My First Avenger Holster

[mlapaglia]

Gum tragacanth takes care of rough back sides.

And if you always pick out your leather at a tandy store you should make sure that your backs look good. If you do not go into the store and get it mailed to you then id suggest getting some leather from Springfield Leather, call in the order and specifically tell them your making holster and need the backs nice, they will usually pick out out some good hides.

Thanks for the tip on Gum Tragacanth. I actually used it on this one. Between shaving it and using Gum Tragacanth on the inside it looks a lot better than it did. The problem was this was a $21.99 single sholder. They picked the best one they had for me that was actually an 8/9. The better parts made the first two holsters I did. Things are tight at the moment so I use what I have and what I can get cheap. Trust me as soon as the money gets straightened out Ill be getting some good leather and an airbrush.

[TwinOaks]

Since all the things about the leather have been covered, I'll offer a recommendation about the photography:

Don't display .38spl ammunition with a semi-auto (unless it's a S&W model 52, or a Coonan 1911); put the correct ammo in the picture. As a gun owner, I'm pretty sure you can see the reasons for this.

[mlapaglia]

Since all the things about the leather have been covered, I'll offer a recommendation about the photography:

Don't display .38spl ammunition with a semi-auto (unless it's a S&W model 52, or a Coonan 1911); put the correct ammo in the picture. As a gun owner, I'm pretty sure you can see the reasons for this.

Mike,

I had a short talk with my kid about that since he took the photos for me. It's actually .357 ammo from the speed loader of my Model 27 S&W and the clip is from his H&K USP 9 Airsoft. He was going for "art" and we had a talk about accuracy vs "art". Those pics will never be seen except here.

I wondered who would catch that. Thanks for the comment.

Michael