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My wife tells me I can see my mistakes because I look at things from 6 inches. It looks a lot different from a couple of feet. You will always see something that you could do better. Nice job!

Wife, daughter in law, 2 grand daughters, 3 little girls down the street, and very nice young lady and her fiance across the street. Yep, I get it. And happy to be able to do it. The smiles are worth more to me than I can say.

Very cool. I'm in the process of making a holster, double mag pouch, and belt with suspenders for my XDm for practical pistol matches. I'm liking the basket weave, I use it on most of my holster reinforcing pieces. Nice job!

Welcome! I make a few holsters and knife sheaths myself.

Good point about the metal clip. He wears it in the front so shouldn't be a problem though. I'll have to look at alternatives. Thanks about the barettes too.

These are for a golf buddy. He just bought the Bersa and was torn between IWB and KWB carry. I built both and he was very happy.

I'm getting more of the larger handguns. This is a Ruger 44mag with a Leopold scope. I made the first one to cover the scope.it turned out nice, but he wanted an open top that left the scope uncovered. Well, now we're talking a lot of cow, but he said he'd take both so,,, here we are. I didn't feel that a regular pancake type holster would be stiff enough with an open top. So I went with about a 1/2 in welt on bottom to provide the stiffness I felt was needed. I had to change the attachment points to the rear andi think it came out pretty well. I hope to take more pics tomorrow, but we'll see.

Very nice job!

I like it, and yes a bit long. I leave mine at 4" past the first hole. Better than being short like my first one was!

Very sweet! Is that lasered?

Very nice! I might have to look at one of those. We have cougar and bear around here.

Just finished this one for a fishing buddy. S&W M&P Shield 9mm Tech stuff; HO 7/8 oz Fiebings pro dye light and dark brown Fiebings Resolene 50/50 with water Sewn on a cobra class 3, Superior 277 bonded nylon top and bottom I use a vacuum bag for the initial set, then hand tool till I'm satisfied. Tooling is a simple basket weave. And that is a very old asbestos cast iron iron holding it up.

At least it's not crocodile teeth! Looks good!

I think it is a "look" as much as a function. I like the look of it, doesn't seem to add much to the time of assembly, so why not?

Very nice Chuck! This is a great use of "left overs"!

I'm liking that!

I also use small pieces to imprint our makers mark. On thinner leather, my wife uses them for tags on the bags she makes. She puts a sticker on the back of them with a price on it. Others, we rivet them on as a makers mark.

It's cool to see the various uses. I've learned a thing or two.

I think they look great! At this age my lederhosen have a stretch waistband!

I mainly build holsters and knife sheathes. It's not really a business for me, more a busy hobby to pay for my leather addiction. And in building these things I generate a bunch of scrap. I use some for ball markers for my golf buddies, and a few other things. I recently found a use for the leftover ends of belt straps other than dog collars. A sand bottle/thermos holder that snaps on a golf bag or push cart. I can see this being used in several other ways as well. Another thing I have seen is the ovals for holding hair up. I am working on a few different sizes for these as well. Nope, not my hair..

I think you did great. I have a lot of tools now, but started much the same way. As you advance you will learn now to make things work for you and you will acquire tools as you go. I have been doing this for a few years now and still couldn't pass up the chance to do 2 knife sheathes in exchange for about 30 vintage stamping tools. Ma y are beyond repair, but some are very cool. Keep it up!

I've made many of the wet molded sheaths and they work very well.

I'm not a big fan of drilling either but, I have used a 4p nail in the drill press. I cut the head off then used a file to sharpen it. Then sandpaper smooth. It doesn't cut so much as part as an awl would. Very nice work !

Thanks for the kind words. I'm really a holster and knife sheath guy, but try to do other things as well. This is a pattern I made for 3.5 x 5 (ish?) note pad. The piece on the left was originally intended to be sewn in half for two business card slots. But, when I did this I didn't want to sew down the middle of the front, so just made the bigger curve. It would maybe be better with a spiral note pad but, I had these "write in the rain" pads hanging around.

I have one large shelf over my tooling desk. I am soooooo stealing this idea.