Members DHopper Posted December 7, 2012 Members Report Posted December 7, 2012 (edited) Had this crazy custom request come in and just finished it. Takes a special kind of guy to wear one of these and pull it off; and Doc is just that guy. Pretty big dude at 6' 5" & 260ish, and very wild eyed crazy; especially for a family doc. LoL. Anyway, he'd seen a picture of one of these type rigs a while back. He wanted to personalize it with his tattoo in the center panel. Came out ok I think. Edited December 7, 2012 by DHopper Quote Dave dhcustomwork.com
Members Abram Posted December 7, 2012 Members Report Posted December 7, 2012 (edited) That is awesome looking, how well does it wear? Edited December 7, 2012 by Abram Quote
Members Shooter McGavin Posted December 7, 2012 Members Report Posted December 7, 2012 Nice work! Quote Zlogonje Gunleathers
IngleGunLeather Posted December 7, 2012 Report Posted December 7, 2012 I think it's bad ass. Nice work on transferring the tattoo onto the leather. Not sure if you're looking for critiques or not, but your stitch line looks way off around the frame. Quote Ingle Gun leather
Members David8386 Posted December 8, 2012 Members Report Posted December 8, 2012 Looks good especially the tooling. David Quote
Members Matt Alsaker Posted December 8, 2012 Members Report Posted December 8, 2012 Very nice work. Quote http://www.alsakercustomleather.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AlsakerCustomLeather?ref=hl
Members DHopper Posted December 8, 2012 Author Members Report Posted December 8, 2012 Good morning all. Thank you for the feedback! I was actually surprised at how well this thing wears, even on my smaller frame. The rig is slightly contoured and fits really well around the small of your back. The sew lines are off a bit because I ended up not having the pistols sit as far down in as originally drawn up. I would drop the sides down about an inch next time I think. Funny thing was when one of my customers friends said that the holster image looked better than his tattoo. LoL. Quote Dave dhcustomwork.com
Members chiefjason Posted December 9, 2012 Members Report Posted December 9, 2012 If I had to guess, I bet they did not sit down as far as you wanted because the end of the holster is sewn shut. Unless you lined them and that's what the stitch line is. With blue guns I've had to beat them in with a hammer before to get them where I wanted them. Overall, it looks sweet. I think the holster is from a movie, just can't place the name. I've seen the style holster before. Probably the same pic he saw. Quote
Members Jason Chaney Posted December 9, 2012 Members Report Posted December 9, 2012 (edited) The movie was "Face Off" Jason. Nicolas Cage had a pair of gold Springfield 1911s he carried in a double SOB rig. Both guns were vertical though. There was no space between them. http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:FO-Gold1911s-1.jpg Actually it looks more like two holsters just pushed together, but still cool. Dave... Nice job! This looks great. I like the triangle between the guns. Better angle to draw I would think. And the carving looks pretty bad ass in there. Edited December 9, 2012 by Jason Chaney Quote
Members DarkSeid Posted December 10, 2012 Members Report Posted December 10, 2012 Looks fantastic! The "New York Reload" style of holster is one of my favourites, and you nailed it. What weight of leather did you use? Again, fantastic. Quote
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