Members Steve75 Posted July 8 Members Report Posted July 8 17 hours ago, Mulesaw said: @Steve75 I fully agree that we should continue to share knowledge and especially to someone who is new to the forum. Generally I think there is a very civilised and helpful tone in here which is just as it should be 🙂 It is just that I am genuinely puzzled: Did the OP expect another answer?, Should we have offered more help? Was the OP in reality looking for a turnkey operation business plan to make a fortune making holsters? I guess it is just that I always gets so astonished when people don't acknowledge that someone is trying to help them. A simple "thank you" would suffice. Just plain old fashioned regular courtesy. Brgds Jonas It is one of the great puzzlements. I think all who posted here did a great job of giving a place to start. It is what we do as good stewards of information. I have learned a great deal from those willing to share their knowledge on this forum. I will do what I can to pay it forward by providing any information I can. I do understand your astonishment. It is truly sad to see a person miss out on sharing in the wealth of knowledge available on this forum. Courtesy can be hard to find these days. Quote Steve "No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it." Theodore Roosevelt
Members Mulesaw Posted July 8 Members Report Posted July 8 19 hours ago, dikman said: Good luck on doing that! Perhaps we ought to make a post with "get rich quick" business ideas (just kidding) Quote
Northmount Posted July 8 Report Posted July 8 On 7/5/2025 at 10:14 AM, AlZilla said: You never know if the person is visiting w/o logging in. It always does seem like they should at least acknowledge the responses. But, that's the world we live in now, I guess. Get off my lawn, too. Maybe we should kick them off if they can't be bothered to check for a response. They certainly aren't contributing to the site! @Johanna Quote
AlZilla Posted July 8 Report Posted July 8 32 minutes ago, Northmount said: Maybe we should kick them off if they can't be bothered to check for a response. They certainly aren't contributing to the site! @Johanna I wrestled a little with this post yesterday and decided not to respond further. To me, giving (whether a brand new car or answering a question like the OP presented) is done without expectation of any return or even a thank you. So, I wouldn't boot someone for not checking back in. An acknowledgment and thank you would certainly encourage more dialog, but people seem to be pretty self focused these days. Maybe he forgot where he posted the question ... It was really kind of a fragment of a question anyway, not really enough info to give a coherent, specific answer. I think Chuck nailed it - pretty much any information a person needs is somewhere here. Quote “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire “Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” - Aristotle
AEBL Posted July 11 Report Posted July 11 (edited) Nobody said this already, so here goes: Want to make a small fortune selling holsters? ... Start out with a large fortune first. I've just made a terrible one for a friend, so, now I am going to re-make it ... Edited July 11 by AEBL Quote
Members Cumberland Highpower Posted July 11 Members Report Posted July 11 (edited) 8 hours ago, AEBL said: Nobody said this already, so here goes: Want to make a small fortune selling holsters? ... Start out with a large fortune first. I've just made a terrible one for a friend, so, now I am going to re-make it ... I'd have to agree with that! 25 years ago I didn't have a choice, and didn't see it that way. I made a living making holsters for over a decade, and looking back, was pretty good money. I started with $200 and a 90 day loan against my 10 year old VW Golf (bought a stitcher). I made ALLOT of holsters of all types, mainly on contract. I rarely make holsters now and keep looking for something that just requires pushing a big red button. CNC, etc! LOL. Edited July 11 by Cumberland Highpower Quote
AEBL Posted July 11 Report Posted July 11 I have friends that make holsters, and I don't want to turn people off of making them, but it is a lot more work than someone might think. Watching the pros on YouTube gives the uninitiated the impression that it is "cut some stuff, glue it together, stitch it, sell it" ... but there is a steep learning curve, and customers don't want to pay for your mistakes. I think a lot of us here got into the business because we wanted to save money on buying stuff, or nobody made what we wanted. I think I've heard stories like this here all over the forum: "Some guy was charging $$ for this thing I wanted. I thought I could make it cheaper/easier/better, so now, years into it, and $$$$ into it, I have a deeper respect for what that original person was doing and charging." Yet, I'm still happy I took the plunge and got into it, nice people here - and they're always glad to help! Quote
Members Cumberland Highpower Posted July 12 Members Report Posted July 12 (edited) 23 hours ago, AEBL said: I have friends that make holsters, and I don't want to turn people off of making them, but it is a lot more work than someone might think. Watching the pros on YouTube gives the uninitiated the impression that it is "cut some stuff, glue it together, stitch it, sell it" ... but there is a steep learning curve, and customers don't want to pay for your mistakes. I think a lot of us here got into the business because we wanted to save money on buying stuff, or nobody made what we wanted. I think I've heard stories like this here all over the forum: "Some guy was charging $$ for this thing I wanted. I thought I could make it cheaper/easier/better, so now, years into it, and $$$$ into it, I have a deeper respect for what that original person was doing and charging." Yet, I'm still happy I took the plunge and got into it, nice people here - and they're always glad to help! Most of those are pretty valid and on the money points. I got into leatherworking mainly as you said I felt like it was an easy money maker and I wanted a few things. There was a learning curve, but a holster isn't the RD-180. I'd say the learning curve for myself was about a week of full time experimenting and some fine tune skill honing over a year or so. I think the big mistake that newcomers make is that they want to make "Custom" holsters, one customer at a time. There's no money in that. Maybe pocket money, but it's allot of frustration and annoyance and it's almost impossible to read someone else's mind 100%. The customer ends up never being fully happy. There are some pretty successful custom makers out there, but they're a rarity and a good few of them live on some kind of backup income like SS, Army Pension/VA Disability, Oil Royalties, etc. My approach was to make a few lines of holsters that were inspired by big name makers or of my own design and look for retailers who would sell them under their name. If they sold they sold, if not, not. Cheap models always sold the best, about 10x better. Edited July 12 by Cumberland Highpower Quote
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