The New SHOW US YER STUFF Thread #4 Now Closed for Reference Only

[Johnny McCrae]

The credit for this one goes to Ten Wolves for sending me the pattern and introducing me to home brewed Walnut Dyes.

[will52100]

My first lined holsters.  I've made a few over the years, but always unlined and never with any kind of carving or decorations.

The first one is the first lined one I did, cross draw.  The second one is my foray into vinagroon staining.  Made a bunch of mistakes, but it's mine and I learned a lot and hopefully won't repeat the mistakes.  Also my first attempt at carving.  Biggest issue is I should have finished the holster including sewing everything up then used the vinagroon.  Wouldn't have washed out the carving as bad and would have had an easier time of it.  The black one I decided to sew the perimeter with black thread and the main welt with white, I'm now thinking I either should have sewed it all black or all white.  In any event, I'm very happy with the vinagroon, I'd sworn off black dye, but now have something that won't wipe off onto hands, clothes, ect.

[Johnny McCrae]

Howdy wiil52100,

Very nice work! Thanks for sharing it with us.

I'd heartily agree that Vinagroon is the way to go for Black.

[will52100]

I'm really liking it, but it is a bit different than using a normal oil dye, but not bad once you figure it out.

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Those look great, pard. Congrats on the lining and the decorating. For sure vinegaroon is the best black possible. Thanks for sharing.

[TUCO-the-ratt]

I hope this post is in the right place. This is an item only a cowboy action shooter can appreciate. I built a scaled western building to sit on my home shooting range. Try to guess what the actual size of it is. A hint is that it is scaled down from a full size building but the pictures are not photo shopped in any way.

[will52100]

Looks good!  Say about 6' overall hight?

[TUCO-the-ratt]

Good guess, about 7 feet to the top of the false front wall.

[will52100]

So is it just 3 sided?  Or is it a box? 

Got the size from the post off to the side.

[TUCO-the-ratt]

It's got four sides, a roof, and a floor inside (25 square feet). The back doesn't have any siding, just OSB and a full size door so I can go in. I'm using it as a shed to store my targets, brass bucket and other shooting accessories. The roof has a very slight slope to the rear and is covered in brown tin that is overlapped at the seems to shed the water. It's weather tight and I've coated it with high quality stain to preserve the wood.

I was originally going to build it half scale but that would have cost about $3000 in material. I used 1and1/2 inch X 1/8 inch lattice strips for the siding that I got got as scrap off a job I did. That was perfect for a 1/4 scale building so I went with that and still spent about $400 on the project.

It took about three weeks to build because I worked hard to build each piece to exactly 1/4 scale. The windows and doors were particularly hard. The windows had to be hand cut with a knife. Also, I built it so I could take it apart into 5 pieces to be light enough that I could move it by hand.   

[Marshal Will Wingam]

That's an outstanding job. Beautiful. Three weeks? That's fast considering. I like it a lot.

[will52100]

No kidding, and functional to boot!  Would love something like that for my range, but then it'd be something else to bush hog around.  Love the idea of using it as a storage shed though, very cool.

[Don Nix]

I ran across these pics of the last saddle I built before I closed down my shop. Its built on a reconditioned (rebuilt) tree that dated to the 1880's or 1890's.
When I had this tree rebuilt I had a copy made identical to it except with a 16 inch seat and arizona bars.
One of these days I'm going to build a saddle on that tree for my oldest grandson.

[TUCO-the-ratt]

The old style saddles are really cool. I don't think I've seen this elsewhere (new saddles built in the old style)

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Looks great, Don. I love those old saddle designs.

[Cliff Fendley]

Great looking saddle Don

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

Well done Don...

tEN wOLVES...

[Skeeter Lewis]

A new project -

[Lucky R. K.]

Here is a pair of Slim Jim's and pouch I am building for my Pietta 1851's. Waiting on a buckle to finish the belt.

Lucky

[Johnny McCrae]

Outstanding! Look forward to seeing the finished Rig.