1st Holster (now 2nd holster)

[Tommy tornado]

   Just got done making my first holster for my 1860 Army!  It was a blast!  A bit rough but then again it is my first.

http://members.tripod.com/tommytornado36056/id25.htm

[Foothills Drifter]

Howdy......
Looks fine ta me...I'd wear it 

Good shootin......
Vern...

[Silver Creek Slim]

Looks great! 

Slim

[Micheal Fortune]

Tommy, good looking holster, nice stitching too!

[Tommy tornado]

Thanks for the kind words.  My wife is rolling her eyes because this is yet another hobby, that I have picked up this year.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Thanks for the kind words.  My wife is rolling her eyes because this is yet another hobby, that I have picked up this year.

Hobbies are good! 

Slim

[Doc Neeley]

Thanks for the kind words.  My wife is rolling her eyes because this is yet another hobby, that I have picked up this year.

Don't feel bad Tommy, when I advised my wife some years ago that I was taking up Buckskinning and needed a shirt, she threw me a disgusted look and then threw me the instruction manual for the sewing machine.

I was a dab hand at making shirts too. (My sons did ask me if I still liked women).

To make things even more embarassing, the evil witch still occasionall asks me to hem a skirt when she's in a hurry. Of couse she got into reenacting herself and eventually took the sewing machine back.

(BTW, is it some kind of feminist joke, the instructions that go along with a sewing pattern?)

[El Peludo]

A good looking first effort.  Every artist has one; keep at it.

[Old Top]

Mtnman,

It could be worse,  when I joined the army they taught me how to clean and sweep, make a bed and scour a shower.  Then for my advanced training they sent me to sew on a sewing machine.  I was beginning to worry there for a while.  Now to add insult to injury my wife bought a sewing machine and she does not sew.

Old (confused) Top

[Tommy tornado]

Slim Jim for an 1851 Navy Colt.  Stitching got a little bit close to the seam, but it is an improvement over the first.  Still using antique finish on it, however this time it is an 1849 style slim jim with a sewed on belt loop.

http://members.tripod.com/tommytornado36056/id26.htm

[Tommy tornado]

Have to say that using a dremel to even out the edges was a great tip!

[Micheal Fortune]

You're getting it now, soon you will be painting the Mona Lisa, just hope Mona or Lisa don't mind 

[El Peludo]

What method of stitching are you using?  Double needle, or an awl with the needle on it and the  thread in the handle?  Practice makes perfect.

[Tommy tornado]

Double-needle stitching.  I am getting better at keeping the stitches straight.  I have heard that the double-needle hand stitch is a bit stronger than the awl-stitcher.  Don't know if that is true or not.