Shooter McGavin

I bought some delrin. First impression? It's really shiny!

Well I have an old pattern hat you can have if you like it. It was a one off I guess and I do not use it anymore. Heres what it looks like. I would change the sweat shield and the belt slots though.

Is it an HK45 or an HK USP45?

I'll take that G36 please. LMK how to get you paid.

Looking to buy a Glock 36 dummy gun. Manufacturer unimportant. Or if someone wants to let me borrow one for a week I will mail it back out the next business day and reimburse for your shipping. Thanks!

I use this to open up my pancake holsters. Works great for mag carriers as well. Slide side and muzzle get the big end, trigger guard gets the small end. http://www.tandyleat...ts/8121-00.aspx

Holster looks great, right or wrong, somebody is gonna want that!

I've had some HO like that as well. Not worth the hassle to me anymore so I stay exclusively with W&C Saddle Skirting. Thanks for sharing about the hook knife though! Always nice to have options.

I use 7-8oz leather. For the punch I use a fairly large deadblow hammer. Takes a couple of swing to get through. I might run down and have them sharpen it next time I'm around there. After a few hundred holes it's slowing down a little bit.

Thats how I started, and was never happy, as the hole punch tapered big to small, and it was impossible for me to match the angle of the punch with the angle of my blade, so the cut always looked bad. Next I went with a forstner(sp?) bit, which at least made a straight hole, but still the blade would wander and waver when I tried to connect the holes. This was at least better, and O could run behind the cuts with a small drum on the dremel tool and straighten things out. Once I started selling a lot of holsters, I bought a custom made punch from Weaver Leather and now I just punch the slots in. For the 80 or 90 bucks they charged, it has been worth 20 times that much to me thus far.

Exotics will mold almost as well as the cow leather backing they are bonded to, assuming the bond is done well. However, with their printed leather ostrich, I think you will loose the "quills" once you get it wet. Maybe not, but certainly something to ask them about.

5" 1911, Steyr M9A1, Glock Compact, M&P Compact, 3" 1911

I like springs on my hardtail seat. Tried it once without, no thanks, not around Cleveland

Nice work. Thats some thick leather too, bet it was tough to get any kind of detail molding in there. Looks like youve left yourself plenty of room to get a solid grip on the gun, stayed off the safety, and provided a useful sweat shield. Food for thought: The extension of leather past the snaps is a bit too long. It provides no positive qualities, and may actually get caught on stuff and cause your snaps to unsnap. Also, and this is certainly only a matter of personal preference, but I like to do the snaps in a diagonal fashion when I do the double snap models.

Ray, that shoulder holster is a thing of beauty!

That makes sense. Thanks!

Nice seat, lacing looks good. Silly question. How do you splice lace? I'm about to do a solo bag for my hardtail which will be laced and never thought of splicing lacing together. Thanks!

Sold. Thanks Bruce! I have more available everyone. Let me know what size you're after and I'll shoot you a price. Thanks

I have a piece of elephant hide up for sale. This is from Roje leather and came off of a large piece I used for belts. To be perfectly honest, it doesnt burnish very well, it might be partially chrome tanned. Would still work nice for inlays or money clips, small stuff, I dunno. Asking 15 dollars shipped. The "far" picture is, at least on my computer, a more accurate representation of the actual color. Thanks!

I use 7-8oz leather on all my items. Saddle skirting from W&C. I cant get super detailed with it but it suits my style fine. However, when I first started out I was using the Tandy shoulders and still had good luck with them. But ya, let the leather dry out some before you start getting into it. Also, which tools you use might come into play. Almost all of my detail work are done with these 2 rather inexpensive tools from Tandy. Horn Creaser Plastic Bone Folder

I've decided to stay with contact cement on my holsters, if only for the assembly time factor.

Mix it with some white? DO they offer a white? I dunno.

Are you tooling the belts before applying the dye? I've found that brown dyes dont seem to penetrate burnished leather very well. What dye are you using? I try to stick with Fiebings Pro Oil dyes and have pretty good luck with them, although it takes a while for them to "dry".

Dye, then oil, then seal. Typically with a day in between each step is how I do this.