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Hey gang! I'm usually content to admire all your awesome work and soak in your experience. I'm working on doing it just like Stohlman Illustrates. Before I knew any better, I ordered a bunch of veg Tanned Horsehide and commenced producing buscadero style holsters so the Air Cav guys I was stationed with would look cool as heck while flying around Iraq.... I branched out into Askins style holsters. I made holsters that mostly fit Beretta's, but put out a few for the Contractor dudes' Glocks.... I didn't have much in the way of leather tools... so I would lay out the stitching lines, then run a groove with a tool from Tandy. I used a cheap pencil compass with a sheetrock screw duct taped where the pencil goes, the screw went in the previous hole punched and the point of the compass marked the location of the next hole. Once all the holes were marked, I drilled them with a Dremel tool in a drill press set up.... any time I was attaching two layers of leather, I used rubber cement and clamps to put the pieces together, then drilled through both layers... I used mostly 3/64ths and 1/16ths bits.... Then I found your website and started ordering tools and stuff by mail order from sponsors ads and a touch of google fu, to help my production... the stuff looked pretty good, and held up pretty well , too... no one ever brought one back for repairs... yet ( I always gave a life time warrantee!) Just thought I'd toss my method out there for grins , and maybe an out of the box solution.... LOL... And now back to our regularly scheduled thread....

I've been an Obenauf's fan for a few decades now... I 've been using the stuff on my thirty year old Maine Hunting shoes from LL Bean for close to thirty years ... I use it on all my Wesco boots... a pair of Jobmasters that are fifteen years old and worn six days a week, and second pair of Jobmasters I wear for Motorcycle riding... I have a thirty year old pair of Sidi Motocross boots that get the Obenauf's treatment as well... All my work gloves, my motorcycle gloves and my leather military gloves get the treatment, and my Vanson and Fox Creek Leather motorcycle jackets and Chaps get the treatment too.... I like to use leather laces in my work and riding boots.... I regularly treat them with the Obenauf's LP.... I've even used the stuff to moisturize my lips on a long cold Motorcycle run up to Laconia... I use the Heavy Duty LP paste the first time I treat any of my leather... Clean with a little diluted vinegar if the leather is moldy or really dirty, 2 tablespoons of white distilled vinegar in 16 oz tap water is a good starting point... let the leather dry and rub the LP paste in by hand... give it a second coat if the leather is older and shows signs of being extremely dry... I use the Leather Oil for touch ups in between yearly rub downs... Link: www.obenaufs.com Hoorah!

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