Dwight

I like it, . . . but it makes my fingers hurt, . . . all that hand stitching........... Good job, . . . good perseverance. May God bless, Dwight

My apologies, indidana, . . . I guess I missed the part about returning for his money back. Got any idea what he paid for it?? May God bless, Dwight

I don't understand the problem: cut the stitches, . . . remove the screw / rivet / stuff. Voila, . . . you have a pattern. It's actually looks like a takeoff of a Thad Ribka holster, . . . called a Rhodesian, . . . which are all considered to be great from what I've ever seen. I make a similar holster for small automatics, . . . it works really well for M&P Shields and smaller pistols. May God bless, Dwight

If you have the gun, . . . use the search function here, . . . make yourself a pancake, . . . a simple two piece holster, . . . with the gun in the middle. Add a couple of metal clips, . . . one on each end, . . . voila, . . . IWB holster that will work. This will then give you the personal information as to what you DO like about it and what you DO NOT like about it, . . . so then you can make one that suits you, . . . your way. If you look on my website, . . . my "Cactus" holster evolved in a similar fashion, . . . and is super comfortable, . . . even all day in the heat of the summer, . . . with an all steel 1911 commander in the saddle. Good luck, may God bless, Dwight

Thanks, Art, . . . appreciate the effort my friend, . . . but Bruce uses a washer with his split rivets, . . . and they seemed to be flat headed. The rivets I have are solid brass (or bronze??), . . . have a domed head, . . . and when they were set, . . . the tips of the legs were driven down into the leather so the legs, . . . if you looked at a side view, . . . would resemble a rounded "M". That would prevent the tips from snagging on anything. My opinion is they were put on with some kind of special setting tool, . . . as they were all way too uniform to have been done by hand. It's really no big deal, . . . I was just wondering if anyone knew of using them, . . . as it would maybe give me a date for the ax and when it was used. Got a suspicion it's an old timer. Joet, . . . are those the type of rivets you have??? May God bless, Dwight

Leonguaranipy, . . . just passing on what was given to me. I had the same problem with my first painted holster, . . . made for a special friend of mine, . . . did not know how to get it done. Manager of local Tandy store told me, . . . the rest is history. May God bless, Dwight

Plus, . . . they are not above getting something for you. They're good people to deal with. May God bless, Dwight

I have done basically what you are asking, . . . using Resolene to seal the leather, . . . then paint the Resolene. May God bless, Dwight

Today, I took apart an OLD, . . . old, . . . ax sheath, . . . from the C. C. C. & S. . . . whoever they were, . . . to fix it up for a friend. The thing was put together with brass rivets (for want of a better name) that had a head on one side, . . . then split in the middle, . . . and each had two legs and were pounded out flat on the other side, . . . holding the leather pieces together. Anybody got any kind of an idea about how old this thing might be? It was really dry, . . . so I gave it a dose of oil, . . . after I took it all apart. Going to put it back together for him next week, . . . just was hoping somebody could share a bit of info. Thanks, may God bless, Dwight

Sometimes I groove, . . . sometimes I just dampen the leather, . . . set my pair of dividers, . . . outline the edges with the dividers, . . . then I have a tendency to have a much better looking stitch line regardless of which tool I used. A stitch groover also takes off that all important top layer of leather, . . . and on really thin leather like a wallet, . . . or some purses, . . . it can seriously weaken the overall product. May God bless, Dwight

Poor gator.............. Seriously, . . . really good looking rig, . . . you did your profession well. May God bless, Dwight

Deanimator, . . . if you go to my website, . . . you can see the holster, . . . where it rides, . . . how high it rides, . . . and how well it conceals as a tuckable IWB. It is the holster I wear 98% or so of the time, . . . there are a couple others I use occasionally, . . . but "occasionally" is the operative word there. If you want it to be comfortable in virtually all positions, . . . it has to be flat backed for most people. Now there are some chubby folks out there who have enough of a "cushion" that you could put a Ma Deuce down their pants and it wouldn't bother them, . . . but for most of us, . . . the flat backing is the key for comfort at about any position. Try looking on the main page: www.dwightsgunleather.com May God bless, Dwight

I would really suggest you try the kit first. No they are not tooled, . . . you do that too. Once you've made a couple of kits, . . . you will then have a better idea if you want to continue in leather, . . . and won't have a big cash outlay if you decide to pursue basketweaving or some other endeavor. May God bless, Dwight

Hey, Guys, . . . thanks a bunch, . . . think I'll find one in one of those places. Still don't know for sure if I'll need it, . . . went out and looked on Ebay earlier, . . . just didn't have that "comfy" feeling about it. But anyway, . . . thanks again. May God bless, Dwight

Anybody got a good source for a raccoon skin? I may be needing one for a project, . . . need to find a source. Thanks, may God bless, Dwight

