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+1 for Goldstar, used both snaps from both Tandy and Springfield Leather in it without issue. have dies for line 20 and 24 snaps and 10mm rivets. all work well.

Going to look at one this weekend. hopefully come home with it. I'll be sure to pass on any information I find out!

Thanks for the comments! I posted the same pictures on my Facebook and had a request for a quote in 2 hours! Can't imagine why I would want or need to be upside down while wearing it lol.

Can't speak for the machine or how to sew it with one but the edges look like they are rolled. There are a couple tutorials somewhere on the site on how to do them. Search for "rolled edge" and it should come up.

Done the same thing with bale twine. Make sure to wear old jeans.....squirrel blood/brains down the leg can make a mess. I'm going to make a few of these up for fall hunting season!

Made the pattern with the instructions from Adams LeatherWorks. The mag carrier I made up as I went along. I should have molded it entirely instead of cutting the corners out. I expect retention issues from the mag carrier as time progresses. Draws and re-holsters easy enough and the retention is excellent. I need to work on my molding a little bit around the trigger area. What else needs work?

WooHoo! I can throw out that poorly designed piece of crap pattern I've been working on!

Thanks for the pattern! I've seen similar one but it used snaps on the back and (when apart) would slip in a briefcase or small bag easily. looks like this one can be used the same way!

LOL I thought the exact same thing. Joking aside i'd be interested in a laser cutter for leather. Can't afford it now but it would be really nice to have around and would allow for more customizations to be done to projects or items that customers would bring in. The bed size is huge consideration for me.

Nice Holster! Where'd you get the extended floor plate? Come standard? Mine has the flat floor plate and i'd like to get my pinky finger wrapped too instead of having it underneath. My G42 IWB is 99% complete, waiting on the hardware to come in....darn weather...

If you are not dyeing the inside you could always apply the oil from flesh side and it will work its way through. Too much oil will cause the same issue though so light layers would be best with a couple days in between to make sure it is absorbing evenly.

Almost every major city in the states has a hackerspace of some kind. The best of them have the capabilities of software to hardware, forging to finishing, and prototype to finished product. haven't been to one yet but have heard that they are pretty friendly and someone is always willing to lend a hand.

I ordered all my hardware from here: hasn't shown up yet, and I don't use hardware for retention but they had everything I wanted/needed and were way cheaper than the hardware store.

Love the title! Plan to tan my next deer. Didn't get a chance to hunt this year. Maybe next season I'll get the chance work some up!

Yes I used what i had. cutting board would work better though. more surface area for the leather to rest on. Mine wrapped a little on the edges of the wood, made it a pain to get those edges molded correctly.

Made one for my P22. don't have a picture of it but I wrapped it up in plastic wrap just enough to keep the moisture from getting to it. then placed it on top of a 1x6 piece of wood in a vacuum bag. Sucked it down tight like I was packaging deer meat and let it set for about 30 minutes while i poked it in a few places with a bone folder to help the leather bend around and get into tighter spaces (trigger guard, ejection port). Cut the bag open and left everything in place to dry. What I learned - 1. make sure the smooth side of the vacuum bag is against the leather. The texturing those bags have are a pain to work out. 2. a couple more layers of plastic wrap wouldn't have hurt. Almost too much retention. I plan to try it again someday after more pressing projects get completed (no pun intended) 3. DO NOT FORGET to make a channel for the front sight.......if i'm not careful it will rack the slide and kick a round out on the ground

I hate to bring up this old thread again but I believe it could save someone lots of headache..... I set up an account with coinbase.com a while back and just had it sitting there ready to go to accept bitcoins as payment for a couple wallets that I was going to make to test the market. I had to enter my bank information in order to get the bitcoin account verified and usable. This morning my account had been cleaned out in less than 2 hours. The bank had identified that the transactions came with the same ID as coinbase.com. Luckily I'll get most of the money back since it was caught early enough. my suggestion - turn away from bitcoin and keep walking. there is enough of a market in USD or any other standard currency to keep us all happy. Best of luck and hope I'm the only one that got bit by this.

