SouthernHolsters

I'm in the process of changing my method of operations right now after doing this for 5 years. I have been caught up for 2 weeks now from my custom orders and plan to do some custom and some on the side for "in-stock" in the future. The ability to order custom holsters is still turned off on my website and I will turn it back on in about another week, only allowing maybe 5 custom holsters through at a time. I am doing this because this is not my main source of income. I have a full time job that pays the bills and this gives me play money. Once a year I would stop taking orders just clear the backlog then start it all over again. But the pressure to have orders completed on time took away from my evenings and weekends with my family. I am now free to make some one-offs, experiment with my ideas, or just do nothing for the rest of the day.

http://www.aussie.co...ume-conditioner Does it really add volume? I could save money on leather! LOL For me, exterior: 1 light coat of Neetsfoot oil, 3 coats of 50/50 Resolene/water airbrushed, 1 coat of neutral Angelus shoe wax polish. Interior: 3 coats of 50/50 Resolene/water airbrushed.

Contact ASP and ask about their OEM Red Gun Program. You can buy direct at 50% off list. List for handguns is $47, so you can get them for $23.50 each plus shipping. Catch is, you have to be an OEM. I use them when a Rings Blue Gun is not available.

One word of caution if you plan on the selling holsters. Out of respect for Nossar Gunleather, I would not use that "foot print" as your logo. You can check out the site here. I replied on your other topic about adding leather washers. One way to overcome the dye issue is to apply the dye with an airbrush. Other than that, it looks pretty good.

I make washers out of leather and put them between the loop and the holster. This keeps the waistband of the pants from "scrunching up" in the area.

Instead of why not? Ask why? It's a marketing gimmick. I don't know how much of a curve, how many your curves, where your curves are at, or if you have any curves, to make a curved belt. And if you wear your pants around your knees...what kind of curve does that take? Personally, I don't want my pants forced to droop or rise on the sides, the back, or in the front. I like my pants to be even all the way around. I used to make gun belts and wear one I made for myself. I like the professional look of a straight belt being worn. If you want to get into curved gun belts, have the customer send you how many, where, degree of curvature, up/down of the curves they want, and a picture and see if "a straight belt will do" is the answer. I know my wife and I don't have "the same curves and a "one size fits all" does not when applied to curved belts.

Thanks guys. It doesn't take as long as stamping out a design, but I can get more detail in the confined space of the holster. Once I'm done with my current orders, I plan to experiment with some 2-tone dye designs and not go so dark or heavy with the dye.

As I am getting to the end of finishing the orders from for custom holsters and focusing on making holsters for in stock, tightening up my patterns, and making improvements, I'm looking at going "new school" and adding dyed designs to the line up. This was one of 2 done at a request of a customer that shipped out this past week. It involves cutting a mask (stencil) out with CAD cutter, weeding out the areas that I want to dye, applying the mask to the leather, and airbrushing the dye over it. Let it dry and peel the mask off. Peeling the mask of is a little more involved as it is not a traditional stencil as there are no connecting pieces, but smaller pieces of mask that have to be removed. The holster was made for a 1911. It reads" Live Free or Die", has a skull and other design elements.

I had searched for black t-nuts before with no luck. For me, the only part that would need to be black is the flat back side.

Thanks. I use 8/9 oz.

Oh, about 2.5 hrs. If you looked at what I charged him, you would think it took a half hour. :D

Thanks, guys. I use the Model 5 from Neels Saddlery

Here is a holster packed and ready to be shipped out to an officer coming back from Iraq in a couple of weeks. He ordered so it wold be there when he got home. It's for a full size railed 1911. I had fun with this one as the outcome reminds me of a fossil. The black is dye, not paint, which made it stand out. Hope you enjoy it.

Since I've heard these statements as well, I emailed ASP a week and a half ago and this is the response I received. "The Red Guns we mold are very close to the actual gun but they can vary slightly probably up to .010". The other thing to be concerned about is on the training guns we make we reinforce some areas, especially the trigger guard. That's something you would have to check out too" When I enquired about the "reinforcement", I received this: "By reinforcing I mean adding extra material to areas like the trigger guard and behind the trigger. We will add material to the inside of the trigger guard to make it thicker. That normally doesn't interfere with putting the gun in the holster. We also have a solid web of material behind the trigger that will reinforce that."