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I generally put a rubber washer on teh screw ... acts a bit like a lock washer by keeping pressure on the screw. For slings, I include instruction about using a drop er two of thread locker after installing, and check periodically.

'preciatecha fellas

The Bond Arms bullpup with some contrast - black shark skin and stout red thread. I must get some thread to match the grips on this pistol ...

Oh, incidentally, I'm making pretty much all of my holsters these days with double-layer backs ... as in 2 layers of 4 oz instead of a single layer of 8. Keeps the sweat guard firmer for longer.

Seems to be a bit of a trend.. spend a bunch of money on a machine, store it, then sell it for less than paid A lot of that lately ...

That IS the point. Show a guy how to, then he does his own. Not sure what difficulty you had, but the method you describe is often used to make holsters WITHOUT any pattern at all. My friend Robert made holsters for 10 years before ever using a "pattern". It does look like you have MORE than enough room behind the trigger guard.. don't know if that's method or the leather maybe soaked to the point of "walking" on you. (?). By the way, stitchin' looks pretty good, but the whole holster is BACKWARDS Same pattern, rightey, usen' up a tad o' croc was left over from something ... good while back.

Yup. "back in the day" we used to have software installed and running LOCALLY, so everything was tested and working BEFORE it went live. These days I have neither the equipment for that or the space to set that up.

Thanks -- I'll consider that

Not sure due to translation stuff, but I guess it's sorta the same thing.. open source, blahblah... downside being that somebody is always fixing what isn't broken. Nice to have somebody SAY .. when you install this upgrade, yer other stuff may not work any more! But, they don't ... I miss the days of buy the disk , use the software... but I think those days might be gone for good.... Trend is to convince you they're doig you a "favor" with auto (and constant) updates ...

Well, the stress isn't SO bad.. once it's set up the way it should go, not much to maintain it. Just would have been nice 'heads up' on that latest wordpress update ... And the "bill" isn't much, for most sites a leather guy would need. Your own site can be done for $150-200 plus card processing fees, which are likely 3% +/- a bit. I'm a PayPal user, ends up being more like 7%, translates to 3.5% for their processing, which I consider acceptable trade-off for the shipping label service. Nice idea would be... 2, 3, 4 ... leather people all sell from the same site. Not really a consignment thing, just a bit of collaboration. And the next thing you know, there's another Cutesy, or ... similar. Again, with cutesy - I never did care for the idea of appearing with a bunch of cheap junk (ACRES of cheap junk). But the straw is that every so often I shut that off, then when I turn it back on it's a matter of time before I'm bringing THEM business. For a fee. So - translate that ... I'm PAYING them for the 'privilege' of ADVERTISING THEM. So, just let that trail off.... (the fees are just bumped up to just north of 8%, and their recreation has become changing the rules just to change the rules). BUT, if a guy just wants a place to list some 'stuff', cutesy is relatively cheap and easy to use, so ... each his own.

Heavy lifting? What would that be? What's yer site? Cutesy does a nice job of painless USPS shipping labels (which is the big issue) and their handling of pdf downloadables is effortless for the most part. But I've always had issues with them. Most of 'em I just ignored, but for a while every year I'm shutting that down because I'm bringing THEM way more 'business' than they're bringing ME. And then of course there are numerous social diseases people will assume I'm supporting by endorsing cutesy. Did I say diseases? I should say social issues, maybe. Several other similar businesses have contacted me at various times, but they all leave something that makes it not worth going. I really like the idea of just having somebody ELSE do that, but just can't make sense of it. I'm quite big on the idea of EITHER doing the work, OR paying someone to do it for me... BUT NOT BOTH. I don't intend to pay somebody for web "stuff", then I still have to provide images, the 'theme' of the site, pricing, general flow of the site. So I would be paying somebody.. for what? To upload my stuff?@! But I'm like that anyway.. why I don't have ANY employees. Somehow, they self-decide that they can use my stuff to do their own designing and social poop, and expect that while they do all that I should be paying them ANYWAY for not doing what I agreed to pay them to do

DOH!

Sweet. Does it come in colors?

I like to not mold the ejection that deep, and you already know about the slots. I like the look -- coordinated colors, consistent stitchin', and who don't like that shark?@! Make sure you have enough room in the site channel and should be fine!

I gotta say, I think basket stamp need some kind of border / termination. But you got it crisp and straight as ever!

We've seen your color work, and we are not concerned about "spoiling" I like it already!

So you got taxes in Oregon too, eh?

Chores day. Take end of sewing machine apart and clean all the fuzzies out, oil it good (better than the normal "routine" cleaning). Back up computer files and patterns. Order boxes and labels. Start the dreaded inventory ...

For a couple hunnert dollars difference, DEFINITELY the powered version. If you're doing ONE, or even ONE A WEEK, maybe get an awl. If you're doing more than that, the powered version is a no-brainer.

Ran into a fella at a gun show yesterday --- said he just bought a holster from somebody else for a pistol that I am working on a design for. Pretty new gun. So I said 'cool-send me a picture of it'. And gave him my card with the phone num on it. But instead of the pic of the HOLSTER I thought he was gonna send, the guy sent me a screen shot of the web site where he got it. YIKES! Those designs look real familiar, considerin' I'm NOWHERE NEAR south carolina Seriously, fellas - those designs are FREE and I MEANT that they get used. And nobody needs to give credit for the designs, I've never even asked that. But do you know how SAD you look when you're all up on the web site proclaiming them as your OWN original design? MAN, my regret here is that I won't be there to see that guy's face when he gets to MY site and sees the same designs, done better...and for almost $100 less Probably just as well I didn't see the site until after I left, or I likely would have corrected that guy's information right there with 100 other people.