Holster Leather VS Tooling Leather?

[particle]

When I spoke with my sales rep at W&C years ago, I asked about "holstered" leather, and if memory serves, she said it's an additional step to pre-compress the leather to make it more dense. I think the previous version of their website mentioned something about it as an upgrade service, but I don't see it listed on the current site. That being said - if "Holster" is listed as a common use, and not an upgrade service, I wouldn't expect any special treatment to have been applied to the leather.

Edited November 15, 2021 by particle

[Samalan]

On 11/12/2021 at 12:22 PM, Davm said:

The belt loop- really nice- does it slide around so you can adjust it?

sorry did not see this had some problems last week and was away yes it does but not to many places to go thanks for asking.

[JLSleather]

Hermann Oak has stated more than once that "holster leather" and "tooling leather" are the same leather.  They have never provided any reasonable explanation for why they call it different things, other than they want holster makers (and potential holster makers) to be able to search "holster leather" and get linked TO THEM (and then there are of course the multitude of "holster makers" who rant that there's is obviously "better", since they use only "holster leather"  )

What W/C refers to as "holstered" is a compression process that you'd have to see.  They've always done this for us free of charge, though they do advise that the extra step may delay your order slightly.  We ALWAYS have this step done, with the exception of when I order LEATHER FOR TOOLING (call it "tooling leather" if you want, though W/C calls it "skirting") which is the exception, since we use almost exclusively H.O. for tooling.

 

Edited November 17, 2021 by JLSleather

[Cumberland Highpower]

On 11/17/2021 at 1:18 PM, JLSleather said:

Hermann Oak has stated more than once that "holster leather" and "tooling leather" are the same leather.  They have never provided any reasonable explanation for why they call it different things, other than they want holster makers (and potential holster makers) to be able to search "holster leather" and get linked TO THEM (and then there are of course the multitude of "holster makers" who rant that there's is obviously "better", since they use only "holster leather"  )

What W/C refers to as "holstered" is a compression process that you'd have to see.  They've always done this for us free of charge, though they do advise that the extra step may delay your order slightly.  We ALWAYS have this step done, with the exception of when I order LEATHER FOR TOOLING (call it "tooling leather" if you want, though W/C calls it "skirting") which is the exception, since we use almost exclusively H.O. for tooling.

 

That's somewhat different than what a HO employee told me once when I inquired.  I was told the leather they sell as "holster" leather is tooling leather that has slightly less oil added.   Otherwise identical.     I use allot of HO leather here and have bought both for several years.   I do find the "holster" leather to be a bit  on the harder side in tooling and sewing, likely as they said, from less oil added after tanning.   I am being very critical in comparison, It's not significantly different, but I can feel a little difference, I am surprised you don't?

Edited November 24, 2021 by Cumberland Highpower