CaptQuirk

That wood finish looks vaguely familiar It looks like you hit the sweet spot and turned out a nice strap. Out of curiosity, you doing a lot of straps?

That is beautiful work there! But yeah, aside from putting the cell pocket behind the holster, that is very much what I had in mind. What did you use for the main body of the bag?

No, from me. It seems like everybody has a laser except me. I even heard about a guy who has freakin sharks with freakin lasers on their heads...

I sense some laser envy here...

I really have no pattern right now. But that is just too cool NOT to want to do one. Knowing what you likely need to do for your machine, when I find something I really want, I can do some of the grunt work and save you the headache.

It's what I do... Not really, but glad I could help just the same.

I bet it did. I've done stuff like that making masks for video and green screen rotoscoping. About my least favorite thing to do.

@Willie0-, if you're going to mention it, go ahead and put up a pic? I'd love to see it. And mad respect for a lady with a .45

Here's a tip that helped me find that in 2 minutes- I typed in "double capped rivets with star design", then went to images. There will be a hundred pictures of all sorts of rivets, but I just clicked on the first one that loaded. If you stick with web search, you'll again have a few hundred returns, but 95% of those returns will have nothing to do with what you really want. My connection is slow... 28.8 k dial up slow, so I didn't wait for most images to load.

Hey Tom- I could do that for him, and I need to be in the Atlanta area this weekend anyways. I'll PM you.

http://www.ivan.tw/index.php Google is your friend

Holy Hell! That is outright AWESOME! If'n somebody, say another leather worker, was wanting a design lasered... how much would you charge for something like that?

@CowboyDan- I'm thinking cross body straps might also be good since snatch and grabs are fairly common.

I don't know... I came out of Florida an I'm pretty dang nice And I heard about something green coming out of G'Ville that is supposed to be really good too. Against my wishes, the wife chose Midwives who graduated from UF. I made sure they knew how I felt. There was really no question about it, when the wife went in for a C Section, and there was the FSU Seminole painted on her belly, with "Nole Parking Only" underneath it. Sooo... how you liking pyrography?

When I was a kid, I found a small oval buckle in my Uncle's basement. It was a US buckle from the civil war. I ended up with said buckle, and spent years trying to find out more about it. It is brass, and has 3 prongs.2 of the prongs held it to the belt, and one went in the adjustment hole, but it didn't match any of the belt buckles I could find. Turns out it isn't a belt buckle, but was used on a strap for crates. This has absolutely nothing to do with this topic, but I thought I'd share anyways

I don't have the bandwidth for video. Out here, cell signals get lost if the wind blows.

Ok, here is a very simplified line drawing of what I have in mind. It is very simplified, because Photoshop really isn't meant for doing paths, and it is hard to concentrate and put a lot of effort into anything when you are in serious pain. The bottom and sides are one piece. If I go with a fancy lighter leather, I'd likely add a second piece to the bottom for strength. The front and rear panels would be heavier leather. You will notice that the rear has two panels, a heavy outer panel with top flap, and lighter inner panel on the inside. It is between these two pieces, that would form the pocket for the holster, attached to the rear panel. This back panel was the one I was worried about not being able to support the weight of the pistol. The top, bottom, and left side would be closed, leaving the right side open for access to said holster, as marked by the red square. I would have a flap with a snap from the back panel to the ride side panel (Not shown here) to secure the pistol pocket. Fold down the ear/tabs on the side, add rings, sew, add strap to rings. So...?

Thanks again Nv, you are doing a bang up job answering my questions, and the advice sprinkled with amusing anecdotes is great!

Ah, see. All this was before the C Rations, so that makes perfect sense. And on a side note, they were still passing out C Rations when I was in Basic Training in the 80's. It was a game to see who had the oldest dated can at any given meal. I remember having fruit from 1940something, and discovering the inspiration behind Dr Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham. ps, my chief weapon is surprise, with a side of big freaking rock

Sorry I couldn't be more help. The only reason I checked into this post, was hoping to get some info on leather burning. So... I'm still waiting. And there are two good things that come from Gainesville. Tom Petty is one, and the Florida Gators ain't the other

Father, may I have a pony? No Tony, you may not have a pony.

That looks pretty solid to me. As far as keeping the jaws shut, there is another user here that made a cam setup on their's that is just awesome. Search the posts for "pony", I think you might find it.

I like it, even though I have never heard the name before. Is it a document type bag?

@dirkba- I just gotta ask... what kind of stuff do you hunt down there?

That I really couldn't tell you. I have never tried pyrography, only heard some mention of it. I sort of wanted to try it, but haven't gotten around to it... I'd likely procrastinate about it, but keep putting it off? However, I do have experience burning my hands on stuff, and learned that modern science has developed gloves for people like me. I'd like to give you a review on how well these gloves work... but I haven't gotten around to actually buying a pair yet.