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I just finished this one for a customer who is going to wear it horseback riding in Oklahoma.

I don't often get to do "fun" ones, . . . this was definitely one of those.

I put it on after I got it done, . . . fit like it should have been mine.

This is a double layer, . . . glued together, . . . Katsass/Dwight type holster, . . . belt is the same. Have to admit that I did cheat a little bit though, . . . there were only 36 or so hand stitches in the whole rig, . . . rest were done on the old machine.

May God bless,

Dwight

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Great looking rig. Nice work, very clean.

Chief

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Good lookin' stuff. What did you hand stitch?

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Thanks for the good words, guys, . . . in answer to your question, Red, . . . the thumb break just simply was easier to do by hand than to try to crank it around on my Boss's table.

Also, . . . when I start out my Western belts, . . . i have the underside keeper in place, . . . but no thread in the machine, . . . I make the holes with the machine, so that they are perpendicular, evenly spaced, etc.

About the 3rd hole after the keeper, . . . I put thread in it, . . . and start "Bossing" my way around the belt, . . . in this case it was about a total of about 500 stitches on the belt itself. When I get back to the bottom side of the keeper, . . . I pull out about 16 inches of thread, . . . then hand sew that bottom side of the keeper, . . . and end my sewing on that lower corner of the belt.

About 24 stitches in the thumb break and another dozen in the keeper, . . . ala teaching of Mr. John Bianchi, . . . for which I am seriously grateful.

May God bless,
Dwight

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Very nicely done Dwight.

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Dwight, great looking rig! I finish my belt loops the same way and they look infinitely better than riveting to my eye.

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Thanks, guys, for the kudos, . . . as for the belt loop, . . . I do it John Bianchi's way, . . . would probably quit rivets altogether if I could find something that would fully take their place in the stuff I do.

May God bless,

Dwight

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