Some Recent Exotic Work

[JRCHolsters]

Here are a few exotic items that have gone out recently. Hope you like them.

Here is a sweet Hornback Alligator belt that went out to a customer.

It has a Millennium brown finish and the Horsehide backing is antiqued. It has a thin stiffener to keep the belt rigid, yet thin. A great gun belt that doesn't look like one. Hope you all like it.

Here are a couple I did for my son as a gift to go with his new M&PC 40

This is a Snap version of my belt slide. It is burgundy Horsehide with brown Alligator trim

This is a CP-1 in Burgundy Horse and Cognac Elephant trim.

And here are some AIWB-CDA holsters for customers with exotic trim

[Lobo]

Beautiful work.

[JRCHolsters]

Beautiful work.

Thanks! I appreciate it.

[benlilly1]

Very very nice items! Is Millennium brown a fiebings dye? It's a nice color.

[awharnessshop]

Great work! On the Gator belt, did you just glue it to the liner? No sewing? how thick is the liner?

-Andrew

[JRCHolsters]

Very very nice items! Is Millennium brown a fiebings dye? It's a nice color.

Thanks. It is actually a color that the supplier had. It is a chocolate brown with dark tan highlights.

[JRCHolsters]

Great work! On the Gator belt, did you just glue it to the liner? No sewing? how thick is the liner?

-Andrew

After playing around with test pieces, I realized that sewing wasn't a good option. The hard scales want to deflect the needle, giving a ragged sewing line. I scored the back of the liner (1/10") and shaved off loose hide from the back of the gator. I glued each side and allowed it to dry for a couple of hours. Once I carefully laid the pieces together, I pounded the length with a 3lb hammer and a pad. Then I pressed it in a home made press, using 2x4's lined with ensolite foam and furniture clamps. From there, it was all in the edging. The customer loves the belt and wears it everyday.

Edited February 29, 2012 by JRCHolsters

[KAYAK45]

What specifically did you use for your "thin stiffener"?

Love the work. VERY ELEGANT, yet functional as a gun belt.

Kevin

[awharnessshop]

the edging looks flawless! what did you use for glue? what did you use to edge it?

-Andrew

[JRCHolsters]

The stiffener was made from a strip of horsehide, about 3oz, trimmed from a thin edge. I used barge cement (the stinky stuff). When I edged it, I carefully saturated the edge with resolene and then took it to my wood dowel in the drill press. The belt was very labor intensive, even without the stitching.