How to Add Holes to a Belt

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Debrah, and I'm at Deluxe, a resale fashion boutique, in Eugene, Oregon, and today, I'm going to show you how to add holes to a belt, so what you'll need to do first, is put the belt on, and find out where you would like your new hole, by sticking this through and then putting the little tongue, where you think you would like to align it, and then what you can do, is take a marker of some sort, with some kind of a different color ink, and while it's on you, you can mark it, but I'm just going to take it off, and then try to center it, in the middle, just a little dot, to show you where you're going to be punching the hole, and then if it's really a huge different area, that you need to punch it, like if you were going to punch it here, I usually add, kind of space it evenly, and put another hole in between, so it looks congruent with all the other holes, so what I'm going to use today, is this rotary hole punch. These are kind of expensive. You may not have one. In an emergency, I've used a drill, and I've also used an icepick. I put it on a piece of wood, and you can put it in the center of the hole, and then just keep rotating it, until it goes through, and then you do the other side, where it comes through, to make it big on both sides.You can use a hammer, and a single hole punch, on a block of wood, and what I've done, is I've gotten this rotary hand punch,so I've got my hole marked, and now I'm going to punch the hole, with this rotary punch, by lining it up. Make sure it's centered side to side, so it looks nice and even, and then you just squeeze it, and then rotate the belt a little bit, and that's how you add holes to a belt."