Tutorial Video - Avenger Style Holster Pattern

[particle]

Hello all - I just posted another video to my website showing how I make an avenger style holster pattern. I'm making it free to Leatherworker.net for a limited time. If you like the video, I'd appreciate it if you'd spread the word, though I'd like to keep the "Free" access to just the Leatherworker.net community please... As always, if you see something in the video you don't agree with, please let me know and I'll do what I can to correct anything that needs correct'n.

http://www.adamsleat.../how-s-it-made/

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Edited October 12, 2011 by particle

[Nooj]

Great tutorial, thanks so much for sharing! I began watching your first 3 videos before I made any holsters and they were a tremendous help to see how the whole process goes. You have a knack for making it look simple and easy- and that helps new guys like me feel more confident in what I'm doing when I make a pattern/holster.

Thanks again for putting in the time to make the vid and share with us :-)

Nooj

[particle]

Thanks for the kind words Nooj - I appreciate it, and am glad you found the videos helpful!

[Sanch]

tremendous work I love looking at the gallery on your wesite simply put clean beautiful work. Thank you for sharing the video my last holster for a taurus was similar in construction and so was the pattern.. except I use tracing paper and graphite paper to get my re enforcement part of the pattern also a stylus once again thank you!!! stealf..

[wizard of tragacanth]

Thanks very much for the video. I plan to make an Avenger fairly soon.

Nick

[Eaglestroker]

Got to thank you Adam. I have been hitting a brick wall lately with a few issues and it never occurred to me that the machine itself had enough tension I didn't need to groove for it. Just save me after a lot of heart ache!

[K-Man]

Unless I missed it, you forgot to mark where your stitching goes on the overlay piece itself (especially around the area that the belt will slide through). Or are you using the main body piece and placing that over the piece and marking the stitch lines the same as your glue lines? Might be a little bit easier to mark the stitch lines on the overlay piece itself IMO.

Edited October 13, 2011 by K-Man

[particle]

Good catch - thanks for pointing that out!! If you notice in the video, I hesitated a few times at random points - I was trying to think ahead and think of the best way to communicate things (but didn't want to edit the pauses out of the video if at all possible), which marks to transfer, etc. - I placed the overlay on top and was about to mark those two points but talked myself out of it. In my mind, I was thinking "I don't need to mark that any more, because I now bevel the entire front and back of the reinforcement (except for the top edge at the opening)" - I forgot to tell myself "hey dummy, you still need to mark it because that's your stitch start/stop points". I would have caught that the first time I actually made a holster from the pattern.

Now that I know I need to add that to the video, what I may do is go back and record myself adding those dots, then make a holster from the pattern and show the resulting holster on video and make any adjustments to the pattern on video. Probably a good idea to do that anyway on future videos.

Thanks again for pointing that out, and glad others are finding it helpful.

[mlapaglia]

Great stuff. Things for the chance to see it. I'm still learning and it helped a lot.

Michael

[particle]

Great stuff. Things for the chance to see it. I'm still learning and it helped a lot.

Michael

Thanks! FYI - because of the way I have the videos are setup with a 24 hour rental policy, the username automatically stopped working after 24 hours. If someone tried to view it within the last couple/few hours and it didn't show up for you, it should work now.