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Your leather is far too wet.

well, yah, it gits cold, but it's a relative cold. Like not panama, but not the arctic

'cepfer he wants a 'flat back' rig. I guess I could go on design a stack o' those, but really I just figgered folks would adjust that themselves.

Web site "back on". Ron - we don't know.. you got a pattern fer 'im?

catching up a bit at a time. Just adding that if you have a @frontier - dot - something email address for me, it aintno goodno more lights should be back on at the web site shortly ...

If you got away with $1k, you must not have met my wife

Oh, I don't have that one too Just the SOLO around here, though I been meanin'ta pick it up a bit!

I could get fakebook messages all day long and never know it I did know about the site (bill is due yesterday ) but I appreciate the 'heads up' What pattern did they need? Maybe just post it here in the interest of speed ... According to the wench wife, shopping oak bar stools is higher on the priority list!

Yep, finally moved in (MN). 60 degrees today, but expecting snow Friday

Since your profile says interested in tooling, then you will need tooling leather. Hermann Oak and Wickett & Craig are the big ones in the U.S.

Okay, bunch of stuff off the trucks 'n' trailers. Piles beginning to get sorted. Sewing machine - "check". Here, but not verified to be in one piece I really must have another coffee before proceeding ...

Yeah, another plug for Ray and friends .. very nice people, easy to work with, and the embossing roller works just fine Note they also make a decent holster mold.

Nope, sure don't know none. But if you've 'scoured', maybe you can tell us about some worth viewing

Your beveling looks deep enough. What's missing is the matting. Stohlman covers that issue pretty well in that book. For more examples - and discussion of this - - search for posts on this site by Yaklady... fantastic examples of matting. And here's a simple example just to show that the beveling doesn't need to be deep to show "depth" -- this wallet is done in 3/4 oz leather. I particularly liked this one:

Strange -- that pictorial carving book is GREAT for that type of thing. Got a pic of your progress? Maybe I can suggest something ..

nice color!

I would probably have to figure the design into teh style of holster, like as in the Glock 42 ink design fits the Glock 42 holster design. No ink crossing stitch lines, flags follow contours of the finished shape.. 'n' such. But I'm not obsessive. That's my story, 'n' I'm stickin tuit.

Spot on, Josh - THANKS Love the color in that rig, too!

That's great advice Josh! Clear and to the point. And useful. Got a quik pic of the finished result? He'd surely benefit from it, and I don't mind seeing one more pic of your work

Man, them there sold QUICK Guess I better gitta makin patterns for those

Now that's a legitimate, specific question! Yep, with ya.

You seem to be missing my point. Probably my fault, I may not have spoken clearly. The duration of the video is not prime importance but, rather, the content. If it's useful information, then common sense dictates that the video be long enough to convey that information. I don't know that there is an "optimum" length, or if that even matters. But if someone (anyone) learned leather from videos and online photos, then why not refer others to those materials (since they seem sufficient to the task)? This is a bit of what I refer to -- the making and re-making of the same content. Seriously, there are many videos of some guy with a ruler, marking some distance from a gun or a sketch of a gun... which stohlman covered in 30 seconds and didn't need a video!. In fact, it seems quite petty to me to learn by watching videos and/or pics by someone else, and then charging others for information which was / is available free of charge. This is why much of my content is available free, and will continue to be. Sam Andrews is one good example - to me - of both sides of this coin. He made a very informative, useful video about making "saddle" holsters (aka "pancake"). What he does is nearly exactly what I do, with the exception of an aluminum burnisher and my slight envy of that stitcher One side of the coin, his information is clear, including basic reasoning why he's doing it. It's useful, to the extent that [short of giving you the pattern] a guy with no experience could actually begin to DO what he showed you. Other side the coin -- because a guy could MAKE a 'saddle' holster just from that video, then to make another video which adds nothing to that, would perhaps be teh fruit of a 'small man complex' from someone in need of attention. Better, I think, to simply copy the link, and when someone asks about how to go about making a 'saddle' or 'pancake' holster and wants video, just send them the link to that one (unless, of course, a guy has a link to a BETTER one). I've been sending people to that video for a few years (prolly more). Hence, no video from Jeff about that same style holster. Hank and Sam covered that very well. I assume they put a good amount of "work" into it, but that's also not a factor for me. Someone spending all weekend on a video has wasted the weekend if the video isn't useful to the people viewing it. Perhaps just my own impression, it almost seemed a slight tone of 'correction' in that post (weird, huh). So without creating arguments 'n' such, I 'll just state that I'm a simple guy. My big problems at the moment are my coffee cup is nearly empty and I can't find my nail clippers I just try to offer people useful information, presented in a manor they can use without killing 3 hours to do a half-hour project. Some will use them, and just say thanks. Some will use them, not say thanks, and almost expect more. Some will refuse to use them. Whatever -- each his own. As for any comments, past or future, from me - again, I'm just simple. I make comments with little regard to where I am. Cards are on the table -- I do not say anything about someone that I wouldn't say to that someone, and anything I say can be freely repeated when and where anyone sees fit. All I ask is that people repeat what I actually said... not some skewed perception based on their own tendencies (or lack of them). I now return you to the original question : So, seriously -- those who just want to bicker and argue, please do it elsewhere. Otherwise, DO tell me where the video is that ACTUALLY DOES show me how to design / make a holster. I know about the one Sam Andrews made (which I applaud). Is he still the only one?

Been out for a few days.. gittin' people to move my stuff safely Good to see you folks takin' up that latest holster pattern!

I really don't 'get' it... if somebody said 'hey- pay attention to me while I take up 20-30 minutes of your life and you gain nothing'.. very few would be 'in' on that. And yet.. No point going on about it. My suggestion is: when you watched a video, maybe jot down what you actually got out of it. I understand that some people WANT to be distracted from actually doing anything -- I'm talking to the other ones

Okay, well .. after a week 'n' a day, iss juss you 'n' me goin on about sam -- which I take it to mean either 1) there is no video that actually offers useful info, or 2) there is,but issa secret Either way -- guess I'll make one juss fer me. Maybe some info about making them there 75/25 holsters (seam not down teh middle)... but I'd be the only one interested anyway. Everybody else appears content with bad music and videos which don't actually inform