Members katsass Posted March 5, 2012 Members Report Posted March 5, 2012 From the grumpy old guy; I have not 'shared' any of my patterns. This is mainly because I can't find them because they don't exist anymore.When done with a holster, I chuck the pattern, too damned many to try to keep and catalog. I do only custom work --- no 'standard' patterns. I draw a new pattern for each holster, even if it is for a shooter similar to one done many times previously.. My customers come to me for a holster with characteristics which they cannot find on the open (commercial) market. They want the thing to fit THEIR specific needs and/or desires. I take a trace of each firearm at the start of things and go from there. I have used one other person's basic pattern (one time) with his express permission, and with the delivery of the finished product went a full disclosure that the pattern was not mine and gave full credit to the originator. I have also used photos of older holsters from "Packing Iron" as the basis for a holster or rig, but I still have to draw the pattern. Of course, not many folks would need to produce a holster in any quantity like this. Mike Quote NOTE TO SELF: Never try to hold a cat and an operating Dust buster at the same time!! At my age I find that I can live without sex..........but not without my glasses. Being old has an advantage.......nobody expects me to do anything in a hurry.
Members tergus fabrica Posted March 9, 2012 Members Report Posted March 9, 2012 any aspiring leatherworker, young or old, should be encouraged to continue his traverse into leather craft! everyone on this site has copied someone else's work at one time or another. if you do not wish to help with a pattern, so be it. but do not beat down these people for thinking so highly of you to ask you for your pattern. i seriously doubt any of these people live near enough to put a dent into your "business" of selling your leather goods! everyone needs to get along. encourage more people to continue this craft, it is a dying art. Quote
dirtclod Posted March 9, 2012 Report Posted March 9, 2012 Well it is your choice if you want to give your patterns away. Some of mine i don't mind others i'm not going to give away. As far as that person living close to you anybody that has a computer might as well be setting next to you in your shop trying to sell what they have made with your pattern. They have the same chance to sell it as you do on the internet. The word is your market now and theirs to. Quote I'm old enough to know that i don't know everything.
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