Blacksmith Belt / Natural Veg Tan

HebTroCo

£225

Hand forged 304 stainless steel, paired with a 5-7mm thick, 40mm wide natural veg tanned leather strap from J FJ Bakers of Devon the most chunky ever. HebTroCo branded stainless steel keeper. Natural veg tanned leather is undyed and will darken and mark with wear and aging to produce a fantastic patina over time. Exclusive to HebTroCo by blacksmith and leather craftsman Alex Maughan. Each buckle is made by hand, tool and fire individually in his forge, before fixing it to the hand cut straps. One at a time production. Nothing off the shelf. Just true raw materials bought in and manufactured in

HebTroCo's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as HEBTROCO LTD, number 09958194. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Not yet checked.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.