Holster shaper

[Skeeter Lewis]

Hey pards, this is my holster shaper. I whittled it to give a pretty accurate generalized shape for a Colt SA. It's made asymmetrically to show the ejector barrel. Holsters aren't marked internally by it and it can be left in as long as you want.

[Cliff Fendley]

Very neat, that looks like a bit of work shaping that and getting it right.

[Slowhand Bob]

Great idea and should be a natural fer me to obtain.  Here, where I live, we have huge numbers of tidal swamp bound cypress trees and around every tree is  a bunch of root formations growing upward that are called cypress knees.  Your mold actually looks a great deal like many of those knees.  This is a great idea for gently opening the holster without the scuffs that always accompany the sharp edges of fitting with an actual gun.  For the revolvers I have been using a large maul handle plus a poly-plastic head from a body shaping hammer.  It is always interesting to see what others are doing.  OH, about those cypress knees, I was jist kidding fokes, cutting them is highly frowned on as it can kill the trees!

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cypress+knees&qpvt=cypress+knees&FORM=IGRE

[Marshal Will Wingam]

That's a great idea. That would take some patience, though.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Bob.

Such was the boatbuilding tradition in the Northeast that woodworkers would plant hackmatac (i.e., northern cypress) so that their
GREAT GRANDSONS would have roots of the hackmatac to use as 'knees' (ribs) instead of having to steam bend (if at all possible) small tight radius ribs ...

In another thought along the same way, boatbuilders would plant pine (probably yellow pine) very close together , so that the trees would constantly be fighting for light. This in grew trees that only had stems at the very top, The trees again would be felled by the progeny generations after the planter was planted himself, making the masts that graced thousands of clippers and schooners.

Okay, I will go back to my corner now ....

TTFN,