My wife got it for me for Christmas. It looks great and is high quality. But a belt that I trim to get it the size I wanted?The instructions gave me the feeling that it was complicated and that I'd end up with a belt that soon would be in pieces. (Maybe that's my own fault. and I made it over complicated.) But eventually, I laid the instructions aside and just cut it to size. It was easy, the belt looks like it was made the size I cut it too. It's substantially made. No danger of it coming apart.Two conclusions . I'd buy it again.And reading instructions is overrated.