JLSleather Report post Posted March 29, 2019 Getting [almost] out of holsters. Not out of leather, but out of MOST models of holster. Meeting WAY to many "gun" people. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it. PLUS, the quality of drum-dyed leather is through the FLOOR, and I just don't need the headache. So I'll be selling some blue guns shortly.. the ones I don't currently have orders for. Still be doing some leather, though. HEY, maybe I'll give CLASSES. I'm WAY prettier than anybody currently doing that! Need a specific model? Check at https://www.jlsleather.com/gun-models-holster-availability/ to see if I have it, then write me at jeff@jlsleather.com to see if it's available (if it's on the list, it's probably available). Keeping the 1911s and a few others, but most will go. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SLP Report post Posted March 30, 2019 My heart just broke a little bit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dwight Report post Posted March 30, 2019 Sorry in one way to see you go, . . . have enjoyed your holster comments down thru the years, . . . But, . . . glad for you in another way. I've done that type of move several times in my "career" and most turned out to be good moves, . . . Wish you the best, . . . stay in touch, . . . May God bless, Dwight Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrisash Report post Posted March 30, 2019 When i was in retail, i found that any specialist items you sold, the people took up large amounts of your time which was more expensive than the profit made on the item, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted March 30, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, chrisash said: i found that any specialist items you sold, the people took up large amounts of your time Well, yah - 'custom' does tend to take longer. Sometimes just to help them decide I don't mind that, though. But the leather has been hit or miss for a while, and it's just getting worse. My buddy Robert got me doing holsters again - after a long break where i did leather but not holsters. That guy made it fun again. But, Robert passed away a while back, and the leather quality is nowhere near what it used to be, and it's simply taking the fun out of it. TWO reasons to do something... it's necessary, or it's fun. Ideally, what is necessary should also be fun. But holsters have become not really EITHER of those things. I dont NEED to do it, so take the fun out of it is really the straw that broke the camel. Not to say I won't still do one here n there. I got folks who always contact me when they buy new toys. But this will let me do EVEN MORE belts ... Might even catch me on poo-tube showing sumthin now 'n' then. And between a couple the boys on here, maybe git ya some mag molds ya didn't have before and some patterns ya aint used yet! Edited March 30, 2019 by JLSleather Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
uscglechief Report post Posted March 31, 2019 Sorry to read this, I’ve always enjoyed your work/advice jess Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blue duck Report post Posted March 31, 2019 Best of luck with the next part of the adventure. When it ceases being enjoyable and you have other options---Go For It! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bermudahwin Report post Posted March 31, 2019 14 hours ago, JLSleather said: Might even catch me on poo-tube showing Now that will be a sight... Pleased the leatherwork's continuing, though, and I trust there will be JLS contributions to the forum to make me grin, in the future. There is life without holsters... live in the UK, no-one has ever asked me to make one. Leg of mutton shotgun sleeves, yes, holsters no. Have fun. H Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted March 31, 2019 6 hours ago, hwinbermuda said: leased the leatherwork's continuing, though, and I trust there will be JLS contributions to the forum to make me grin, There ya go. Gotta git the work done, but it should be FUN. Look behind that "serious all the time" guy, you likely find somebody tryin'a sell ya sumthin' 10 hours ago, uscglechief said: Sorry to read this, I’ve always enjoyed your work/advice 'Preciatecha! I'm likely to be MORE fun without all that designin' ta do 10 hours ago, blue duck said: When it ceases being enjoyable and you have other options---Go For It! Genetics maybe? I remember 100 years ago or so, my Dad - hard workin' honest fella - got promoted. A lot. After a while, he was #3 on the pole at USS (which was big back when). Hired a couple of his old buddies to work in the mechanic shop on the company vehicles - because he knew them and knew they could do the job. Big on RESULTS, not personalities. They got him an office with a typewriter, but he doesn't type. They didn't like him to walk to work, he should drive that company vehicle. No, we can't have "management" down there in the shop building helping the mechanics (Dad had the nerve to hold a part while the guy put the bolts in it). Dad said I DO put my hand right there for a minute if it helps the guy do the job I hired him for. I don't type, so put that typewriter on the secretary's desk - I don't need it. I walk 5-6 blocks on a sunny summer day. If I'm the boss, like you say, then I can do what I want. So Dad said that cabinet place up the road been trying to hire him for a few years. Everybody said (with SHOCK) you don't wanna quit... few years you got a PENSION. Dad said he don't wanna spend the next 5 years doing something he don't like Not a different world, just a different man. Many - even then - would plod through for another half a decade ... tolerating their job ... so they didn't have to learn anything new or actually DO anything. Dad could have "rode it out" like so many. Wait on the pension.... gotta get the free stuff (as opposed to actually earning). Around here -- a lot of em spent 20+ years (some 30+) at Deere learning how to show up and put THAT bolt in THAT hole. And outside of that, really don't know anything. Had a couple DECADES of a babysitter... you show up at the daycare, you get fed (a check) and somebody tells you when you can potty. And now you call yourself a retired "man". Yikes. Wench bought the house, step 1 was tearing out the concrete kitchen counter tops the "engineer" at Deere had "engineered". Idiot. But, to the FUN stuff. The rivers haven't gone back in their banks, but they stopped rising, so this is good. Purchasing additional walleye rod this afternoon ... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blue duck Report post Posted March 31, 2019 Walleye Rod. Good idea. How about make some time and build one? You could use a hobby. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted March 31, 2019 2 hours ago, blue duck said: Walleye Rod. Good idea. How about make some time and build one? You could use a hobby. I was thinkin' 'bout more time ta USE one Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
