Lizardo

Looks great to me!

Really like your patterns. The California carving patterns are beautiful and not overly complicated.

I made one a few (no, wait, twenty) years ago based on the one in the book. Mine is completely round. I use it to store my SASS gear.

Thanks, extremely helpful, quite generous indeed!

Probably the best instruction I have seen on basketweave! I've done quite a bit and the most taxing was on a Buscadero with a drop in the top edge of the belt. Essentially, the belt is a constant width. Complex curves and basket weave don't really get along very well! LOL

I have noticed how so many CW patterns have CS in the oval. From my understanding, the South didn't mark them this way, but it still looks good. There were also a lot of different designs the Confederacy used, there wasn't much of a 'standard' design.

Nice rig and nice Open Tops! I plan on making at least one for my 1860 Army or Leech Rigdon.

My first floral belt was, in a word, hideous. Never can seem to keep the cuts even, or even finish the same as I started. So, I cheated and got a Craftool. Geometric, inverted even figures I don't have much problem with at all, just floral. I love Sheridan, just can't seem to get the knack. I also have arthritis which hampers me a lot, hands just get too tired. Therein lies the main part of the problem. Starting...stopping...starting again...stopping again. Continuity is my major failing.

I have one I made about 20 years ago, still wear it. It is a bit different than the pattern, yes, it ran a tad small for me also. I double loop braided the edge of the brim. The brim is a bit large and I didn't curl mine at all, I was into buckskinning at the time and it served pretty well as an umbrella, LOL.

Many thanks, that was the site I had but lost when computer committed hara kiri, lol.

I'm looking for a spring retention clip, (fits around the cylinder and is leather covered) for an Old West shoulder holster. I used to have a site on my old computer, but it crashed and burned!

I got some of the short 'spikes' with a screw back, ran the right size screw in, cut the head off, chucked it in a drill and polished the nickel plating off, then used a file (while still in the drill) and turned it down to the proper profile. It sounds difficult, but really isn't. I'd had the spikes for years and years and realized they were brass, so, sandpaper and a file, LOL.

Hello all, New on the site. Been doing leatherwork for about 30 years, off and on and a big black powder shooter. Recently, on another forum, there was a question about making a holster for a Colt Dragoon and the fact that there are few patterns out there for them. Probably re-inventing the wheel here, but, after a little experimentation, I found that if you take the patterns from the old Tandy Percussion Pistol Pattern Pak for the Navy Colt, Army Colt, etc and scan it on a home scanner, enlarge it to 109% and print it out, it is nearly perfect. There is a Walker pattern in the Pak, but, there are some very different dimensions that preclude modification. The proportions of the Dragoon, Navy and Army are nearly identical, just different sizes. Additionally, if you take the same patterns and reduce it to 85% you have patterns for the pocket pistols. With the Dragoon pattern, you will have to cut and piece it then transfer it to posterboard.