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Finished this rig a few weeks ago and wanted to share it with you folks. I have a friend that helps me in the shop, mostly because we have fun together and both find it relaxing. Every now and then we even get a rig out of it for ourselves biggrin.gif He's been wanting to try a geometric basket weave pattern for a while and finally had the reason to do it on this project. It was for a mutual friends birthday and while I'm not a huge fan of mixing plastic with pleasure I think the rig turned out quite nice.

Thoughts/critiques always welcome!

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Wow! That is plumb beautiful.

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You're work is definitely some of the best out there man. Your stamping is awesome!!!

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Wow nice nice nice!

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It's gorgeous. Very nicely done.

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Just great! Running out of appropriate superlatives! I like the tri-weave. Is it the Tandy stamp you used on this project?

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Very well done. It is a real pleasure to see a well executed piece like this. A very good job of matching the tri-weave stamp impressions to the border stamp line to produce a harmonious design that fits the size of the belt and the holster. This is a rig that screams " TOP QUALITY WORK " through and through!

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Very elegant. I'm sure the client will be very happy

tk

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Awesome looking rig! How's you manage to get your belt stitches to run parallel hole for hole?

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Wow! That is plumb beautiful.

Thank you!

I like that stamping pattern Robert! It makes it look strong, like some sort of linked armour. Sort of a modern chain mail look.

Paul

Thanks Paul! It gives it a neat look, I'm glad I went with the smaller stamp.

You're work is definitely some of the best out there man. Your stamping is awesome!!!

I'd be insulting a lot of folks to take that compliment, but I appreciate the words none the less :)

Looks awesome and love the double stitching!

Thanks!

Wow nice nice nice!

Thank you!

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It's gorgeous. Very nicely done.

Thank you!

Just great! Running out of appropriate superlatives! I like the tri-weave. Is it the Tandy stamp you used on this project?

It is a Tandy stamp, does just fine though. If I had more requests I might get a nicer one.

Very well done. It is a real pleasure to see a well executed piece like this. A very good job of matching the tri-weave stamp impressions to the border stamp line to produce a harmonious design that fits the size of the belt and the holster. This is a rig that screams " TOP QUALITY WORK " through and through!

Thank you for the compliments! I'm not OCD about much, but any weave we do has to match angle wise from holster to belt. That sort of thing drives me absolutely crazy!

Very elegant. I'm sure the client will be very happy

tk

Thank you!

Awesome looking rig! How's you manage to get your belt stitches to run parallel hole for hole?

More blind luck as it doesn't always work out, I mark my start holes so as long as the machine does its part we are close. I can thank Cobra Steve for that I guess? :)

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Love everything about it. I'm new to leather working so what finish did you use for this? Dye, hi light, and finish? I love that deep color

The dye is Feibings Dk Brown, cut and applied until I get the shade I'm looking for. Takes a while but you get pretty good at forcing what your looking for most of the time. After dye I buff a ton, buff it some more, oil then a coat of resist, black antique in this case, buff some more then final finish. Biggest thing is patience!

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Every once in a while someone posts a superb piece of work that is truy inspirational. this is one of those cases. Absolutley beautiful.

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Every once in a while someone posts a superb piece of work that is truy inspirational. this is one of those cases. Absolutley beautiful.

Thank you for the compliments!

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Awesome work. One question how did you maintain the stamping and get the gun molded to the holster? Love that design. I used it on a dog collar for our Mastiff.

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very nice work my friend very nice!!!!

Thanks Jack!

Awesome work. One question how did you maintain the stamping and get the gun molded to the holster? Love that design. I used it on a dog collar for our Mastiff.

Thanks! If you look really closely, where the trigger guard and slide crease at the edge it's pressed out enough that it hass not taken the antique. This effect is reduced significantly with veg lined holsters but I haven't found a way to make it completely stop. Biggest thing I did to improve the washout was increase tooling depth through a 3" slab of marble and a proper Barry King maul. I use a 20oz which is overkill for these stamps and said to cause fatigue, but overkill is underrated in my book.

When I look back over it there are a few places my finish work should have been better - I was rushed for a party to deliver it but that's not much of an excuse. Devils in the details!

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Love it!

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