Fubar,,,,,, Help!

[undie]

I put together a holster for a Springfield Armory handgun and had just finished sewing it all up. It has been carved, initialed, dated, and logo put onand then i noticed i didnt sew around the stiffener band on the top edge of the front panel. I am down to junking three days work or figuring out how to get it apart. It is glued with contact cement and sewed. any advice is welcome and you can even call me "Dumb A## for missing it. i guess your not supposed to work on three at the same time.. Thanks Richard U.

[Dwight]

That would be one of the few places where I would break my # 1 rule: hands are for hamburgers, . . . machines are for stitching.

Groove it, . . . mark it, . . . awl the holes, . . . and saddle stitch it. It will take a couple of curved & short needles at the start and the end, . . . but it is not out of the realm of possibility, . . . and the only other choice is to take a razor knife and cut the stitches under the barrel and trigger guard, . . . re=cement it, . . . and stitch it again. Get on your good glasses, . . . sharpen that razor knife until you can split the hairs on a spider's head with it, . . . and very carefully cut down between two of the layers. Assuming you put in a gusset piece in the bottom of the holster, . . . it should work out fairly easily.

I have done the second option, . . . if you do it, . . . as you are putting it back together, . . . use two needles, one at each end, . . . to line up your holes, . . . otherwise you will be punching new holes in the back and will weaken that side of the holster with all the extra holes.

More than one holster has left a shop here and there after having been done, . . . dissected, . . . and re-done.

May God bless,

Dwight

Don't pitch it, . . . it's too easy to fix THAT mistake.

[BondoBobCustomSaddles]

I would just cut the stitches, like I would for a re-skirting job on a saddle, then cut the layers apart where glued with a thin bladed knife. If you are careful you can get it apart without ruining all your work. Then reassemble it including the step you have left out. It's a little work, but; you will have it done right, and that's what counts. Bob

[undie]

Thanks everyone, I just made a new one and eliminated a couple areas i didn't like on the other one. The new one looks good and i may save the other until a day i dont have anything going and cut it apart,

[MadMorbius]

I can't tell you how many times I've done that. Well, something like that anyway...like assembling the whole mess before realizing I hadn't stitched the lining to the main holster leather, just glued it

I have a box full of...um...."positive learning experiences" I suppose you could call 'em.