What I'd like to know is if everyone used the exact same tools as Will has listed on his website (completing this rig)? I would have to buy around 10 more stamps in order to do this according to his website instructions.
Could you add the stamps you all used?
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So 5 answers to that:
1) Since the movie came out in 07, and the patterns came out more recently, a lot of people tried to make those holsters from what they saw on the screen. Some of these attempts are buried in the old threads of this site, I know I have come across them, though whether they were all referred to as HOG, before the pattern came out is another mater. Might require a few different search terms, like "Crowe", etc...
2) The pattern as laid out in the instructable on Will's site gives the tools Will actually used which include some old tools.
3) However the Instructable, or the patterns give modern alternative tools. So there are options even in the plans, and obviously some of the tools are generic.
4) Will's pattern is a masterpiece with a lot of "layers" The photo below shows one of mine that is not even half way done, it already has a lot of character without a lot of the tools being used. Compared to a lot of "tooled" holsters that may include only border tooling or the first impressions of a leaf pattern, or whatever, Will's has a lot of components that you can decide how deep you want to go into .
5) The first version I made of this holster I copied the pattern from his site (bought it later when it became available), and did it on a 1911 training holster (later put the finished design under something to flatten it, and it has yet to show up.
). Anyway, as an example, I did all the background stuff with some of the Tandy matting tools, and it looked good, though certainly different.