bladegrinder

Mines braided

I believe he’s talking about just the lever, I have a 336 that I bought used that came with what I believe is a factory wrap on the lever. It’s what’s called a big loop lever like the rifle used on the show “the rifleman”

I got mine from @RockyAussie.

The 365X and 365X macro have a different grip profile then the 365, it’s larger. When I got mine I handled a 365 and it was to small for me, the 365X feels completely different.

That looks like one of those killer rabbits from the Monty Python show.

Thanks Jason, if and when I use it it’ll be hand stitched, I have a CB4500 and I’m pretty concerned about running sting ray thru it. I’ve had that CZ75 over 30 years now, a guy at a gun show had a military crate with about 50 of them new in the box, I think I paid $225.00 for it and it turned out to be one of my most accurate and fun guns to shoot.

That looks great! Did you stitch that by hand or machine? I’ve read stitching with a machine can push chips of the ray skin down into the hook-bobbin area? I have a lot of ray skin from years ago and I’ve still never used it. I’ve got a 365X that I’ve been thinking about putting one of those sights on, I also have a CZ75B but I don’t carry it, it’s one of my most accurate handguns but it’s pretty heavy, if I’m going to carry a heavy gun I take my 1911. That holster you have there looks great!

Looks like rabbit.

That looks very good!

Two old ladies are sitting on a park bench smoking cigarettes when it starts raining, the one old lady pulls a condom out of her purse, cuts the tip off and slides it over her cigarette to keep it dry and keeps puffing away. the other lady says, wow! that's a great idea, where did you get that? the old lady replies, it's a condom, you can buy them at any pharmacy. So next week when the other old lady goes to the pharmacy to pick up her medications she tells the nice young pharmacist "I'd like to buy a condom too", the young guy, kind of surprised say's well...good for you! we sell different sizes, do you know what size you need? The old lady replies, it needs to fit a Camel.

Looks great!

The speed dial might have a set screw in it that came loose, Check for that and maybe see if you can pull that knob off and just turn the shaft behind it with pliers or something and see if that changes your speed

Looks great, I don't have kids so mine just sits on a table next to me but that's a great idea.

If you do a search for "vacuum bag" you'll find a video Dwight made and posted, I don't know how to copy the link here, but In making mine I pretty much did it just like in his video, it works great!

A friend of mine had a friend over his house drinking, he fell down some steps and broke his arm. all was good at the hospital until his insurance company found out where it happened. my friend got sued by the other guys insurance company. in this case my friends homeowners insurance took care of it. I never asked but I'm sure his rates went up.

Thanks JLS, like I told Walter, those ends just appear to be closed in the picture. I didn't dye the slots because I was worried it might bleed out to the front or back. the brown holster is oil tanned from the sun, I didn't want to risk having the dye weep out to the front or back.

Thanks Walter, actually the toe isn't closed it just looks kind of like that in the picture. the holster is about 3/4" longer then the gun slide so the vacuum bag pulled the ends in, there's still an opening there. That Elephant hide is nice looking, I tried dying a small piece but it didn't look good at all. I believe this is tanned the natural color. I'd say this was about 3oz. it seems easy to work with but there is zero stretch,even when wet.

Those look great! Nice work.

That looks ok for a first Diesel, my first had a lot of mistakes that I realized after it was finished. it sill worked and I use it around my property but what JLS and Hags is saying is spot on. I draw a pattern on construction paper exactly like JLS has shown here. and like Hags said, you want good clearance for the grip and especially the mag release. after you make a few the lights will come on. but I would stitch it up prior to wet molding. one other thing I do it after it's been wet formed I leave the gun in it and let my vacuum pump run a couple extra minutes to help pull some water out of the leather, then I let it rest out in the air with the gun still in it for about 15 minutes, then I pull the gun carefully and place the holster in a pid controlled toaster oven on a piece of cardboard set at 150 degrees. I flip it every 30 minutes till it feels pretty dry but more importantly, the leather hardens. you have to be careful doing this or you'll have leather jerky. once the holster cools and probably shrinks a little I put the gun in a 1 gallon ziploc bag and force it into the holster, 24 hours later it fits like a glove in a nice firm holster.

Wow! Very nice maul!

Thanks Diesel, I mark my stitch line around the gun from the pattern, then do the stamping. Thanks Hags!

These are both for a Glock 19, the first one has an Elephant hide overlay. the second one is a standard holster. Thanks for looking!

Very nice work on those holsters!

Ron told the wife he was really excited about the upcoming four day hunting trip, that's all he talked about, the night before he left he asked his wife to pack his clothes. so the next day he had all his deer hunting stuff in the truck, wife wished him good luck and off he went. After four days of hard drinking and gambling with his friends in Vegas he went home and the wife asked how it was staying out in the cold woods hunting, and did he get anything. he said, well I took a few shots at some nice deer but somehow I missed, I guess my scope is off, other then that it was kind of boring. but you must have forgot to pack my socks, I couldn't find any socks with my cloths. his wife say's, I put five pairs right on top of your rifle inside your gun case.

It seems like nothing is made in America anymore. I just bought a TV and it said, built in antenna...I don't even know where that is.