Red Cent will have to beat me to this one, . . . I don't have one on the place that is finished, . . . and after looking at all the pictures I have, . . . nothing is really suitable to show it. I may have a job coming up for one, . . . I'll make a note to get some pics then. May God bless, Dwight

This is about all I ever saw as a kid growing up, . . . in the '50s, . . . except for those the police carried, . . . and many times they were very, very similar but were black. This is a Heiser holster, . . . and was laced around the outside edge, . . . the ones I saw were all sewn along the edge. May God bless, Dwight This is about all I ever saw as a kid growing up, . . . in the '50s, . . . except for those the police carried, . . . and many times they were very, very similar but were black. This is a Heiser holster, . . . and was laced around the outside edge, . . . the ones I saw were all sewn along the edge. May God bless, Dwight

No insignia on it, . . . in fact everything but the New Jersey is not ID'd. The manager of a local VFW gave it to me, . . . it actually is a beer promotional poster, . . . they had one for WW2, Korea, 'Nam, and the sand box, . . . I talked him out of this one, . . . cut up a bamboo fishing rod, . . . framed it, . . . It reminds me from time to time just how well I've been protected.............. May God bless, Dwight

If I was doing MC chaps for the lower half of my legs, . . . I'd just rip out the seam in my jeans, . . . sew the leather to the jeans, . . . sew the seam back up and be done with it. I took the seam out of two pairs of jeans a couple years ago, . . . lined them puppies from top to bottom, . . . and they are so warm, can't wear em any length of time in a warm house. May God bless, Dwight

I like to use the hammer and dome the outside piece, . . . but inside where it will rub on a gun magazine, . . . cell phone, . . . etc. . . . I prefer them to be flat. I've got several pieces of steel and lumber out there in the shop, . . . some specifically sized to go right into the box. I also made a tool that uses a small paper clip, . . . I slip the rivet into it, . . . goes down into the pouch and out the hole, . . . slip in the lumber, then the steel piece, . . . pull out the tool, . . . put on the cap, . . . SMACK, . . . done. I believe it was an M14 magazine pouch that I first did this with. Double cap rivets are what I've just always called rivets: May God bless, Dwight

I make similar boxes for cell phones, . . . magazine carriers, . . . etc. I set the rivet by sliding a piece of lumber in the pouch, . . . then a 1/4 or 3/8 inch piece of flat stock steel, . . . one smack with a hammer, . . . rivet is set. I can set that rivet with a hammer faster than I can even think about doing it with the setter. Just the way I do things. . . . works for me. May God bless, Dwight

Actually, . . . the original plan was for a table with drawers or a lifting top, . . . something where my leather would lay flat. I wound up not having as big a place for that table as I felt I needed, . . . had to look for another way, . . . got the inspiration just as I was getting ready to make that wall, . . . and as the saying goes, . . . the rest is history. What I really like, . . . is once it has hung in there for a couple of days, . . . most of the curl from being rolled goes away, . . . and it makes life easier down on the cutting table. Good luck.... May God bless, Dwight

My source said he was all but thrown out on his ear, . . . hoping for a bus to get him before he bounced, . . . But we all know how those stories get manipulated to agree with the teller's point of view. He did agree, though, with the earlier post about folks having a party because of the news. My only hope is that this bodes well for us as consumers of their products. May God bless, Dwight

I am not going to be one of those dozen posts, . . . but I would encourage you not to give up on the weldwood. I personally have never had your experience, . . . BUT, . . . we don't do things alike either. My belts, . . . like yours, . . . get a coat on each piece of leather, . . . but I force dry mine, . . . with a heat gun, . . . and they are not tacky, . . . they are DRY. You can take a cotton ball all the way from one end to the other, . . . you will not lose one fiber of cotton to a tacky place when I am getting ready to put my belt pieces together, . . . and owing to the heat gun, . . . they will be slightly warm. I put them together, . . . and my marble rolling pin comes out, . . . after I have first "set" them together with the palms of my hands. My opinion, . . . you got some foreign something or other in that weldwood, . . . and the same thing will happen again, . . . regardless of the brand, . . . if the new stuff is equally contaminated. In almost 50 years of using contact cement, . . . I did get one bad can once, . . . a couple years back, . . . worked good at first, . . . then seemingly overnight it got all thick and stringy, . . . totally unuseable, . . . I pitched it and did not look back. I've never used Barges because I like weldwood, . . . understand it, . . . am familiar with it, . . . and am not with Barges. BUT, . . . best wishes on whatever decision you make. May God bless, Dwight

Actually, . . . what I have is nothing more than a big box, . . . almost 8 feet tall, . . . 4 feet wide, . . . 12 inches deep. I have racks inside, . . . that swing, . . . allowing me to pick what ever piece I want for this item, project, or task. Really pretty simple when you come down to it, . . . and as I said before, . . . was putting up a wall anyway, . . . just made it thicker and hollow, . . . serves as my "vault", . . . so to speak. May God bless, Dwight