Mike Craw Posted October 9, 2018 Author Report Posted October 9, 2018 Thanks Plinker! So am I!!! Mike Quote My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. Harry S. Truman
Members Rednichols Posted November 14, 2022 Members Report Posted November 14, 2022 Wow. Not one single thing in this thread is correct about the way holster springs m/b made and inserted into the holsters. Even from someone like Lobo who was once upon a time a pro maker. These days I have to explain this to even the Lawman Leather people who 'make' the Original Dirty Harry Holster -- poorly -- by bending the spring metal inside their holsters but therebay unable to temper the metal after bending to hold its new shape (and thereby form a true spring). The springs of shoulder holsters are made by professional spring bending companies on wire bending machines, then inserted. For a Bianchi or a Lewis shoulder holster they were simply inserted from the muzzle end of the holster, then the muzzle leather stitched shut. Easy. For the Clark and Bucheimer-Clark (and the first Lawman Leather versions made for them by the latter company) the spring was inserted with great effort via this spot on the backside of the holster. But prebent professionally, and heat treated, first. Nowadays Lawman just bends the wire inside the holster and CALLS it a spring; but a spring by definition returns to its original shaping after it is deflected, but wire bent inside a holster is just a wire; not a spring. Perfectly suited to amateurs such as here, who feel no responsibility to consumers because theirs is a hobby; but completely unethical and even tortious for any operation that calls itself a professional holster company. Quote Holster designer/maker since 1958
CFM chuck123wapati Posted November 14, 2022 CFM Report Posted November 14, 2022 8 hours ago, Rednichols said: Perfectly suited to amateurs such as here, who feel no responsibility to consumers because theirs is a hobby; but completely unethical and even tortious for any operation that calls itself a professional holster company. no need for bashing folks my friend keep your opines about the folks on here to yourself it makes for a much nicer forum. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
CFM Frodo Posted November 14, 2022 CFM Report Posted November 14, 2022 19 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said: no need for bashing folks my friend keep your opines about the folks on here to yourself it makes for a much nicer forum. Quote Singer 66, Chi Chi Patcher, Rex 26-188, singer 29k62 , 2-needles D.C.F.M
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