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very elegant , im actually working on the exact holster for a j frame ,(not pocket holster ) I hope it comes out as good as yours did . It will be my first try at it , again very nice

You mean like getting a grip on the grip and accidentally putting your finger in the trigger gaurd and trying to withdrawal pistol and at that split second forgetting you did not set the safety, all the while you are in motion pulling the trigger, you mean like kind of series of events . There are reasons I and many other holster makers cover the trigger guard, maybe im missing something

Are you having trouble finding it? I don't know what other people are using instead of the rubber but I went to my local fiberglass supply house ( im redoing the floor in my boat ) and they had samples of this rubber in different hardnesses, I looked into it more and it was that gum rubber, durometer stuff, I think that's what they call it, it was sold in a two part mix I believe and it was not that expensive . Places like that may be a good source to find some rubber . Ben

Whoa! That design scares me. But for your question I would put the lace or strap under the hammer

Thank you so much very beautiful work by the way.

No one can help a brother out, how does 6.5 x6.75 sound

Hey folks, I have a question I hope that someone can help me with, I have a couple of orders for checkbooks covers, I can get a good idea of what I need but I just wanted to get the standard size if possible, the basic one with two pockets for the checkbook and register, all I need is a inch x inch size, not a picture or anything like that , thanks guys yall are great Ben

I found a way to reduce the size sorry they are still to big , but thats the best i can do right now

on a test piece , I tried tan kote and it wiped the dryed dye away like it was a cleaner , well I guess the super shine did its job . so I just airbrushed a 50/50 mix of my holster resolene and let it dry and it worked perfect sealing everything in . I tried to post pics the quick way but they are to big and is there away I can bring the file size down without getting a url for them?

cool set up . I have all the parts and pump just like that one but do not use it . I have no room for it rigth now , but now I have an idea of what you are always talking about . thanks for the pictures and decription . ben

I just finished a piece with tooling and oiled it let it dry, super sheened it and let dry and the antiqued it and let it dry and then airbrushed the the edges ( not the edging that we burnish and finish but the outside perimeter ) and let dry and wiped for some striking and aged effect, it came out awsome, so now I have dye on top of super sheen, so my question is can I use tan kote on top of super sheen, I have satin sheen but is still to bright, shiney for what I want, tan kote will give me the effect I want but I don't know if it is compatible with the super sheen, I need something to lock in the dye that is on top of the super shine, it is a journal cover so it wont see much use but just enough to maybe get dye run off that I don't want later down the road , thanks for any help I can get Ben

Pure awsome-ness ,saw it on LW facebook and watched it 2 times and is a great video, thanks for pinning it Ben

im down . I was just talking to my wife about buying some more just this morning . I need about 4 of them and she asked me if it could wait until after xmas .. i told her no . lol .. wellcount me in , dont forget about shipping ......

looks great , thats kinda of what I want to do for me scoped .44 mag , Im just unsure of the design . but still working on it . again looks great . ben

ok here is my set up . I have a little over thermometer to watch the temp carefully , I have the oven on the lowest setting which is rght before the 100 degree mark and I get right below the 150 mark on the thermo so im asuming is is in the 130-140 range and turn it on when I start forming so it can be ready when im done and then set the timer for 20 min and it turns off when done . I cut two of the wires on the rack to i can supend the holster so it wont give it "grill marks" if I leave it to long here are some pics and I picked the oven up off of craiglist for 20 bucks ,

thanks eric , I am still trying to reproduce that exact look but I can not . I jist burnish the inside of the slot with a dowel that will give it that look... sorta . i use about 5 pieces of thread and coat liberaly with rouge and mount tool in my vice upside down and run the thread inside the forks a bunch of times and I have also rouged the edge of a piece of leather and run the tool backwards on the edge and that will do the trick also . the tread trick will to the groovers also ,. you just have to thread the line into the groovers hole and run it back and forth a bunch of times , hope this helps ben

hey guys thanks for all the possible solutions , and Particle I am in houston and a member of texaschlforum.com and I totally forgot about that one (thanks for reminding me) . I thiink I will use that one 1st since maybe I could get someone local and do a cash deal instead of using paypal and paying a 8 dollar shipping fee . but ill ship it too . - I aint scared .lol At the very begining the holster making I thought of all the possible routes to sell and doing the consignment thing for a gunshop was on my list and also building a good amount of holsters and renting a table at a gun show . side note : at a gun show in houston there is a guy selling IWB's small, mediums , larges , all flesh side out and white stiching and with no type of selant or nothing on them , and he is selling them for more than i was planing on selling my holsters , and selling them like crazy , To particle ; so if you dont take payment right away when order is placed , then when . do you call customer and tell them to pay up and you will ship when monies is recieved ? all of my business has been word of mouth through friends and families and they all pay when holster is in there hand , when I exhaust all my orders and contacts then I will look into getting a website to expand outside of my houston area thanks again guys for all your help ben

Hey guys, I will be having a few extra holsters that the customers can not pay for and they are already made , grrr. I guess I should start taking payment 1st , well anywho I could post them on Craigslist and make a quick sale that way but i was wondering if any of you guys think it is a good idea to sell in gun forums in the for sale section , I am a member of a few and do meet the requirments to sell stuff on there but just wondering what you guys thought about it , some forums do have holster makers as sponsers and one forum is owned buy a huge holster maker , they are a BREED of there own , should I ask permission?? thanks fo any help confused

hey guys thanks for the replys and it looks like I may be in over my head on something like this , if I didnt have so many hobbies and projects going on im my life i might give it a try , i'll just plan on buying some already made and if I catch some more then ill give it is a kiss and send it on its way to fight another day ben

hey guys , I have been fishing here in the galveston area and have been catching alot of black-tip sharks from 2 ft to 6ft and also stingray all the way up to 100 lbs. I am a holster maker and it never dawned on my to possibly keep the fish to save the skins for leather work, I can give the meat out so it will not go to waste , I have been letting them go every time , ( i dont eat shark and stingray ) , is there anywere online on how to treat the skins into leather or is it to much trouble ,I can not find anything online about the tannin process and I know you guys and gals know something about it . Thanks guys for any help you can give me ben

I have had the same problem when I first started , but here is what I do and it has been working for me with no problems , when im stitching , i just have a towl on hand to wipe up the build-up every inch or so of stitching , and it has never back fired oon me , what had happened was when it was in the stitching vise , some of the wax got on the vise mouth leather and i didnt know it and when i repostioned the piece and clamped down , it impregnated the wax resude on the piece and I did not know it , until i dyed it and ruined it , now I just LIGHTLY wipe down just the sewen line , I dont have that problem , and I even goes away more when I heat dry it in the oven , hope this helps any ben

I have tryed it with my vac pump which is for pulling freon out a/c systems ,its a big one and pulls 30 in/hg of vacuum so it works just fine , I dont have a press or table setup or anything like that but I have used vacuum bags for storing cloths , they sell three bags for 9 bucks and I just adapted to make it work , the only problem i had was the bag creasing up and leaving wrinkle marks on the leather , I tried taping the bag to a table to stay put but it kept shrinking to half its size and creating wrinkle marks , I do want to try to make a vacuum table but do not know what to use as the top piece to get pulled (sucked) down to sandwich the leather ,the only thing I can think of would be a thick trash bag plastic , its pliable and streachable, any other ideas ben