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That's 3 boards, 2 bolts, and a wing nut. Aguycould make that for about $20 using oak boards - under $10 if you use that soft stuff they have in teh pic.

I'm always surprised at the number of people willing to hammer the stitching. Then the same people go on about recessing the stitching to protect it! I usually machine stitch, and really the only "flattening" needed is maybe when the holes begin to 'blow out' a bit in the back side, which is usually quickly cured with a new needle..

Oh, and I forgot to mention... good clearance fer a fella's hand.. nothing preventing a good solid grip on the gun butt

I got the ones from Angelus - works great. But truth is, I generally use them just on belts -- most holsters are short enough I can just use a regular dauber... think I can steady my hand for 6"

Solid construction...reinforced in all the right places .. sandwiched clips .. tension in the bottom end... consistent color.... contrasting cosmetic thread ... whatz not ta like?!@! I LIKE it

Just a reminder.. there's about a bazillion holsters made every day without any "pattern" at all

Tell him that makes you even.. you didn't meana call him neether! You got married TWICE?!@#!! My buddy Robert mentioned he met you and some gal you was marryin - or just did -- down that way (TX) -- thought you seemed like an intelligent, decent fella (in texas, they says "fella"). I dun the same type of thing.. you know... where ya tell yer buddies i aint ne'er fixinta drink that much beer ever agin... then ya do. Course, the beer don't call you middle o the night years later ... I got married myself.. sisters' patio (concrete I put in myself), service by the pastor who is a friend of ours and would only take filing fee and coffee, and a couple witnesses. Only married this gal cuz they aintno 'wishywashy' about her.. kinda tough. She ever git tired o bein around, she prolly just punch me inna eye and go..

23 needle is pretty big hole for 138 thread I guess they're popular enough, but i don't like the 'S' point needles.

YIKES..twice in one day! you got billed AND married.. I'm SO sorry

Nice. One of 'em just showed up - with his "clients". Surprised to see us here, .. didn't Brooke tell you we were coming? Well, yes - yes she did. And after someone writes a check, you can decide who's here and who's not Try to be "nice' most of the time.. but really not gonna afford him the same respect I'd show an actual man...

Yeah, my turn to laugh now. I've had insurance people chasing me for YEARS, wanting to know if I was interested in this house or that one! Apparently, the realty people and the insurance people do nothing in the same places. My lawyer isn't from here. I had the sense to pick someone that these scavengers haven't spent the last 20 years sucking up to!

I've always used Fiebng's dyes -- the "spirit" dyes and the "oil" dyes. Directions right on the bottle. WHY go to pooptube? Unless of course you WANT to hear people telling you: I meant to do that. Its supposed to look like that Only with years of experience can you get this "effect" (BS... takes minutes, not years) it's "rustic" (translation - blotchy and cheap) If you want ONE source for information about coloring leather, get Stohlman's book "Pictorial Carving". LOTS of good info in there about dyes - including mixing and thinning.

Well, I certainly would agree with involving your lawyer. But I don't see real estate people doing anything most people couldn't do themselves. Course, you're not going to have real estate people telling you what it is they are being paid for. If people realized just how easy it is.. they'd do it themselves and the "professionals" would be out of work!

Seriously, I can't be the only one not blind to it. Real estate people? Where do they find these bottom-feeders, anyway? You sell a house, and I buy it -- so some "third party" gets money.. WHY? They "research" listings (which anyone with an internet connection can do), file some papers (which anyone can do) and schedule viewing of the property (which, you guessed it, anyone can do). It occurs to me, after talking to one particularly obnoxious waste of oxygen (spelled r e a l t o r) that there's another word for organisms of this type: par·a·site ˈperəˌsīt/ noun an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense.

I've had the "dummy" for the LC9 for months.. just haven't gotten to lay it out as yet

If you have a fixed size window you need to cut out, I'd just order a die made. One "stamp" and the whole window is cut out.. done. With a little planning, you could probably make it so the cut out piece can also be used as-is.

Don't misunderstand... I got a purdy good scrap pile 'round here too

Self taught is the best way! This way you're not bogged down by somebody else's opinions / quirks / misconceptions. You get to actually LEARN and get EXPERIENCE instead of listening to someone else's (often self serving) poop! GOOD FOR YOU!

So you boys sayin' I aint chargin' enuf?

All the video was about was to say that holding a holster upside-down with a "blue" gun means nothing at all.

Well, the economy of it is a no-brainer. 10 backs is about $1850-1900, depending on weight. Anywhere else, a back is going to run $225-$250 each - so going to HO saves you at least $50 per piece ($500 on a 10-pak), PLUS 10 shipping charges (another $200-ish), PLUS you're getting A grade (which the "retailers" aren't sending, with the exception of Goliger). Now, if you're in a location where it's difficult to control humidity, that might make a case for not buying multiple hides, otherwise ... if you will use 10 or more, best to save your money until you can buy them all at once, if that's what it takes (I cheat.. swipe a card ). Or, if someone else is doing leather - say within 100 miles of you -- maybe get together and 'split' an order (get it.. "split"... leather... uh nevermind..) A guy could drive over and pick up his 5 sides for about what the retailers are jacking up EACH piece.

I LIKE it when a fella calls 7 holsters 'a start'

See, there's where I got lost. If you added material, then the stitch lines can't be in the "same place".. they would be further apart. I know what I think you meant but if there's 1/2" more leather, then the fit can't be the same. HEre's what I did with the G43... make it 'wrap', and if you've seen that video with the airbrush then you've seen me making a "pouch"

Okay, lost me again Took me a minute to follow that If you "stretched" the front panel, that would explain why the gun is so far from the stitch line. Couple comments -- I like cardboard for making patterns like Dwight is describing. Manila envelopes (which is where most of us start, since we've been told that) don't allow for thickness, and belly leather stretches too much to be very accurate (though it does allow for thickness). But a regular piece of corrugated cardboard (the 'honeycomb' stuff shipping boxes are made from) work well for that. Kinda roll it and flex it until it's softened up some, and then works okay. Personally, I usually just sketch on graph paper, and when I know I'm 'close', I make one from the same leather I'm going to be using for holsters. If it isn't quite "right", I'm out less than $10... which I'd pay just to not to have to go get the cardboard Graph paper, because if I like the design, but maybe it could move in or out "right in there" for about 1/8", tehn I just move the line over 1/2 of the 1/4" square on teh paper.. and vee oh la. And then I often keep a scan of it (because something ALWAYS happens to the original). Comes in handy when you find that the G19 is the SAME as the G17, but about 12mm shorter (each end). So just bring up the scan of the 17, re-draw the bottom 2 squares higher, and there's yer 19 As for "adding to the front".... coming soon ... Oh, yeah .. 5-6 stitch to the inch is about what I like for 2 layers of 8 oz.