Introduction And Leather Working Etiquette? ?

[bikermutt07]

Thank you. I think I'm gonna improve the phone taco with a few welts next time.

[TwinOaks]

It's generally recognized that there are only so many ways to wrap leather around things. Similarity in basic design, especially with something like an Avenger style holster is extremely difficult to avoid. Where you would run into trouble is if you start producing exact duplicates, including logo designs, or certain specific aesthetic design elements, and selling it. My default example of this is the Harley Davidson logo. If you make a tool roll and put a Harley-like shield on it for YOUR bike (for the sake of discussion) then you'd be okay.

If you start making tool rolls, stamp them with a HD logo, and sell them as HD branded merchandise, you would start getting letters from attorneys.

[Tramps Leatherworking]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery --- how many motorcycle manufacturers don't make a Harley clone/lookalike model?

[bikermutt07]

Thanks Twin Oaks, that sums it up perfectly for me.

[SteelcityK9Cop]

If you figure out who invented the pancake holster, let us all know so we can thank him!

Love the phone case!!

[camano ridge]

Roy Baker is generaly credited with designing the pancake holster about 40 years ago and patented it in the early 70's. Roy Baker is commonly called the Father of the Pancake Holster, also Roy Baker the Pancake Maker. Sadly he is no longer with us. I still have the Guns and Ammo magazine (1974) that has one of the first articles on Roy Baker and the Pancake hoslter. After I read that article. I ran out to tandy bought a chunk of leather and made my first holster. It literally looked like a pancake with a bite out of it. I still have that holster hanging on the wall in my shop. Almost every holster maker since the early 70's has made a pancake holster in one form or another. I see that as a tribute to Roy Baker.