"Servus" from Austria - Way up in the mountains

[BoRo]

Hi to all from the Salzburg Region.

I am no leatherworker at all, but would say that i am pretty handy with tooling. I recently bought myself an UMAREX BB CO2 Colt (I love John Wayne) and was desperatly searching for a Holster... Thx to Google I found this forum and I have seen quite a lot beautiful pieces of craftmanship :-)

I read since about 1 month, watched tons of Videos, downloaded quite a lot of PDF and Workshops and came to the conclusion that I wanted to start a new hobby ...  :-)

But I still have a few Questions and maybe someone can help me:

1) Veg tan Leather, 8-9 ounces for a holster ... but from which part of the "cow" (neck, shoulder..) shall I take?

2) If making a non lined holster - with what shall I smoothen the "inside" of the leather?

3) Most Important: Where can I order Leather, dye, needles and tools here in austria or Germany, since the shipping costs from US are way too high?

To be honest - I don't really want to spend a fortune in material before no knowing, if this is something I really like to do ... so a "beginner" set would be fine ...

Thx to the mods and the useres for this great forum :-)

cheers

 

[gigi]

Hello and welcome to the LW Forum!

A few suppliers in Germany: 

http://kappey.de/     http://www.die-ledermacher.de/    https://www.rickert-werkzeug.de     http://www.lederhaus.de/

also Bear gallery by René Berends (BTW: if I were in Austria I would attend one of René's workshops if still available)

[BoRo]

Thx!!

 

here is another one... I love his tools ... bought some Garden Scissors for my wife... and a knife. Just remembered him. Beautiful Tools

Dictum tools