If the machine is in working order then they are probably not too bad on price. The throat length is the biggest drawback. Going to pick one up in early march. Hopefully won't lose any fingers or toes getting it moved in. I've heard they can be broke down into 2 pieces for easier moving. I'm no expert and haven't seen one in person so take it for what its worth. Good Luck in your search!

My poundo board is fairly old and stiff, doesn't absorb much sound like I would prefer. No idea on its age. I got it in a box full of tools from someone who attempted to pick up leather working as a hobby about 20 years ago. I found some high density foam I had laying around that came with a suitcase I bought. Its fairly thick and absorbs sound much better. Anything that will put a barrier between the granite and the tabletop will make a difference. When I was in an apartment I never had complaints on sound. Although I didn't stamp late or early and was on the ground floor.

I think you are seriously underestimating your costs. Your test will be just that - a test. And could prove fruitful! The problem is not tanning a hide - anyone can do it with enough time and experience. The problem is when you decide to expand to those hundreds or thousands of sides a year. That requires lots of space, raw materials, equipment, people, and time. A year to produce 1 hide is hobby. Starting a new batch ever week or so to keep up a good supply will mean several hides a week going in and coming out of the process. Lots of work and little time to do much with the hides that are produced. If this is going to be considered a serious inquiry look into supply chain practices. It not easy and does have drawbacks. I've delt with multi-million $ mistakes (not my own thankfully) and they can happen at any point in the process. Which affect EVERYTHING down the line. Available space, work, investments, overtime, and worst of all the bottom line. Those 10,000 different variables will become staggeringly apparent and have to be accounted for in some way. disclaimer: I'm not a tanner and only know of what I've seen on youtube. Lets say you perfect you method and it's scalable to a level that would produce several hundred hides a year (staggered of course to keep up supply). As the hides come in they will need to be stored before processing, as others have mentioned. Depending on the type of hide you procure this will change how much storage and processing is required before they enter the tanks. Large amounts of storage means buildings. Buildings mean thousands of dollars up front. The hides are processed and make it to the tanning tanks. Here they sit...for up to a year. Are they temperature controlled? Is the building heated/cooled? Huge expenses and difficult tasks to address. The hides start coming out of the tanks, Now they need to be stretched, dried, stuffed, whatever the process now requires. A large facility with people to stretch each hide on a rack to be placed either in a dryer or at least in a high air flow environment. Fast forward to the end of the process. The hides have been processed, tanned, dried, finished, and are ready for sale to customers (or used by your company). You need a warehouse to store all of the finished hides. Ideally this would be separated to some degree from the rest of the process. Humidity is your enemy now and everything up to this point has been in a moisture rich environment. the warehouse should store at an absolute minimum of 2x what you can produce. Some will disagree with this but warehouses are useful storage for more than just finished products. Extra hardware and machinery are not small and need to be inside somewhere. if you are planning to produce more than just a couple dozen hides a year you are looking at several thousand to hundreds of thousands a year in investment. If you make something unique that everyone wants. Expect that to potentially jump to millions of dollars a year in investments. big numbers = big responsibility = big risk

From the perspective of someone who grew up raising cattle and sheep. I wouldn't bother with doing it strictly for leather. As others have said it is a lot of work for no more leather you receive. Cattle costs in the US have skyrocketed over the past few years. Which is one of several reasons why Hermann Oak and several other tanneries are bumping up their prices. Everything costs more to raise a calf to market weight. I plan to do something similar in the future but I'm not doing it for the leather. I'm doing it to be more self sufficient. Any leather I make from my own herd will be a by product and will cost much more per sq ft than what I can buy from a supplier. One suggestion is to look for brain tanned deer hides and the price they fetch. Hunters get those as by products and a few take the time to work them up. There is a reason they get up to $25 sq ft. It's a lot of work and they didn't put anything into them besides a bullet, tags, and time.

TheLoudOne - Care to walk us through the process of rendering beef fat? My wife's family butchers their own meat so a couple times a year I have no shortage of fat available.

Yes they are Fastex. I believe they are nylon. They list Nylon and Acetal as materials so I do not believe they are Delrin.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how much shipping has increased from 10 years ago? Doubled? Tripled? More?

I'll have to check Bought a box full at an auction and there are way more than I'll ever use.