Dave Richardson

Thank you everyone for the comments, I use them as a grade card of sorts. As for tracing...I have some friends and family out of state that like the holsters I make, I wondered if tracing was a way to make a holster without having the pistol or a bluegun. I agree with what has been pointed out that the gun thickness, leather thickness, and how you trace all changes final outcome. On this build, the stitch line is 1/2 inch out from the traced line, thats different than cutting the leather 1/2, or 3/4 inch as correctly pointed out by jlsleather, out from the trace line. For this build the 1/2 inch stitch line made for a snug fit that should "break in " just right. I think if the stitch line was 3/4 inch out from the trace line the fit would have been a little loose. For me....cut leather 1 inch out from trace line, glue edges, come in 1/2 inch from edge ( easy even numbers lol ) stitch, then trim to 1/4 inch of stitch line, put left handed holster in box of shame and cut out right handed holster ....TBD if this will work for different pistols ????

So I got the Al Stohlman How to make holsters book and tried the" make your own pattern". It said leave at least 1/2 inch for the stitch line, I did and it turned out so small I couldnt get the gun in. The second one I cut out will make someone a nice LEFT handed holster....Im right handed ! This is my third attempt. I left 1 inch for stitching and came in 1/2 inch for stitch line then trimmed, then dressed it up alittle. Its 8 OZ latigo with latigo lace. I made it for myself. Thanks for looking and comments are always welcome

Love the crossdraw style for those big blades. Nice Job !

Good stuff !

Good stuff !! Love the rifle slings.

Really nice, love the colors. Nice looking leash too.

Now thats impressive. Thank you for sharing. I too would love to see some of your techniques.

great job on the collar. Awesome dog.

good looking rig.

your a holster makin machine ! They look great.

I really like this one . Nice clean work, good job !

Good ideas sojammer. Thanks

excellent idea !!!! who would have thunk. good job.

Thats a whole lot of impressive stamping ! Thanks for sharing.

So I found this little derringer last week and the salesman made me buy it. I wanted to be able to carry it without covering it up. I had a side of econo vegi tan from Weavers in 7-8 oz and thats what I used. does not color well. does not tool well, forms pretty good. Since it is for myself I can except a few flaws. I included some WIP pics to show how it went together. Thanks for looking and comments are always welcome..

Thanks Beret, lots of good thought in your post. I too like the idea of one of a kind, dont care for making something over and over. Thanks for your post

I like everything about it. Nice work.

Really nice. I would use that for sure.

Learned all those techniques, put together all the needed tools and completed a dozen projects in 24 to 36 hrs. now that would be remarkable.

Im wanting to sell some of my work to help pay for supplies and hopefully one day suppliment my retirement. Do you folks that sell build an inventory and take it some place to sell like a craft show or concentrate on getting the word out and take orders.

Beautiful work as always. Your lacing inspired me to learn how ! If I could ask, did you have the bible to make this cover or did you do it from dimensions ? Im trying to understand on a custom order, how do you know what size to make it ?

I just went through the same problem. The fix was using a different browser, google chrome did it for me.

Really nice !

Hey, if you could send that seat to me I could critique it better ! Thats top notch, Dave

I tried Google and Google chrome. Its only a problem on my android tablet. Android phone and google chrome is good, work computer and google is good.