years since I started looking. They turn up in dribs and drabs, one or two at a time... slow and steady!

Cheers all and thanks again,
Ian.

[B. Harris]

Will these work?
Straps are 1" wide by 20 1/2" long, unsewn.

[Ian Fawbert]

Hello Brian,

I`m sorry I never replied. I only just saw this post again.

Those straps, as brilliant as they are have a different buckle. They are using the later war/post war stamped buckle. Same basic design, but different manufacture.

Only after about 3 of the squared and 5 of the round/wire type now... getting closer!

Thanks again,
Ian.