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Longtooth

<div class="IPBDescription">Leather for the cowboy shooter</div>I will try and answer any questions pretaining to cowboy and horse related equipment. Thank you for the opportunity to try and help with you questions.<br />
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Also, if you want to try and make anything for yourselves just ask. I'm sure I have the necessary items or know where they can be purchased. <br />
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Longtooth

Jailbird

OK Tooth --- let me be the first to pick your brain

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how can I "stiffen" the curl/bell" opening at the mouth of my holsters ? After 5 years of use/abuse -- they are getting "soft" --- no dirty jokes now <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> <br />
Thanks --- Bird

Longtooth

Jailbird wrote on Oct 10 2005, 12&#58;24 AM:

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OK Tooth --- let me be the first to pick your brain

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how can I "stiffen" the curl/bell" opening at the mouth of my holsters ? After 5 years of use/abuse -- they are getting "soft" --- no dirty jokes now <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> <br />
Thanks --- Bird<br />

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Jailbird,<br />
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The problem your having is a problem that most holsters with constant use develop. I have been able on some to open the stitching and insert a still filler. This makes the lip a little firmer. <br />
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The newer holsters being made by leather makers that know the problems that develop when shooting cowboy have gone to adding more leather to the patterns at the lip and then form them to curl out. This has helped. The holsters I have been making for the last few years are made this way. Also, some leather being used by hoster makers are not made in the USA. They use imported goods because the price is cheaper. I have found that this leather is not as durable as the American hides.

Sgt Scattergun

Greetings Longtooth,<br />
I've noticed lately that my pistol "grabs" a bit when I draw from my<br />
strong side holster. It's not coming out as easy as it should. What<br />
could I do?

Longtooth

Sgt Scattergun wrote on Nov 19 2005, 09&#58;28 PM:

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Greetings Longtooth,<br />
I've noticed lately that my pistol "grabs" a bit when I draw from my<br />
strong side holster. It's not coming out as easy as it should. What<br />
could I do?<br />

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Sgt.,<br />
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Try keeping forms in the hosters when not in use. <br />
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Wrap a plastic bag around the the gun and lightly wet the inside of the tight holster with warm water. Jam the gun in and let dry naturally or put in front of a fan until dry. This should solve your problem.<br />
Longtooth<br />
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P.S. Some form that simulates the form of the gun works nicely. I had two wooden forms make that follow the lines of the guns. I had Asleep at the Wheel make mine. Dastardly Dan is a wood worker who could make them for you. I don't know what he would charge but if inclined drop him a email.

Longtooth

Devereaux wrote on Nov 21 2005, 04&#58;07 AM:

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I made some at a friend's house with a lathe. If you have access to a lathe, you can do the same. You need to form a kind of bottle shape, with the main part of the bottle the size of your cylinder. Measure that around and then cut the wood on the lathe to that size. If you are clever, you can cut both ends to something smaller (like the barrels), then when you are done, cut the form in half. I wasn't so clever, so I made mine individually. You need to sand them afterwards, then stain with tung oil or something similar.<br />

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Doc,<br />
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I've seen tennis balls and coke bottles. The wooden dowls like you suggest are the best. Hope you snagged a deer. See you at the next breakfast.<br />
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Tooth

Dastardly Dan

Longtooth wrote on Nov 21 2005, 05&#58;44 AM:

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Doc,<br />
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I've seen tennis balls and coke bottles. The wooden dowls like you suggest are the best. Hope you snagged a deer. See you at the next breakfast.<br />
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Tooth<br />

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I copied a Corona bottle for mine and Huckleberry's<br />
Dan

dd

Until Alseep at the Wheel made my wooden ones, I used a baby food jar.

jeweler jim

Younger is better eating.

Ugly

Besides, pound the meat with a meat tenderizer and add plenty of onions and garlic; how can you go wrong with that combination?