harley scabbard

@MattW

I've been blown away with your work, this one in particular.
It's kinda tough to see how the gunstock side works, what comes off/how it's opened, BUT-

The cutaway design is similar to a design that I did about 5-6 years ago, that I've wanted to acquire the skills to try to execute
Did you use a steel, rawhide, or some other hard lining between the layers of leather, to get it to hold its shape so well?
My design would absolutely need something like that, and I wondered if you had the knowledge/experience working with those kind of internal liners. 
If so, I'm going to have to "pick your brain" a little bit, if that's ok.

That might just be the nicest, most innovative scabbard I've ever seen...the molding around the sights and magazine tube...Magnificent!

Thanks for the compliment.

This client came to me once and I told him I wasn't interested in doing it unless he acquired a metal scabbard base that would securely and safely be mounted to the bike.

6 months pass and he shows up with a sheet steel scabbard with welded mounting points.

The interior is lined so the rifle has a comfy place.

I attached the carved image to a dark oil tanned leather 6/7oz if I recall.

The oil tanned base completely wraps the metal scabbard base.

The "lid" is secured with the buckle strap you see on both sides.

The rifle is further secured by a 1/4" thick steel insert fastened with hasp and padlock. Unless you remove the padlock and lift it away from the scabbard, you cannot remove the rifle from the scabbard.

It was cumbersome at times but I think it was worth it.

So what I'm looking at is an IMAGE of the rifle, and not a "cutaway" scabbard? Ah, I see...in the 2 dimensional photo, I thought that I was looking at the rifle itself!
Gorgeous!

Thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated.

Yes, the rifle is tooled onto vegtan and sewn to the leather that wraps the scabbard.

Wow...you had me fooled! LOL!

 

Weird side question.  What size holes for the ends of guitar straps?

@MattW  I believe that 5/16 is pretty much standard.