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Madmax500000

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  1. Thank you all for your gracious comments. 
    samalan: to your question regarding the boarder stamp I found that the particular stamp I was using didn’t like tight corners. Plus I kind of like the way it added some diversity to the pattern. I’ve seen it done somewhere else before and I thought it worked well I that situation. I later learned that if you run a beveler down the inside edge of the meandering boarder it’s helps a ton. 
    yin: I spent a lot of time on those leafs. I drew them as rounded tips. I think if I ever do a pattern with that many oak leafs again I’ll go with a more pointed leaf tip. I do like the way they turned out though there’s a lot of depth in them. 


  2. So I haven’t posted in a while which means I’ve been busy. Business is going good I’m hoping if thing keep growing like they have this time next year I can quit my day job. Only time will tell. 
    ok so this is a rifle scabbard I finished about 2 months ago. It was made for a Kentucky long rifle. The customer wanted something he could hike with up in the pacific north west cascade mountains. It was definitely my most ambitious job so far. I did a lot of head scratching trying to get all my assembly steps in order and plan out all my tooling designs. The hardest part was I only had measurements to go off of for the rifle. I never was able to find a rifle in my area to compare to my pattern. 
    it was made from 8-9 oz w&c with a bark tanned shearling liner. Stitched with my cobra class 4 using 277 white bonded thread. Fiebings saddle tan dye, And dark brown antique paste using fiebings pro resist as my resist for the antique. 
    please give me critique if you something I can improve on. 
    thanks. 

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  3. 8 hours ago, Viking said:

    Man - I love it!!! (But I wouldn’t trust a Rhino as a field revolver...) 

    I’d love to see it with a S&W or a Ruger ...

    Well it’s not my revolver. I just built the holster. I don’t know the specifics of that firearm.  As long as the holster does it’s intended purpose safely that’s all that matters to me. 

    I can build you one for your ruger or S&W. 


  4. 2 hours ago, Hildebrand said:

    Any chance of seeing the back?  I would like to see how you made and attach  that wing on the back that your straps attach to. Great work.

    Thank you,

    Todd

    If you look at the second picture you can see how it’s attached to the back of the holster. It’s sewn on before the liner is glued. The wing as you have now dubbed it really makes a huge difference in how the holster feels and hugs your torso. It gives you a lot more freedom in movement compared to a rigid attachment point on the holster. 


  5. So my latest custom holster is by far one of my favorites. All veg tan holster is 6-7 oz wit 1-2 oz liner. Padded suede inlays on shoulder strap and rear yoke. With an adjustable cobra style buckle. All machine stitched on a cobra class 4. My new best friend. The most challenging part of the whole process was finding a mold gun for the holster. They don’t exist for that model. Had to work with a custom 3D printer adnfd then cross reference those cad files to the actual firearm to make sure everything was correct. 

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  6. So I’ve been searching for a machine to help speed things up with projects I have going on. And also allow me to tackle bigger projects I’ve been putting off due to the amount of time it would have taken to hand stitch. Almost bought a cowboy 3200 a few weeks ago but held off thinking something might show up locally. Well it did. I found a new never used cobra class 4 with all the extras a few miles away. Guy said make an offer I told him I had $2000 and he said come get it. It’s now in its new home and works like a champ. Has to be one of the best deals I’ve ever come across at least to my benefit. 


  7. I was gifted a box of boot tops in trade for a purse made out of some of them earlier this year. I had been putting it off due to not having a machine capable of the task. Still don’t have the machine I need but I’m working on that. There is definitely a learning curve in bag building but I learned a few things in the process. All in all it turned out better than I had expected. All part of the purse are up-cycled from other items except the strip of veg tan around the bottom. Kinda nice to give something a new life. Everything was sewn on a Japanese singer 15 clone. 

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