Military-Style Belt Buckles

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Ran across these black anodized (enameled?) web belt buckles for $2 each and wondered #WillItGlowforge?

Yes it will. :relaxed:

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10/335/340lpi (PRU)

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They look so cool!

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That came out really sharp! :smiley::+1:
(Whatā€™s a SUDO?)

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Cool!

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Unix/Linix geek talk. here is more than you want to know: sudo - Wikipedia

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Uber-geeky computer lingo ā€“ if you have SUDO privileges on a system, you can do anything on it.

sudo (/ĖˆsuĖduĖ/ or /ĖˆsuĖdoŹŠ/) is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. It originally stood for ā€œsuperuser doā€ as the older versions of sudo were designed to run commands only as the superuser.

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Want to guess how close I came to engraving the first one upside down (alternatively, making a ladiesā€™ model)?

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Okay, do guys do their buckles backwards too? :smile:

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Lefties do!

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Yes, yes we do. Shirts, zippers, belts ā€” itā€™s all XY mirror-world over here.

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ROFL! I assume thereā€™s a reason for it right? Anybody know why?

(I do know that it costs a hell of a lot more to get a ladies blouse dry cleaned than a manā€™s shirt, and Iā€™m still trying to figure that one out.)

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AAAAAnd it all dates back to men carrying swordsā€¦

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Seriously? Thatā€™s a hoot! We havenā€™t done the sword thing in a pretty good while.

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Why do I know such things?

People at work call me a cornucopia of useless knowledge.

Yes, seriously.

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And here I thought it was for ease of access during automobile-based courting rituals.

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Now Iā€™m laughing! :joy:

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And Google gives varied answers so YMMV.

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Of course, my rationale breaks down in Great Britain, Japan, and other sword-based driving conventionsā€¦ As well as the obvious sexist bias inherent in it. Oops.

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Nice!!

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What Iā€™d always heard is that menā€™s buttons and buckles and such are designed for right-handed people to fasten themselves. Womenā€™s are designed for their (presumably right-handed) servants to do for them and are thus backwards.

This article includes that idea, but also quite a few others about why it might be.

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