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    Quote Originally Posted by Inor View Post
    When you start making those for sale, please let me know. That would look pretty slick on my Henry.

    How does the forend cuff deal with the heat of the barrel? That is the one thing with that big heavy octagonal barrel, my Henry gets HOT and stays HOT.
    I'll have to get some ammo through it and get back to you on that. I would imagine with the leather being as heavy as it is (7-9oz) it will probably hold up just fine. In .30-30 it'll be pretty expensive to get the rifle that hot, I imagine your Henry is probably a pistol caliber carbine. I still have to figure out whether or not I can make that forend cuff adjustable and what the price will be with and without the sling. I'll post an update once I figure that stuff out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Infidel View Post
    I'll have to get some ammo through it and get back to you on that. I would imagine with the leather being as heavy as it is (7-9oz) it will probably hold up just fine. In .30-30 it'll be pretty expensive to get the rifle that hot, I imagine your Henry is probably a pistol caliber carbine. I still have to figure out whether or not I can make that forend cuff adjustable and what the price will be with and without the sling. I'll post an update once I figure that stuff out.

    -Infidel
    Yes - My Henry is a .357.

    Even if it cannot deal with the heat, if it can be made to remove it easily when at the range, and have the sling when riding/hiking, it would definitely be a cool addition to my "cowboy garb".
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    Not all holsters are for guns!

    Had a customer contact me asking to build a carrier for an insulin pump. He had already bought a crossdraw holster for his 1911 and wanted something to match that holster. We kicked it around a bit and this is what we came up with. Basically it's a high rise pancake holster for his insulin pump. It came out great, the pictures really don't do it justice. Retention is so good I had to rub the inside of the piece down a bit with some bees' wax. This piece of leather was particularly smooth on the flesh side, much smoother than normal which created so much friction on the insulin pump that it was a chore to get in and out of the holster. A little wax on the inside and it's perfect.






    Pay particular attention to the edges of the piece, the burnishing on this piece came out like glass. This piece of leather turned out to be a really great piece for an economy grade leather, sometimes I get good ones but this is the best I've gotten yet.

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    Great idea! Very nice!
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    I like your work!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Talon View Post
    I like your work!
    He does very excellent work. He made a holster for Mrs Inor's S&W Shield a while back that came out great.
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    For the Duckman

    I have some in progress build photos of a holster and speed loader pouches commissioned by our very own RubberDuck. I thought he might be interested in how it's all coming together. So here we go:

    This is the holster body pieces all cut out before stamping and dying. Stitch lines are started on the outer piece but they won't be finished until the pieces are glued and sanded smooth on the edges, this will keep the stitch lines consistent and away from the edge where they can rip out.


    Same picture but of the inside. The lay out lines are drawn in ink so I know where to stop dying and where the glue needs to be. This will become more obvious once dyed.


    Here's the belt loops for the speedloader pouches being molded. I forgot to get a picture of the actual pouches being molded though.


    Here's the inside of all the pieces after dye. You can see here why the layout lines were important, glue doesn't stick too well on a dyed surface so I try wherever possible to keep dye away from where I need to apply glue. There's always a little bleed over but it'll be under a stitch line where it's not critical.


    Here's the outside of all but one piece I had to re-mold a belt loop so it's not present in the picture.

    More pictures as the build progresses.

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    That is very cool to see the progress.
    This is going to compliment the wood and stainless nicely and look forward to the comfort of a low ride.
    I have yet to find a low ride for this revolver so this will be awesome to have one custom for me.

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    Color looks good. Can't wait to see it in action with the wheel gun in it.
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    Duckman's project finished!

    Finished Rubberduck's new handgun rig and I've got some more pictures for you guys. The first couple of pictures are of the wet molding process.

    This is a good shot of the monogram, it shows up better on the dull finish

    So the tools in this picture are my oblong punch for cutting belt slots, a stitching groover for cutting the stitch groove and the handle is great for molding the trigger guard area. The antler and sharpie are molding tools. The points on the antler work great for creasing the leather.

    Here's some pictures of the finish project:

    The interior finish looks like cracked leather in this picture but it's just the way the finish turned out, the leather is fine. I think I laid the finish on a bit too thick.



    To be continued....
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