Carved Loop Holster for SAA

[neilyeag]

"It's built out of doubled 7 oz HO"   

Could you expand on this?  Does this mean you take two sections of leather and glue them together before fabricating?  

Neil 

[Josh Ashman]

Thanks again folks! I appreciate the positive feedback. I'll happily take negative feedback as well as that's how you get better.

Dwight, I'm right there with you. I often carry a single action around the farm, although it tends to be my old .357 Blackhawk as opposed to my Colt SAA clone. But anytime I use it for my actual carry gun I find myself wishing I had a 1911. 

Neilyeag, correct, it's 2 layers of 7 oz leather cemented back to back. I cut the "front" piece from a pattern and do any tooling to it first. Then I use it as pattern to "rough out" the shape of the liner. I'll cement both pieces and put them together then cut the liner, or back piece to match. Sometimes I'll cut the back piece before gluing them but it makes it pretty important that you get all the edges lined up when you stick them together. It's easier for me to glue then trim.

Have a great Friday and weekend folks!

Josh

[Craig44]

Beautiful work, very well done!

[Boriqua]

That is stunning!!

I want to make sure I read correctly .. you are applying the antique before you dunk? I used to do that with the Fiebings acrylic antique with fair results but then tried it with tandy antique and contributed an almost finished holster to the Arizona landfill.

[BHPshooter]

On ‎9‎/‎7‎/‎2016 at 11:35 AM, Red Bear Haraldsson said:

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.

Exactly right -- I'm struggling to find a family-friendly term to express my admiration.

I suppose I'll just have to say that it's breathtaking, and leave it at that.

[Red Cent]

What the heck is antstreak?

[Josh Ashman]

Craig & BHP, thank you!

Boriqua, thanks and you heard correct. I use the Fiebings antique, after it dries for a good long while, usually overnight at least I'll give that a good rubdown with Leather New (or a no-name equivalent). This pulls a lot of the excess stain off and helps minimize the amount it mitigates when it gets wet. It gets total submerged in water, but just in and out. Not held down and soaked by any means. It still runs and I have to be careful with it, but it usually work OK for me. This is all with the Fiebings liquid acrylic antique, I've never tried the Tandy stuff and hearing how it worked for you, I don't think I ever will!

All the best, Josh

[silverbullet]

AL MOST TO PRETTY TO USE. 

I'd be very proud to have made a holster like that. Verry very nice. Great job.