Ratdog68
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I stopped in to visit my buddy Andy... he's the Tandy Leather store owner in my area. Last year I fixed his 1860 Army with a new hand... and did some cleaning of it for him. Since no good deed goes unpunished, he made a couple of custom leather knife sheaths for me... inlaid with varied colors of leather on one... and some snake skin on the other.
Anywho... he's started in with building himself a holster for it. OMG !!! It's five layers of leather up to the trigger guard and becomes seven layers there. In other words... fulling lined with smooth leather inside the holster, the skirt has smooth leather on both sides, the welt goes from one layer to three layers up near the trigger guard. The entire welt edge has been smoothed on a belt sander to give it that uniform appearance. The holster body was wet formed to the gun. He's got the back half of the holster cut such that it becomes the "skirt" (behind the holster) and also forms the loop that the gun belt feeds through. Two straps which are riveted to the skirt will wrap around the holster and are secured with brass buckles. It'll have some stamped design on the edges of the skirt... and then will be "antiqued" and some darker dye airbrushed around the edges. It be lookin' SWEET !!! The holster body will get drilled on a drill press for the stitching holes through the five/seven layers of leather at the welt edge.. and it'll get hand saddle stitched. I need to get busy making myself a rig for some of my pistolas !!
Anywho... he's started in with building himself a holster for it. OMG !!! It's five layers of leather up to the trigger guard and becomes seven layers there. In other words... fulling lined with smooth leather inside the holster, the skirt has smooth leather on both sides, the welt goes from one layer to three layers up near the trigger guard. The entire welt edge has been smoothed on a belt sander to give it that uniform appearance. The holster body was wet formed to the gun. He's got the back half of the holster cut such that it becomes the "skirt" (behind the holster) and also forms the loop that the gun belt feeds through. Two straps which are riveted to the skirt will wrap around the holster and are secured with brass buckles. It'll have some stamped design on the edges of the skirt... and then will be "antiqued" and some darker dye airbrushed around the edges. It be lookin' SWEET !!! The holster body will get drilled on a drill press for the stitching holes through the five/seven layers of leather at the welt edge.. and it'll get hand saddle stitched. I need to get busy making myself a rig for some of my pistolas !!
