Samalan

I made this prosthetic for a very nice lady. She had no fingers or thumb on her left hand and fingers—well, stubs really—from the knuckles to the first joint and a small piece of thumb on the right hand. I then made some small adjustments to the gun. The right-hand side of the gun features an expansion grip that keeps it in place. With the prosthetic, she can pick up the magazine, cock the action, and load the gun. Also, I fixed a red dot to the gun just to make it that much easier to shoot. After a short time, she is deadly accurate with it. The wood holds the gun, so she can stick her hand in, take the gun out, and fire. And yes, the prosthetic is leather. I cast her hands to do the project. When people saw the casted hands in the shop, they asked what they were for. Then, after a short explanation, they would donate to the project. I never asked for donations; they just gave them. She was very happy with the project; she never complained, she just went with it. She also had no legs below the knees, but you wouldn’t know it. What a great gal! Has anyone else made a leather prosthetic? This was my first.

Looks pretty cool to me, I'm sure your friend is going to love it.

Passing anything through the thread where the lockstitch forms is not helping; that's IMHO

I generally use them on nylon strapping, but yeah, they don't slice the leather like a leather point. I'm not saying they are the best thing to use, but anything that separates threads isn't a good thing; even a round point can compromise thread strength if you're sewing a shirt, no big deal. If you're sewing a holster, now you want all the thread strength you can get.

Yes

Definitely not trivial, it depends on what you're sewing. If it's in a stitching groove, you don't need that slant look anyway. I did a holster one time at the very end. I cut the thread in half. I now use diamond or round point on almost everything, unless I need the look you get with a leather-point needle, then I'll backstitch by hand. It's easy, and I get a better job. The problem is that when you use a leather point, it's designed to slice through leather, and it will slice through thread just as easily.

I would use a thin carbon fiber strip. You can sew through it, punch holes in it, and it's very strong.

Yes, I have had this problem. A leather-point needle can cut the thread in half. Ask me how I know lol.

Beautiful job, thanks for showing it.

Wow, beautiful job, like all of your work.

Why not Velcro? You don't see it, and it's very strong and has no metal at all.

Looks really nice.

You did a beautiful job on that belt. I was just joking, there's so much stuff on that belt I was thinking you could possibly get a holster behind the hammer holder in the small of the back, just joking around. You did a great job on that. I would wear that belt in a heartbeat, my friend.

I don't see a holster anywhere on that system?

Nice job on that, Dwight, especially the basket weave and color.