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Offline Tommy tornado

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1st Holster (now 2nd holster)
« on: January 09, 2005, 08:01:54 PM »
 ;D  Just got done making my first holster for my 1860 Army!  It was a blast!  A bit rough but then again it is my first.

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Re: 1st Holster
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2005, 06:52:59 AM »
Howdy......
Looks fine ta me...I'd wear it  ;D

Good shootin......
Vern... 8)
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Re: 1st Holster
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2005, 09:51:49 AM »
Looks great!  ;D

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Re: 1st Holster
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2005, 12:24:22 PM »
Tommy, good looking holster, nice stitching too!
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Re: 1st Holster
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2005, 03:47:24 PM »
Thanks for the kind words.  My wife is rolling her eyes because this is yet another hobby, that I have picked up this year.
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Re: 1st Holster
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2005, 04:14:28 PM »
Quote from: Tommy tornado on January 11, 2005, 03:47:24 PM
Thanks for the kind words.  My wife is rolling her eyes because this is yet another hobby, that I have picked up this year.
Hobbies are good!  ;D

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Re: 1st Holster
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2005, 05:27:30 PM »
Quote from: Tommy tornado on January 11, 2005, 03:47:24 PM
Thanks for the kind words.  My wife is rolling her eyes because this is yet another hobby, that I have picked up this year.

Don't feel bad Tommy, when I advised my wife some years ago that I was taking up Buckskinning and needed a shirt, she threw me a disgusted look and then threw me the instruction manual for the sewing machine.

I was a dab hand at making shirts too. (My sons did ask me if I still liked women).

To make things even more embarassing, the evil witch still occasionall asks me to hem a skirt when she's in a hurry. Of couse she got into reenacting herself and eventually took the sewing machine back. :D ;D

(BTW, is it some kind of feminist joke, the instructions that go along with a sewing pattern?)
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Re: 1st Holster
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2005, 07:08:58 PM »
A good looking first effort.  Every artist has one; keep at it.
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Re: 1st Holster
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2005, 01:20:58 AM »
Mtnman,

It could be worse,  when I joined the army they taught me how to clean and sweep, make a bed and scour a shower.  Then for my advanced training they sent me to sew on a sewing machine.  I was beginning to worry there for a while.  Now to add insult to injury my wife bought a sewing machine and she does not sew.

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Re: 1st Holster (now 2nd holster)
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2005, 07:09:28 PM »
Slim Jim for an 1851 Navy Colt.  Stitching got a little bit close to the seam, but it is an improvement over the first.  Still using antique finish on it, however this time it is an 1849 style slim jim with a sewed on belt loop.

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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2005, 07:10:43 PM »
Have to say that using a dremel to even out the edges was a great tip! ;D
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Re: 1st Holster (now 2nd holster)
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2005, 09:16:26 PM »
You're getting it now, soon you will be painting the Mona Lisa, just hope Mona or Lisa don't mind  ;)
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Re: 1st Holster (now 2nd holster)
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2005, 12:29:00 AM »
What method of stitching are you using?  Double needle, or an awl with the needle on it and the  thread in the handle?  Practice makes perfect.
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Re: 1st Holster (now 2nd holster)
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2005, 06:41:07 PM »
Double-needle stitching.  I am getting better at keeping the stitches straight.  I have heard that the double-needle hand stitch is a bit stronger than the awl-stitcher.  Don't know if that is true or not.
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