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    New holster review

    A few months back I started talking to Dwight about making me a plain, but practical and comfortable holster for my Springfield XD .45. We had a few conversations going back and forth about what I wanted but had never gotten to the part where we were talking price before I was distracted by a long business trip. When I got home, there was a box that came in the mail from Dwight and it contained this:



    Dwight was working on a prototype design for a new holster he wanted to start making and mine was the first! I put the gun into it and left it sit for 2-3 weeks to form perfectly to the gun (which it did). Then I started wearing it pretty regularly.

    We went out shooting with it a couple times and it is really easy to draw. The thumb break is an excellent design and does not get in the way at all when drawing. It wears very well and I am happy with it in every respect.

    The one thing I did not know how well it work when we are out hiking in the desert going up and down a lot of steep hills and climbing over fences. Today, Mrs Inor and I decided to find out. We were out for about 3 hours going through some really rough country. The holster worked out perfectly! Once I got it adjusted, I forgot I was even wearing it.

    If you have a boxy plastic gun and are looking for an open carry holster option, definitely talk to Dwight about this baby! I could go on and on about the level of craftsmanship that went into it. But since everybody here knows Dwight turns out nothing but the highest quality stuff, that seems like more typing than I need to do.
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    Very nice looking holster!

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    Nothing beats leather!
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    Nice work Dwight. I'd like to see a picture of the back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baglady View Post
    Nice work Dwight. I'd like to see a picture of the back.
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    That's really heavy leather, huh? Did you have to keep oil on it to form it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baglady View Post
    That's really heavy leather, huh? Did you have to keep oil on it to form it?
    No, . . . never form a holster with oil. Water only, . . . with a judicious application of force, tugging, choking, . . . a couple cups of coffee, . . . and a vacuum pump.

    The little brother to it is mine, . . . carries an ATI commander size 1911.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baglady View Post
    That's really heavy leather, huh? Did you have to keep oil on it to form it?
    Nope. Whatever Dwight put on it when he made it. I just put the pistol in and seated it exactly where I wanted it, then wrapped it with a couple layers of rags. Then I tied rags tightly around it to put pressure on how I wanted it.

    Note: Dwight did a really nice job of forming it to begin with, so my wrap job was probably not necessary. But since G. Gordon Liddy explained the whole process in his autobiography and stated that is how he perfected his holsters, I did it anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dwight55 View Post
    No, . . . never form a holster with oil. Water only, . . . with a judicious application of force, tugging, choking, . . . a couple cups of coffee, . . . and a vacuum pump.

    The little brother to it is mine, . . . carries an ATI commander size 1911.

    Got another even smaller version going out soon to a customer with a 9mm Shield.

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    Sounds like quite an ordeal. Gotta be a labor of love. Nice work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inor View Post
    Nope. Whatever Dwight put on it when he made it. I just put the pistol in and seated it exactly where I wanted it, then wrapped it with a couple layers of rags. Then I tied rags tightly around it to put pressure on how I wanted it.

    Note: Dwight did a really nice job of forming it to begin with, so my wrap job was probably not necessary. But since G. Gordon Liddy explained the whole process in his autobiography and stated that is how he perfected his holsters, I did it anyway.
    Kind of like forming a ball glove...
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