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[Garange]

Hello Everyone,

I'm fairly new on the forum and have been asking and using the advice from other members on gunleather and sewing. I've been selling my holsters on eBay for a couple of years now and thought I'd post a couple of photos to see what others think about them. Holsters are a hobby at this time but hope to expand later on down the line when I don't have to work full time for someone else. After a lot of research and advice from forum members I purchased a Cobra Class 4 stitching machine a few months back which made life much easier. I'm a one man operation that has found something in the last couple of years that I just absolutely love to do. Let me know what you guys think. All and any advice or comments are welcome.

Thanks..

Gary (Betz Gunleather)

[builderofstuff]

Great work!

Chris

[particle]

Agreed - very nice! Very smooth and clean looking.

On a side note, have you gotten much interest in holsters for the Kahr?

[Garange]

Agreed - very nice! Very smooth and clean looking.

On a side note, have you gotten much interest in holsters for the Kahr?

Thanks for the comment. I actually made the holster for the Kahr for myself because I had just recently purchased one. But as with most I end up wanting to do something different or better so I decided to sell it and am in the process of building another. This will be the first holster I've made for a Kahr and wanted to see if people would be interested. I really like the Kahr models as a CCW and thought others might as well. Most all my other holsters have been for the Glock models because of the dummy guns I have on hand.

[Garange]

Great work!

Chris

Thank you.

[rd1]

Nice design and your leatherwork and sewing is very good.

RD

[particle]

I really like the Kahr models as a CCW and thought others might as well. Most all my other holsters have been for the Glock models because of the dummy guns I have on hand.

Agreed - I carry a Kahr P9 daily and figured there were lots of others out there with that gun. In the year + that I've been making / selling holsters, I don't think I've gotten a single order for a Kahr holster. Several people interested in the K9, but not the P9 that I own. I don't hang out on any Kahr forums or anything like that, so that might have something to do with it -lack of marketing. Thinking about selling the P9 to fund an EMP 9mm, or something along that line. Best of luck to you - your holsters look great!

[Garange]

Agreed - I carry a Kahr P9 daily and figured there were lots of others out there with that gun. In the year + that I've been making / selling holsters, I don't think I've gotten a single order for a Kahr holster. Several people interested in the K9, but not the P9 that I own. I don't hang out on any Kahr forums or anything like that, so that might have something to do with it -lack of marketing. Thinking about selling the P9 to fund an EMP 9mm, or something along that line. Best of luck to you - your holsters look great!

Well I guess if others aren't interested in the Kahr line of holsters I'll stay away from making them. The EMP 9mm is sure a nice looking gun! Checking out your website you build some really nice holsters! With that being said I really appreciate the feedback on my holsters from a man that does the work you do. I hope to some day create and form my own website. It's really hard to compete with the cheaper priced (and made) holsters that are available on eBay.

Gary

[particle]

Don't mean to discourage you away from making them for the Kahr. They're a great little gun. I love mine - I've just never hung around much on forums that focus on Kahrs. Not sure my website even has anything notable that Google would pick up related to Kahr, except for maybe one mention of Kahr in my list of available dummy guns. I get more orders than I can handle right now for 1911's - if I started "advertising" on other boards, my queue would probably grow much longer than I'd really like to see.

I sold a few early holsters on Ebay. I quickly found that I could much more easily sell the holsters on my website using a PayPal buy-now button with a quantity of 1 for the inventory setting. As soon as the holster sells, I log into my website and delete the modules containing the item listing and the paypal html button code. Build a website using something simple like Concrete5, or pay someone else to do it if you don't have time to mess with it (but Concrete5 is super simple to learn). Put a link to your site in your signature. Frequently post on several forums like this one, the Kahr boards (or whatever gun manufacturer-focused boards you want to specialize in), and see if Oklahoma has a concealed-carry message board - a lot of people prefer to shop locally to support the local guys. And of course, there are the major/national concealed carry boards too. Even if your site is only getting 30-60 unique viewers a month, you may find that's more than enough to keep you busy building and selling holsters than you ever imagined. Some people even use a simple blog like Blogspot. It's been a while since I used blogspot, but I think you can actually type up an email with your blog's email address in the "To" box and once you click "Send", it automatically adds a new post to your blog. Here's a great example from one of the members on this forum.

http://monicakuehnle...r.blogspot.com/

Don't worry about competing with the holsters on Ebay. Your work is great - you shouldn't have any problem making and selling holsters from your own website at a price that will make it worth your time. I don't know what the're selling for right now, but put them on your (future) site and price them at $70 - "In Stock" - people will jump all over them if they don't have to wait 6+ weeks for one to be built.

