bladegrinder

I bought Cowboy 4500 from Bob at Toledo Industrial last year and it was up and running out of the box. I never ran a sewing machine so it took a while to get comfortable using it but now I love this thing.

Thanks Diesel but with the past experiences I've had with imported leather, I'll never use it again.

I just started antiquing my holsters. I vacuum form them so when they go in to the vacuum bag their soaked. I wait until the holster is completely finished then apply a coat of tan coat, when that's dry I apply the antique. this way you have to be careful of where it goes. I usually use white stitching so I put blue tape over the stitching and carefully apply the antique where I want it and wipe it off carefully too. later when it's FULLY dry I apply another coat of tan coat. I use Resolene on all my holsters and knife sheaths and I put a final coat of that on with an air brush.

A lot of great information here JLS, thanks. I recently had a request for a pancake holster with a snap strap over the hammer like in one of your pictures here. do you use "pull the dot" snaps on those? and do you use those round plastic protectors on the inside of the snap?

So in February I got an order for two holsters, I've been using 6-7 oz and wanted to go heavier with any new ones so I ordered 12 sq ft. of 8-9 oz. I ordered on Feb 19th. between the time getting it out the door and getting lost by USPS I finally got it and it was awful, totally unacceptable. OK, it was B grade but out of 12 sq ft, maybe 4 sq ft. was usable, so a call to the company and it was on it's way back. after the replacement rides around with USPS for a while it arrived yesterday, March 12th and it is 100% better then the first one so now I'm happy. Better late then never, but this is the second time this has happened to me with this company over the years with leather that should have never left their doors. I don't want to trash this company here because they made it right for me but I'm done ordering leather from them. So my question here is to everyone and especially folks who go thru side after side a year making a living at leather work, I've now decided to just order full sides of grade A leather. Could I get recommendation's of dealers that can be relied on for consistently delivering high quality Herman Oak leather with out having to cross my fingers every time i make an order?

That looks great! I really like the dual shell holder too!

Very nice, that looks great!

I’ve had it happen here once and a couple times on other forums. I’m not real good at typing and giving a long description on how to do something or asking someone how something was done and not getting a reply is pretty rude, in my opinion, but is is the internet so you never really know what to expect. I just kind of ignore the folks that do this and don’t ask anymore questions of them or answer any of theirs.

That looks great, very nice tutorial.

A couple times when people have tried to low ball me on prices I’ve asked them if they have any jewelry, when they give that kind of dumbfounded stunned look I tell them I take guns,gold, silver, everything but bitcoin, that usually has them moving along.

I would have said, the best I could do for you is $250 now. There’s lots of clowns in the general public and a lot of what I call ham and eggers, some items no matter what they are need to be presented to people that are in the circle with the item that’s for sale rather then the general public. I read somewhere years ago about a study done that showed a large percentage of the population is certified nuts.

One of my main reasons for moving to the rural woods three years ago.

That looks great!

Welcome! Lived in Delaware county back in the 70s.

Yep, a light brown dye with medium brown antique would look good.

Jesus was wearing a crown of thorns when he was crucified, the spikes in the middle were used to nail him to the cross.

Looks good!, welcome from rural N. Florida.

That looks great!, Well done!

Two blondes are out at a farm. The one blonde is sitting in a row boat in the middle of a corn field, the other blond yells at her…what are doing out there in a boat? Get back here, we have work to do. The blond in the boat starts yelling and cussing at her. The other blonde near the farm house yells, if I could swim I’d come out there and smack you silly!

Nice!, I’m sure you’ll love it….after the learning curve, be patient.

That looks great, I’ve seen those used for bows too.

Very nice!

Looks good! nice work.

Thanks Bolt, I have added sight channels for the couple revolvers holsters I’ve done. I haven’t done them for Glocks or the few 1911s I’ve done, for those they seem to work ok without sight channels.

Mines braided