Blackey Cole

Iirc there is a fellow leather smith here that is offering a disc of western patterns his commercial patters were under the name brazos Jim or something similar. He is here under Jim ? Look him up. His patterns are excellent and come at a fair price now that he's no longer selling them commercially.

Is the Ruger LCP with Crimson trace the one with the laser in front of the trigger guard?

Nice rig

On the 1911 you forgot what is concidered the best way to carry one in the chamber hammer fully cocked and manual safety on. 1991s have been know to go off if the hammer is stored down on a chambered round or even in the safety position if dropped and hammer iss trucked that's why full cock with me chiral safety is best. For SA if you fan gun you be lucky to hit the target even if it the end of a barn. Yes fast draw with live ammo is still a compition today. So is cowboy action shooting.

Iirc some time back dusty Johnson did an article on a smaller bag like that in the leather workers and Saddlers journal. He made it for carring his six shooters and gun belt in plus iirc. For a truly custom case you'll need to do more than construct it, you'll need to tool it with a pattern or stamp it at least. Or both stamp it except for a place on each side where you carve and tool the owners initials or a horse head or both.

Nice setup.nice work.

Are you sure I have the xd 45 but I think the xd is skinner

No other ideas?

You could lace the edge of the belt doing two things need for the gun belt. 1st) covering the edge of the belt, I like a Mexican round weave type of pattern for the edge. 2nd) the lacing stiffens and strengthen s the belt. Or do like I did on my first couple of belts cut the liner as if you were going to use it as the McCain belt and stack them in the same direction that will put the grain side next to the flesh side of the outer layer your stacking the belt to double the thickness basically and then you can finish the edge per normal.

Nice but slow to retrieve shells from.

I guess no one feels like making one

Here is a link to the website it's going on now through the 23rd http://www.festivalofthecranes.com

I got a folding chair the type with a folding table on one arm that the canvas ripped and is no longer usable now. I'm wanting to replace the canvas seat and back with leather to make it usable again. It's one piece. I've two ideas. 1) solid pice of leather and lace it over the top and leg bars like the canvas was sewed. I would be worried to sew it since the stitching would weaken the leather. 2) solid piece of leather for seat and back with strips on outside for additional strength that way the stitching would be perpendicular to the stress on the leather. Also I have some mule hide I was told it was its soft and thick and greyish color. I'm thinking of using it as is for the prototype seat. To see if it will hold up and tweek from their. This isn't one of the chair in a bag chairs it folds flat sideways not like the old style the folded fore to aft.

The best info on making a gun belt I've seen is john bianci's videos. They not only tell you how to make the patterns, belt and holsters but why you do things that you need to do so it fits just right. A gun belt should be curved and not a straight strip of leather. Iirc it's a 3" difference between the length of the top of the belt to the length of the bottom of the belt. This allows for the difference between you waist and your hips where the belt rides. If you get the chance watch them they are one of the best instructional videos I've seen.

Try to get one that has a good bladder

that leaves me out I look at wood and it cracks and slits

what would it cost to have one made and shipped to 88310?

Would it be a master key item? If so why not a mag spot instead of the loops for unload ammo.

Are these free hand patterns drawn by hand or patterns that can be brought in to a cad program!

Very nice rig. I use to line my belts that very same way but relished if I used the suade side out on the inner layer of the belt instead of the grain side the belt stayed put. Because the suade gripped where the grain side slide around.

I'm much in the same boat as the op. I'm looking for something to stitch my leather projects together since the hands have arthritis and are not able to stich like I could when I leaned leather work. When I retired from the usaf in O2 I quickly needed a hobby at the time doi pulled out what leather tools that I had still and bought way to many new tools some leather and more hardware. I made belts for me and my family plus some other gifts that first year, around the end of the year I got interested in sass and cowboy action shooting. I made my first belt and two holsters for it. It was a single buscadero belt I put a straight hang holster in the loop and made a cross draw holster that matched on the belt it had close to thirty loops for 44/45 s. It was stolen in 09 when my RV blew a tire and destroyed the RV thing went all over the road I grab the five most important things to me my meds, my guns, my dog, my cat but he got loose and wasn't seen again, and my laptop and camera. Everything else was perty much picked up by a front end loader and dumped on the bed of the trailer or back of the truck. They took the top turn it upside down and put stuff in it. Somehow my clothes were able to be barbed also, I made two trips iirc to the storage faciltaly to gather stuff I found most things and each time filled the vehicle and left the rest. Between me and the insurance rep there was angreement made to have the rest picked up and cleaned and boxed and shipped to me but that fell through when the storage fees were looked at and the insurance co could not get the people out in time to make it cost effective. So I was given cart blanch on my claim. That was nice but somanythings were not relieved until after the end date. You go to get something and realize it was in the Wreck. Then months later when I got home I find stuff that I thought were oin the RV and stuff I thought was on the RV that was in fact at home. Enough of that sorry. I've been looking at the boss I understan that the cast bosses are the one to get. I make cowboy and military gear usually. I'm never used a me chiral screwing machine because I'm not fond of the stick they use. With my hand stitching it will not unravel but the one stitch but with the machine stich the whole thing can be unraveled. I guanteed my stitching when done by hand but I can't do that for machine stitching I wouldn't use the sewing awl because of the same reason. I need something small easy to store and works or easy to understand. Being a full time RV I got to limit what I can carry with me. I do have a shop that once cleaned out and organized works for my shop for reloading and storage of other items. My computer is setup in the main room the network on the dresser in the bedroom. Storage of my photo gear in pelica hard cases in the closet, etc. as you can see space can be limited. I would like a pony to mount it to and use the other end for a stitching pony. I have one folging table in the shop it nreed to be swaped out with a good workbench or a tool box with many drawers that fits the area. Mt presses at least the Dillion 550 and RCBS ruck Chucker on one of the frankfort arsenal reloading station with a ton of ankle weibthgs wrapped around it. The rest get clamped to a stool in the kitchen. Would a good used boss be my best way to got as I've got several projects from cowboy gun rigs with SG belt to saddlebags made to spec for the cavlery designs. Then there several small items made by the bakers dozen for use on each stage we shoot plus one for a spare OTr reshoot. Eventually I would love to have a full soldiers kit everything that he would have to go on patrol. Saddle and everything that attaches to it. Plus the items the solider wears. I have most of the later then go to the next version and built it. Every regulation change from the post civil war to the turn of the century. Not to mention an odd job here and there's. I'm not wanting a full time or even part time job. Maybe one or two small medium jobs a month max. Should I get the boss or something else power isn't a factor since I have a generator.

The best cross draw holster I had was a bianci cyclone.

I only have a few a must pull double duty. They are used to protect the one or two holsters that I don't use tennis balls in like the 1911 goes in my wild bunch holster, I just throw the SAA in a calvary rig. My XD is thrown in my tool bag. Mt Taurus 24/7 is also thrown in a bag with the tools. But if I had many like some of you I hear complaining about having so many that you have to dig for the correct one I got a solution. Make several frames of peg board hinge them so they can lay flat against the wall. Then you open it and can flip thru it like a book. The organize you blue guns on it. Then outline the gun and Lables what goes there. That way you have room for more blue guns every blue gun has a spot on the board. You can have one side glock the next could be /S&W revolvers then facing that the s&w autos, etc

I got some patterns for cowboy colors from her but couldn't figure how to read them because iirc they allow extra material cand stitch lines for the clothe that we don't need.

Do you think you should have posted someone else's copyrighted work, the page 13 pdf is from a book done my someone else. You could have just as easy posted to refer to it. I'm sure Tandy will be upset.