Recently finished pair

[Irish Dave]

Just posting a couple of recently finished California style pieces for a good customer in SC. These are for a pair of R-M 1860 conversions.
These were finished in a slightly antiqued manner (an occasional blemish, smudge , streak etc.) to approximate the look of the used belt I was trying to match.



11/17/11      Well, Village Photos appears to still be crapped out, so I'm gonna try attaching the pix directly as soon as I get home.
Stay tuned....

Got 'em.

[KidTerico]

Irish Thats a great looking pair of holsters your showing. Nice color. Customer should be right proud of them. KT

[Cliff Fendley]

Extremely fine work Dave!

[Wolf Tracker]

Dave very nice work.

[Okefinokee Outlaw]

This customer will be very right proud of them.  Gorgeous.

[Long Juan]

Dave, those are fabulous.  Exactly my style.  Just finished tonight a buscadero rig (which is not my style) for my daughter to use when cowboy action shooting.  We are a three generation CAS shooting family.  My grandson started a couple of years ago and my daughter started this past summer.  Will take some photos of the new rig this weekend to post. 

[GunClick Rick]

Very nice,senb the next ones to Californy~~

[Johnny McCrae]

Excellent work Dave!
What did you use to put the cross hatch lines in? Many thanks for sharing this with us.

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

  Beautiful work Dave, and and very nice on the fine detail of your tooling, thanks for sharing pard


              tEN wOLVES 

[Irish Dave]

Thanks, pards.

The color turned out to be a mixture of Fiebing's Light Tan, British Tan and Dark Brown. As I mentioned, I was trying to match my customer's (Okefinokee Outlaw) existing belt from another maker.  Kind of a tough job. Then "antiqued".

Johnny: The crosshatch, believe it or not, is spaced using an old newspaper tool called a "pica pull" or "pica pole"  depending on your locale (it's actualy just a kind of narrow aluminum ruler). The lines were made in the damp leather with the "pointy" end   of an old, medium dull, large harness needle. It makes a nice deep impression without actually cutting the leather.

[Johnny McCrae]

Thanks Dave. The Cross Hatching gives the Holster a real distinctive and classic look. I'm going to have to try this.

[Skeeter Lewis]

Great work as always.

[Boothill Bob]

Dave, those are some awsome holsters, very nice job.

[Drayton Calhoun]

Absolutely beautiful! Clean and classy!

[santee]

Yeah, I like 'em, too. The crosshatch is classy.

[Arizona Cattleman]

Fine pair of holsters Irish,

AC

[Lucky R. K.]

Hi Dave,

I saw this thread and decided to check out the holsters because I love your work.  There are no pictures here.

Lucky   

[Irish Dave]

Thanks for the kind words.

You're right. Don't know what's happened to the photos. I'm wondering if the website where they're hosted is having problems. I'll check into it. Thanks for the heads up.

[Irish Dave]

Just received this from the folks at Village Photos:

Ripside Interactive, Inc.
Temporarily Unavailable

We apologize that we are experiencing a temporary system-wide outage. We are moving to a new internet provider, hoping early this week.  We have been unable to get into our email help desk because of this outage, and we apologize for the lack of communication.

We are responding to the emails we have received as quickly as possible, in the order they came in.

I appreciate your patience, and we understand your frustration.

Scott Smith
President
Ripside Interactive, Inc.

Hopefully they'll get things up and running soon and the photos will re-appear.

[Lucky R. K.]

Thanks Dave, I will look forward to seeing them.

Lucky