And thanks for the compliment on my holsters!

Eric

Edited December 29, 2010 by particle

[rmhovis]

Very nice!

[Garange]

Don't mean to discourage you away from making them for the Kahr. They're a great little gun. I love mine - I've just never hung around much on forums that focus on Kahrs. Not sure my website even has anything notable that Google would pick up related to Kahr, except for maybe one mention of Kahr in my list of available dummy guns. I get more orders than I can handle right now for 1911's - if I started "advertising" on other boards, my queue would probably grow much longer than I'd really like to see.

I sold a few early holsters on Ebay. I quickly found that I could much more easily sell the holsters on my website using a PayPal buy-now button with a quantity of 1 for the inventory setting. As soon as the holster sells, I log into my website and delete the modules containing the item listing and the paypal html button code. Build a website using something simple like Concrete5, or pay someone else to do it if you don't have time to mess with it (but Concrete5 is super simple to learn). Put a link to your site in your signature. Frequently post on several forums like this one, the Kahr boards (or whatever gun manufacturer-focused boards you want to specialize in), and see if Oklahoma has a concealed-carry message board - a lot of people prefer to shop locally to support the local guys. And of course, there are the major/national concealed carry boards too. Even if your site is only getting 30-60 unique viewers a month, you may find that's more than enough to keep you busy building and selling holsters than you ever imagined. Some people even use a simple blog like Blogspot. It's been a while since I used blogspot, but I think you can actually type up an email with your blog's email address in the "To" box and once you click "Send", it automatically adds a new post to your blog. Here's a great example from one of the members on this forum.

http://monicakuehnle...r.blogspot.com/

Don't worry about competing with the holsters on Ebay. Your work is great - you shouldn't have any problem making and selling holsters from your own website at a price that will make it worth your time. I don't know what the're selling for right now, but put them on your (future) site and price them at $70 - "In Stock" - people will jump all over them if they don't have to wait 6+ weeks for one to be built.

And thanks for the compliment on my holsters!

Eric

Thanks for the advice Eric,

I'm taking in all in and will be moving forward with it..

Gary

Very nice!

Thanks..

[Garange]

Don't mean to discourage you away from making them for the Kahr. They're a great little gun. I love mine - I've just never hung around much on forums that focus on Kahrs. Not sure my website even has anything notable that Google would pick up related to Kahr, except for maybe one mention of Kahr in my list of available dummy guns. I get more orders than I can handle right now for 1911's - if I started "advertising" on other boards, my queue would probably grow much longer than I'd really like to see.

I sold a few early holsters on Ebay. I quickly found that I could much more easily sell the holsters on my website using a PayPal buy-now button with a quantity of 1 for the inventory setting. As soon as the holster sells, I log into my website and delete the modules containing the item listing and the paypal html button code. Build a website using something simple like Concrete5, or pay someone else to do it if you don't have time to mess with it (but Concrete5 is super simple to learn). Put a link to your site in your signature. Frequently post on several forums like this one, the Kahr boards (or whatever gun manufacturer-focused boards you want to specialize in), and see if Oklahoma has a concealed-carry message board - a lot of people prefer to shop locally to support the local guys. And of course, there are the major/national concealed carry boards too. Even if your site is only getting 30-60 unique viewers a month, you may find that's more than enough to keep you busy building and selling holsters than you ever imagined. Some people even use a simple blog like Blogspot. It's been a while since I used blogspot, but I think you can actually type up an email with your blog's email address in the "To" box and once you click "Send", it automatically adds a new post to your blog. Here's a great example from one of the members on this forum.

http://monicakuehnle...r.blogspot.com/

Don't worry about competing with the holsters on Ebay. Your work is great - you shouldn't have any problem making and selling holsters from your own website at a price that will make it worth your time. I don't know what the're selling for right now, but put them on your (future) site and price them at $70 - "In Stock" - people will jump all over them if they don't have to wait 6+ weeks for one to be built.

And thanks for the compliment on my holsters!

Eric

Eric,

On a different note I would like to ask your opinion on something. I've been wanting to get into the 1911 models with holsters. Can you give me any advice on what style or size of dummy gun to start with? I know that there is so many models, sizes, and styles and some that even work with each other but I'm not familar with any. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks..

Gary

[Leatherbaron]

I make quite a few holsters mainly for cowboy rigs here in Australia

and I can tell you that you Holsters look great , very neat

one of the things I try to do is to make my leatherwork look neat.

regards Leatherbaron