What is it? Buscadero holster or not?

[Northmount]

12 minutes ago, fredk said:

A change in the title would be good

Done

[Dave Richardson]

41 minutes ago, Northmount said:

Each to their own, but if we keep stuff under the correct forums, it is much easier to find and to keep up with content that we are interested in.  Else you may as well pile everything into one area like I see a lot of peoples' desks.  Guess that is the way their mind works. 

I won't be moving this thread.

I think you made my point. My post was to ask the question what makes a buscadero a buscadero . Building a CURVED belt , patterns, "how to " should have been a new thread in the how do i do it section. None of the post of instructions or templets adresses the question of my original post. Dwight answered my question, I responded by thanking him

"to keep stuff under the correct forum " Mr. Riley should have started a new thread in how do I do that to make a CRUVED belt.

[JamesRiley]

You, Dave Richardson, asked Dwight "You would never make one like what?" and we were off to the races.

[Northmount]

16 hours ago, Dave Richardson said:

I think you made my point. My post was to ask the question what makes a buscadero a buscadero . Building a CURVED belt , patterns, "how to " should have been a new thread in the how do i do it section. None of the post of instructions or templets adresses the question of my original post. Dwight answered my question, I responded by thanking him

"to keep stuff under the correct forum " Mr. Riley should have started a new thread in how do I do that to make a CRUVED belt.

Don't understand why you would want to argue with a moderator that has some responsibility for where posts should be!  But, to each his own!  Seems quite disingenuous to me.

[Josh Ashman]

Hey guys, I'll chime in on the secondary topic of curved belts and how to make them. I think the "what makes it a buscadero" has been pretty well answered with the drop slot for holster attachment. 

I agree with Dwight that a curved cartridge belt is preferable to a straight one. However, I don't bother to cut my belt blanks on a curve because I think the hides yield better and are easier to cut straight with a strap cutter and it's easy enough to make them curve after you cut them. 

This isn't a buscarero but it works the same if it were. Leather is 10/11 HO cut @ 2-3/4" wide. (which is what I do for a tooled cartridge belt, if they aren't tooled I'll go with 2-1/2" wide).

Here is the straight cut blank before I started the 2nd session of tooling. After I took this picture I ran it through my bucket of water and let it sit and "case" for approximately 1 cup of coffee;

And here it is with some more tooling and formed into a curve. Simple as holding the leather flat on your work surface and forcing the ends up into the curve;

Here's the finished belt, still in curve. Not a ton of curve, but enough as far as I'm concerned;

And just for fun the finished rig complete;

As always, there's more than 1 way to do something. 

All the best, Josh

[JLSleather]

Yeah - "buscadero" incorporates a slot for the insertion of the holster.  Acts to drop the holster (and thus the pistol) lower, which may allow for an easier draw.   That is the reason I prefer the angled wear, curved belt - long legs, short torso makes lower = better for me.  But I don't believe that one "stays up" better than the other.  My straight cut belt in my jeans holds up itself AND the pants.  Since I no longer own this type of gun, not a huge deal for me other than the way I explain it to others.  Incidentally, been a while since I made one of these.  Seen a long line of folks these days seeing $150 stuff on Amazon and wanting me to make it for that (uh, thank you no).

Josh covered the issue of curved / straight (nice belt, BTW).  I've always cut them curved, but that's more because of the way I learned than actual necessity.  

If that's a "secondary" issue, then let me hit the tertiary ...

"No butt" is almost always the direct result of sedentary life style.  Really it's just another name for muscle loss - "atrophy" for the fancy smancy folk (and at the risk of having the thread moved to like a 'fitness' section er sumthin, it's the same thing responsible for the swelling of the belly region).  SImply put, less activity results in muscle loss, and muscle loss results in less calories burned.  End result:  flat butt, not so flat belly.  Dad was one exception - that guy had NO butt his entire life.

 

 

[Josh Ashman]

53 minutes ago, JLSleather said:

 My straight cut belt in my jeans holds up itself AND the pants. 

100% agree with that Jeff and will add that no straight cut pants (or carry) belt stays straight after it's worn for any period of time. 

And since this thread is wildly off the rails, I'll continue it's decline  

Here's my no longer straight pants belt after I stripped it off to help pull a calf when I was feeding the other day. I couldn't hold the legs without having my hands slip off and had to make do with what I had on me at the time. As you can see from the smile on my face, I was wildly happy with my ingenuity and the results. Maybe after this goes to the "fitness" section it can be moved to the "leather goods for veterinary services" section. 

Have a good day folks!

[fredk]

4 hours ago, Josh Ashman said:

Here's the finished belt, still in curve. Not a ton of curve, but enough as far as I'm concerned;

That shore is purdy.

[Josh Ashman]

Thanks Fred! 

[chuck123wapati]

On 3/29/2021 at 11:19 AM, Josh Ashman said:

100% agree with that Jeff and will add that no straight cut pants (or carry) belt stays straight after it's worn for any period of time. 

And since this thread is wildly off the rails, I'll continue it's decline  

Here's my no longer straight pants belt after I stripped it off to help pull a calf when I was feeding the other day. I couldn't hold the legs without having my hands slip off and had to make do with what I had on me at the time. As you can see from the smile on my face, I was wildly happy with my ingenuity and the results. Maybe after this goes to the "fitness" section it can be moved to the "leather goods for veterinary services" section. 

Have a good day folks!

i,ve drug a couple dead elk with mine but never pulled a calf. Great job!!!