1st Attempt at a Cowboy Single Action Holster & Rig

[noobleather]

G'day All

 I have finally made some progress with my first cowboy single action rig. I will share my mistakes and things I have learnt along the way.

Hopefully this may help others wishing to do a similar project.

I started off buying a Whill Ghormley "Hand of God" pattern and I also purchased Chris "Slickbald" Andres patterns for gun belts and holsters.

I unpacked the Whill G pattern first and started cutting up leather, only to realize its a single holster belt only pattern. Not to worry I just cut up another template in reverse.

I then proceeded to stamp the holster rather than carve it (I know I have a stamping habit) I made some errors in the line work and stamping so I decided to  make it black to hide the mistakes.

Then I realized it is not a lined design,so I cut out some thinner leather to glue to it.However by adding another layer of leather it would mean having to widen the template due to internal space lost due to the extra volume of leather. Don't really like the rough finish on the inside to be honest however I will treat it as a prototype.

Hand stitching has been a pain,especially on the welt up under the trigger guard where there is 4 layers of leather and due to the fact I am not very fast or good at stitching. Anyway here are the progress pics.

 

 

[garypl]

Looks really nice!  Did you put a toe plug in it?

Looking forward to seeing the finished rig.

Gary

[noobleather]

37 minutes ago, garypl said:

 Did you put a toe plug in it?

Gary

Not yet but I will glue and stitch one in.

[Rockoboy]

Nothing wrong with your stitching mate. The stamping looks fine from where I am sitting. A blind man in a wheelchair would walk a long way to see it!

[noobleather]

13 hours ago, Rockoboy said:

Nothing wrong with your stitching mate. The stamping looks fine from where I am sitting. A blind man in a wheelchair would walk a long way to see it!

Thanks Rockoboy

Stitching took me about 3hours lol and I haven't even started the toe plug yet.

More pics to come

[dikman]

For a first attempt that looks very good to me (my first attempt was plain, no decoration at all!).

You done good!

[noobleather]

49 minutes ago, dikman said:

For a first attempt that looks very good to me (my first attempt was plain, no decoration at all!).

You done good!

Thanks Dickman,some more pics this weekend

[Sturme]

that is a really nice cowboy rig. stitching and stamping looks great.

[noobleather]

6 hours ago, Sturme said:

that is a really nice cowboy rig. stitching and stamping looks great.

Thanks for the kind words

[JLSleather]

That looks purdy good.  When I first saw it, I wondered why a fella was sewing up the seam before sewing across the top the bucket or the loop - makes fer some tough sewin' when it's already closed (though it can be done). Looks like a good fit too.