snubbyfan

First Project? Fantastic job!

Very nice, good job. I'm lookin' forward to seeing what ya come up with next.

A filler is kinda like a welt for a holster. I generally don't use fillers, I did on this holster because I thought it'd look good. The customer wanted a pretty rig for wearing to barbecues. I thought a burnished filler'd add mass, look good and make the holster stiffer. I just eyeball my fillers and welts, so I couldn't tell ya how wide it was but I think it came out kinda nice. These two are for field use and neither have a filler. They fit a 6" S&W L frame and a 5" Springfield 1911, I was able to get a proper fit without a filler and with a little wet molding.

Something like that all comes down to the details. Stitch lines, edges and finish. I'll get pics up when it's done but don't hold your breath. I'm taking the weekend off to spend some time with my wife.

Thanks, the holster does snuggle the gun right into my side. The dye's Fiebings Professional Oil dye in saddle tan. It's the leather that's different. I tried out a double shoulder of 9 ounce that was factory finished on the flesh side. The grain side's darker also. These two holsters were dyed out of the same bottle of saddle tan with two different kinds of leather.

Sometimes simple has it's own beauty. I'm working on a 1 1/4" double layer dress/gun belt. The customer wants it black with black stitches and no tooling. It's coming out pretty nice.

Looks good, nice and clean.

Very nice, the dye work's even, the tooling's sharp, nicely finished edges and straight stitch line. Something like that, I probably would have made without a stitch groove, casting my stitches over to accentuate the angle of the stitches and make them a bit more decorative.

Istoyi! Same thing he said but in Blackfoot.

Looks fantastic.

Zombie holster. Poor thing looks ill. Nice holster, after I get caught up, I'm thinkin' of making a blue jean colored, pancake style concealment holster

Nice job on the stitch line and dye work, looks good. If the design works for you, that's great. I like to design my holsters so they drop away from the grip.

Or skive the leather thinner

Same thing here. After I made my first wet molded pouch and showed it to people at work, they started throwing money at me to make leather multi-tool pouches for them. Now I'm on gun related forums and I get orders for holsters, knife sheaths and belts. I don't advertise but I'm thinking of making some things to sell on etsy. I do set up a vendor's booth at fairs and festivals in the area and get orders from that.

That's a pretty good idea, I never would have thought of it.

That's what people keep calling me, I just had to look it up.

I always use Loc-Tite, screws always seem to have a way of working themselves loose. About rivets, your hardware looks more substantial than the stuff I use.

Looks good, I personally prefer hand stitching or chicago screws over rivets. Rivets can deform and loosen over time.

From Wikipedia: An artisan (from French: artisan, Italian: artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates things by hand that may be functional or strictly decorative, for example furniture, decorative arts, sculptures, clothing, jewellery, household items and tools or even mechanical mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork movement of a watchmaker. Artisans practice a craft and may through experience and aptitude reach the expressive levels of an artist.

Monica makes a good point. After I made my first molded pouch from that $20 hunk of leather with my first set of "tools," I took it to work to show people. To my surprise and delight, people started throwing money at me to make something similar for their multi-tools. Now I cringe at that stitch line.

It's nicely done and finished. Maybe I'm just an ignorant ol' Injun but it looks like the guns in the holster backwards to me. When I make a fold over holster, the trigger generally goes on the side with the seam. Maybe it's made that way for hammer clearance?

I'd say to start with the basics. You probably have many of the skills already, making and following a pattern, cutting the material, dying, stitching and finishing. Personally, I needed a holster so I got myself a scratch awl, sturdy scissors, some blind cord, a snap set and a $20 hunk of leather. That was many years ago and now, my last restocking order was over $300, and I forgot to order some 1/4" Chicago screws.

Nice, I like that sheath stitched to it for a smaller knife.

That's beautiful, looks like Wayne's gonna have a good Christmas.

Also; http://www.crazycrow.com/latigo-leather