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thanks for taking the time to do this. What do the numbers mean? 89 = arm hair shaving ? 524= a dull fro?

i was just thinking of the coincidence. You posting your belt scrap wallet and this post . Both the exact same idea handled differently with different techniques. Quilted leather bags could sell really well IMO.

you can do it! your dad did it.

amazing work!!!!

of course thats the fun part!!! i use an old ice cream maker to tumble my brass.

When i was a young boy my folks had a good friend ( Morris Lundbeck) here that was a retired engineer, he ran a big boy on the route from from Cheyenne to Rawlins its now in the city park In Cheyenne where 4014 was rebuilt. He was an awesome man and one of my inspirations. He worked his way to the US from Denmark as a young man on a sailing ship, then worked his way to Wyoming where he worked in a blacksmith shop here in town until getting his education and a job on the U.P. some time in the 70's My dad was given his uncles sheep wagon when he died as soon as Morris saw it he laughed and told him exactly when and where he had built it. I still have the wagon and the memories. His house also had many photos of the old trains he ran and a few local train wrecks to boot. I always wondered if i took my truck down to a freight yard and left it would someone paint the darned thing lol.

that is cool.

those are highly sought after out here not free or cheap anymore all the tinkerers want em lol.

i think it is cool and has some real potential as a pattern a guy that now has some leather could perfect a bit.

i buy sides.

your lucky to have someone that actually uses and tests these things in real world settings, i have thrown out a few of those cartridge holder butt stock things in my day when i got back to camp with only half of my shells.

looks like your a darn lucky little shit to me lol.

interesting design for sure and nice looking . much better than the open style cartridge holders I've lost a lot rounds before i gave them up. i have seen and used similar belt types for rifle bullets but they use a pocket instead of individual holders.

yes you can but it also dries to hard and stiff imo use contact cement its the right choice. I used to use it to glue the thread ends also before I realized i really didn't need to.

yes there is a huge pine tree across the street that they have nested in for years and years. we look forward to their return every spring, I don't know if its the same pair or their kids but they come back every spring. Its so much fun watching them and the young Deer grow up. it rained last night and two young fawns just had a great time running around in it. The town i live in, Rawlins, was an end of tracks town built during the time union pacific rail was set across the US so trains are a part of life here. Gillette is about 300 miles north of me and btw where my wife grew up. I imagine they are mothballed because of the loss of coal mining in Gillette, its a shame the way our world is being destroyed but i wont go there today lol. it pisses me off. Here are some of my shots of one the last and largest steam engine (Big Boy) and another smaller in the us she came through a few years ago on her maiden voyage since being rebuilt and thousands of folks followed her stopping at each town along the trip. They are so cool!! the video isnt mine!

good idea!

interesting and cost effective how do you get the dimensions

they would have to be wrapped well for sure for casting, i wonder what the cost of 3d would be just in the plastic needed from what i have read its kind of costly also.

I didn't know if he understood the intricate type of forming needed for the type being made as he doesn't make holsters. Western , hunting, cc or IWb are all different characters and he may not be aware of the differences. yea when i make a custom holster i use the owners weapon or one of mine if i have the same one. I cant afford those prices either. But I don't make the type that needs that kind of forming most folks out here want hunting rigs not cc fighting rigs. Aluminum is a good choice for homemade copies, you can get lawn mower engines for free most times and sand casting is pretty easy. but then what does you time cost to find the aluminum clean and melt it then cast it up. plus buy or make the tools to do it.

he was back again today now i have to make perch so he can get a drink.

great looking set indeed.

They found a foot and sneaker in one of the hot pools in Yellowstone last year. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dead-man-whose-foot-was-found-yellowstone-hot-spring-identified-rcna57806

toxo blue guns are exact replicas of the gun so real guns don't have to be used. the wet forming process of the type holster he makes uses the forming as the friction that holds the weapon secure in the holster, its not for looks necessarily so the fit has to be exact. I think that's the part you aren't understanding of the question. The sewing also has to be tight and exact along the lines of the guns so the leather doesn't lose its form and fit as time goes on.

saw this youngun on the pool edge yesterday wondering how to get a drink. It is one of two chicks born this year and It just learned to fly. The second picture is from about 15 feet away.

really nice work. I'm not a fan of easy off holsters, not that it matters, when i carry I'm far to active but it sure looks nice.