Chiappa Rhino 60DS drop holster (stange situation)

[DoubleKCustomLeathercraft]

Well this build was interesting. I had a client meet up and request a "cowboy" style drop holster for a Chiappa Rhino 60DS. Ya the revolver with the barrel in the wrong location. 

So it started with a phone call. The client explained to me that he had gone into a custom leather shop in town to have the work done, but they don't do holsters. Ok, sounds normal right?

But...

He wasn't just looking for the holster, but for a compete western rig.

*Me in my head: Ya I make that too. But I didn't say anything about it. I just sent him a picture of one of my favorite rigs I've made. 

I decided to just roll with it.

Got him a quote ready and met up in town to pick up the handgun. I asked if he wanted any tooling or stamping and he said he preferred it to be plain. I then offered to double stitch to give it a more robust look and he was all in for that. 

*Me in my head: I'm still confused at why I'm making a holster for a belt that doesn't exist, from a shop that doesn't pick up the phone or return calls. 

A day later I tried to lock down a dye color with the client. He said leave it unfinished and I'll have the (other)  shop dye and match everything. I them informed him that it we went this route, the stitching will take on any dye they use. That it would be better to come up with a plan between all 3 of us (the shop, client and myself). He insisted an keeping it unfinished. So I rolled with it. 

*Me in my head still confused. 

At this point, I'm not making holster for the client anymore. I have no problems with client expectations. They're always happy with what I make. I'm making this holster for my competition knowing full well there will be seasoned eyes on every single stitch, snap setting, blemish etc... So I just roll with it. 

So now my work sits in a shop, one light coat of oil after wet forming, creme colored stitching and no finish to protect that clean natural leather from dirty or oily hands. It is what it is, just roll with it. 

All that matters is my client is very happy with how the holster came out. He'll send me some pics of the finished work when the other shop gets his belt done. 

Just roll with it lol

 

[DoubleKCustomLeathercraft]

Oh, wanted to add override of the gun for this who don't know what it looks like. 

[WalterF]

Nice and clean, like the stitching really adds to it.

[BlueOx]

That looks extremely clean. I'll be interested to see how it ends up after being in the other shops hands. 

 

Always thought the rhino was a neat gun anyways, not quite as interesting as the Mateba autorevolver it's based on but still interesting. 

[DoubleKCustomLeathercraft]

4 hours ago, BlueOx said:

That looks extremely clean. I'll be interested to see how it ends up after being in the other shops hand on it

I will definitely post some pics if I get them. That's up to my client to send me some, but he said it'll be no problem. 

 

I wore fresh rubber gloves during the recipe prices of making this so I didn't risk any dirty from my hands rubbing off. I heat with wood and live in the forest so dirt just like to appear out if nowhere haha. Double stitching always looks great on a holster, but I'm a hand stitch guy so I don't often offer to do so. It takes so long and I don't typically charge extra

Edited 12 hours ago by DoubleKCustomLeathercraft
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[Bert03241]

Thats Beautiful work

[dikman]

Very nice. You did a good job of keeping it clean considering all the handling it would have gone through. Given that you have no idea what the other shop is going to do I think I would have gone with dark brown/black stitching?

Certainly a strange situation, what sort of "custom" shop does Western-style gunbelts but not holsters?

[Hildebrand]

Very nice holster, as others said very clean.  Hopefully the other shop doesn't completely ruin the look.

Todd

[chuck123wapati]

yup that's some nice work!! Hope they don't jack it up.

[Thadrick]

I like it. Beautiful!