OT: Muy .45 Nueva Vaquero En Nueva Funda
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OT: Muy .45 Nueva Vaquero En Nueva Funda
I just finished Baby's new coat, including a Half-Dollar concho.
Now, I gotta start on a belt and finish making a set of grips.
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Now, I gotta start on a belt and finish making a set of grips.
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Re: OT: Muy .45 Nueva Vaquero En Nueva Funda
WOW! Nice work!
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Great work mate, my grandfather was a saddler and he taught me to do a bit of leatherwork, now that I look at your holster it brings back a lot of good memories and reminds me that I should get a few projects going myself.
Thanks for the post - really good work.
Pop Watts
Thanks for the post - really good work.
Pop Watts
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Re: OT: Muy .45 Nueva Vaquero En Nueva Funda
Nice work, looks great, what sort of grips
Pete
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
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Pete,
Ya done good!
Ya done good!
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Re: OT: Muy .45 Nueva Vaquero En Nueva Funda
Great work!
Where do you get your leather
and your tools ? Looks like a nice hobby!
Where do you get your leather
and your tools ? Looks like a nice hobby!
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Re: OT: Muy .45 Nueva Vaquero En Nueva Funda
Excellent work, Pete. Nice tooling and design. I think at the next rendezvous you'd sell those as fast as corn liquor. By the looks of the stitching it's done by machine, is it?
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Thanks, to all, for the kind remarks !
I've had leather-working tools, laying around my workshop, since the -70's, and a late friend gave me a side of treated cowhide about then too, that's almost depleted.
The edge stitching on the holster is machine done, but I did the flap by hand with a curved saddler's needle, because I had this dumb idea about a strap pouch holster (which simply folds to form the belt loop) - which turned out sour on a short barreled shootin' iron.
Sooooooo, I cut off half of the back flap and the loop area, trimmed it to a taper and sewed the tip to the closed holster body.
The coloring is a combination of shoe polishes, overlaid/buffed - brown/cordovan/oxblood.
I like a retaining thong on the hammer, ILO a strap - so that's simply threaded through a hole punched in the rear top wall and knotted in back, after I first measured the right length for this gun in this holster.
I'm debating add a tie-down thong, braided into what looks like a hangman's noose, and hung from the bottom.
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I've had leather-working tools, laying around my workshop, since the -70's, and a late friend gave me a side of treated cowhide about then too, that's almost depleted.
The edge stitching on the holster is machine done, but I did the flap by hand with a curved saddler's needle, because I had this dumb idea about a strap pouch holster (which simply folds to form the belt loop) - which turned out sour on a short barreled shootin' iron.
Sooooooo, I cut off half of the back flap and the loop area, trimmed it to a taper and sewed the tip to the closed holster body.
The coloring is a combination of shoe polishes, overlaid/buffed - brown/cordovan/oxblood.
I like a retaining thong on the hammer, ILO a strap - so that's simply threaded through a hole punched in the rear top wall and knotted in back, after I first measured the right length for this gun in this holster.
I'm debating add a tie-down thong, braided into what looks like a hangman's noose, and hung from the bottom.
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Very nice Pete! I like the Liberty Half Dollar too.
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VERY tasteful!
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Re: OT: Muy .45 Nueva Vaquero En Nueva Funda
I agree that is excellent work.Borregos wrote:Nice work, looks great, what sort of grips
Borregos, those are the Ruger factory black plastic grips they use now.
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Re: OT: Muy .45 Nueva Vaquero En Nueva Funda
I have a slab of what I think is Gaboon Ebony, which is a dark reddish brown with black streaking grain, that I intend to whittle to fit the XR3 gripframe & internal lock on my NV.
When I get done, THEN I'll have to decide between "no medallions", Ruger Black Eagle Medallions, or inlaid .45 Colt cutoff brass case heads (which are the same 1/2" diameter as the Ruger medallions).
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When I get done, THEN I'll have to decide between "no medallions", Ruger Black Eagle Medallions, or inlaid .45 Colt cutoff brass case heads (which are the same 1/2" diameter as the Ruger medallions).
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I like the idea of the case heads, I put a cut off 30-30 case head on a Pachmyer grip for my 14" T/C 30-30 in place of the Pachmyer logo that fell out, it looks good
Pete
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
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Well, no habala espanola partner, but looks to me like that's the model 455 "case colored" like mine. Looks real nice. Specally riding a horse.
I'm using a factory dbl. loop holster myself.
I'm using a factory dbl. loop holster myself.
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VERY nice work, Pete!
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