One More

[doubleh]

Here is another holster I cobbled together awhile ago. More Herman's oak and Al Stholman patterns. It's a right hand crossdraw.

The gun is a Ruger Blackhawk in .357 mag. Heavy rascal but but not much recoil. I made the grips from some local mesquite. All we have are bushes but I can find them large enough to make grips and fore end and grip caps from. A crack will usually show up in about any piece. I guess it is from the beatings the bushs take from the high winds we get. You can see the crack in this one. It's the "j" shapes line right under the grip screw. Super glue does a good job on the cracks.

Edited March 2, 2010 by doubleh

[dustin29]

That is a nice looking holster. Job well done.

[BigRiverLeather]

Yeah, you cobbled that one together. I can't believe you even had the nerve to post that shoddy workmanship here. Kidding of course, looks good to me. Those grips are mighty hot as well! How does one go about making those to shape? Lots of sanding etc to get them to size? I would think it is really tough to get them to match exactly.

[doubleh]

Yeah, you cobbled that one together. I can't believe you even had the nerve to post that shoddy workmanship here. Kidding of course, looks good to me. Those grips are mighty hot as well! How does one go about making those to shape? Lots of sanding etc to get them to size? I would think it is really tough to get them to match exactly.

Making grips isn't as hard as it looks. There is a lot of sanding involved in the way I do it but almost all of it is done with a Dremel. It's pretty fast and easy but it get wood dust everywhere, mostly on me.