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That holster looks real familiar. I did a few but the patterns came from Simmons. 

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rivets back then could have been made by a blacksmith out of mild steel or bought they also had copper rivets. The one in the center looks like a copper rivet with a soft steel washer. On May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss secured a patent for his denim jeans with copper rivets so rivets were available for use.

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20 minutes ago, fredk said:

Too much work. Like us, back then the maker didn't want too much extra work. He would have used something handy and commonly available. I'm thinking a small calibre bullet shell, maybe a .22 or .177? Punched thru the leather the empty tube of the shell would have filled with the waste of the belt rather than removing it.

or just a round nail and a washer.

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I guess back then, what ever got the job done.

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26 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said:

or just a round nail and a washer.

not so, if you look at the rivet, it is hollow and the edge has cracked as it was crimped over - this can be seen more clearly in the photo in the book.

Also, hardware like this was being turned out by machines since the 1780s. No smith would bother with making anything so small as a rivet - its too fiddly, too time consuming

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How much of the rivet (hollow type) should be protrude through the leather pieces? Using a 5/16”  rivet leaves a little less rhan 2/16”  coming through to be peened over. I should probably use a 7/16” rivet, yes? BTW Sinpac, those are beautiful California holsters.

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Ideally you would want about 3mm or slightly more available to peen over - thats about 1/8 inch

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1 hour ago, Mungo said:

How much of the rivet (hollow type) should be protrude through the leather pieces? Using a 5/16”  rivet leaves a little less rhan 2/16”  coming through to be peened over. I should probably use a 7/16” rivet, yes? BTW Sinpac, those are beautiful California holsters.

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From the crimp side they look like eyelets. Just to confuse things I don't see any rivet heads between the loops.

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It looks like a rivet base between the loops  just to the left of the left-most bullet. I think. The photo in the book is slightly clearer than the posted photo.

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