Carved Loop Holster for SAA

[Josh Ashman]

This is assembled a little different than what I normally do but seems to have worked out pretty well. My customer wanted a carved loop holster for a Single Action Army with a Morgan dollar on the loop. He wanted it to sit fairly high on the belt and for it to fit a 1-1/2" belt. I decided to use stainless T nuts to put it all together. It's built out of doubled 7 oz HO. It got 1 fairly heavy coat of NF oil then was dyed with Fiebings liquid antique in medium brown before stitching. Top coat is Mop & Glo cut 50/50 with water. 

Thanks for looking.

Josh 

[usmc0341]

WOW!!! That is awesome!

[Josh Ashman]

Thanks Devil Dog!

[Red Bear Haraldsson]

I have a friend that paints miniatures for tabletop wargames. He is a phenomenal painter. He ranks his paint jobs on how much I cuss when he shows his latest work to me.

Josh, what you have there is a Yosemite Sam nuclear diatribe of foul language that I am hollering. I'm making sailors blush over here.

That is mighty fine work, just gorgeous. There isn't any part of that thing that I do not like. I'm already stealing design elements (the T-nuts forming the bottom of the belt loop). I think that would fix the problem in my head with my crossdraw design.

Really, just a phenomenal beauty of a holster. Well done, well done, indeed!

Edited September 7, 2016 by Red Bear Haraldsson
Wasn't finished

[Josh Ashman]

Thanks Red Bear, I'm glad you like it!

I was happy with the T nut idea. I'm not sure if I imagined it, or if I saw it somewhere else and conveniently "remembered" it. I will say that the holster was fit pretty tight which angled the T nuts "out" when I force stuffed the pistol in there. This in turn made it a little tough to get everything fit up and put together. I'd mocked it all up and wrapped the pistol in 2 ziploc freezer bags and let it sit overnight before putting on the top coat and doing the final assembly. It went together pretty easy the 2nd go around. I mention this in case you do use the idea you might want to set yourself up for easy success by punching the T nut holes in the skirt after the main holster is sewn up and "formed". If  I had done that I'd have saved myself a few cuss words when I put it together!

All the best, Josh

[plinkercases]

Very very nice, classy

[Red Bear Haraldsson]

Whoops, forgot to ask...

Anything other than friction holding your hammer strap? I see the holes, but none of the pictures show that side of the holster once it is all assembled.

[Josh Ashman]

Thanks Plinkercases!

Just friction Red Bear. Although the size of the thong and the size of the hole it's a pretty tight fit. To adjust the length through the holes takes a lot of effort. It's easy enough to hook and unhook the hammer as the oil tan thong has a little stretch to it. 

Here's a picture of that side.

[Dwight]

Awesome.............

May God bless,

Dwight

[plinkercases]

What is the finish by the way?