Welcome to my RU-vid Channel, where I'll be showing some of the various Leatherwork projects that I'll be doing this year, plus any interesting places or Show events that we'll be attending through the coming Season.
Beautiful job. I’m sure Clint Eastwood would be proud of this project. You may want to look at Weaver Leather in Ohio, USA for buckles. I use Weaver quite often.
Now we just gently persuade it with a leather mallet. Proceeds to beat the absolute piss out of it. I love it. You did a fantastic job sir and i will be watching this video again.
If when the leather is still damp you run over the stitches with a glass slicker or similar smooth hard object it will compress the leather around the thread and close up the hole that the needle made.
I purchased this download, my account has been charged, and no download. I have tried to chat with etsy to no avail!! Can you help me, I have an order number
Thank you very much for this video. I learned more about pattern making in the first eight minutes than I ever knew. Watching a true craftsman in action is a great privilege. Again, *Thank You!*
Seu trabalho é superior parabéns, também faço facas e bainhas, cintos,e coldres.meos trabalhos são bem simples mas bonitos, você é uma grande inspiração.
Have you thought about asking the company that made the rig if they would share the Design of belt buckle or show to a tin Smith 🤔 they can copy brass buckles i believe
Replica buckles can be made based on the original, but the cost is high for the casting molds to be made, and the production run minimums at the foundry.
Years ago I would watch my mother-in-law as she did her leather work. It amazed me how she could work the leather. You sure show the same great skill. I forgot how she could color a design and not have it bleed to other parts. How is that done
I’m trying to make a mix of this and Dutch’s from red dead redemption 2, is 3 inches too wide for a gun belt if it tapers to 1 inch wide for the buckle
Just discovered your channel. I’m curious your making an American movie star / icon when did you not use American leather which is what the original was constructed of ? Ricky from IBM
I’m in England so use leather made here in the traditional way since 1840, it works very well for these holsters, Herman Oak and Wicket & Craig in the US produce good quality leathers but not so easy to get over here.
It depends what it will be used for, fast draw, SASS, CAS, reenactment use etc all would have different specific requirements as to the design, and the firearm needs to be a good functional fit, other than that the choice of decoration and embellishment is unlimited.
You could probably use aluminium, it would need to bit a thicker, maybe 1.5- 2mm to have a similar rigidity, particularly on the “wings”, I don’t thick the weight savings would make much of a difference overall. The pattern would need to be enlarged slightly to take account of the extra metal thickness.
Black powder muzzle loading handguns are still legal here with a license, blank firers are available if you’re in a reenactment group, and many deactivated handguns also.
