I arrived yesterday morning and set up our display table and sales table. So far I've sold two holsters and bought two. There is a lot of gun leather for sale and some beautiful pieces on display as well.
Today Roy Jinks will speak on Smith and Wesson and WW I.
Looking forward to a great show and seeing some old friends and old guns.
Regards,
turnerriver

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turnerriver

Wish I was there with you guys.

I have way too much leather already, but I would still buy more

Unfortunately Family issues have had me tied up in Central Florida for a few months.

Hi
Judy and I will miss this year. Judy had a kidney removed in Nov just to far to drive. First one we have missed in 15 years. Have a great show and we will see you next year.
Jim & Judy Fisher

I look forward to seeing pictures of your new ones!

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Miss My Buddy crsides!!

This thread needs a picture. I brought this to the symposium.

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Dave

Missing this year, too. New grandbaby takes priority, but already working on a display idea for Reno next year. Had a really great time last year.

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Randy
Provenance nerd

turnerriver, while perhaps not many of us know your given name other than your "handle", AND, more especially your leather;
You likely have as many fans of your skills and collections as anyone there.

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wanna do right-- not right now

That's the only floral carved Chic Gaylord holster I've ever seen.
Regards,
turnerriver

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turnerriver

Very Beautiful work. One of the very best I have ever seen.

Looks a little bit like my Heiser 759.

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In Omnia Paratus

Another Beautiful Holster again. Really nice leather work and attractive at the BBQ. Piece of fine workmanship.

Great symposium this year.
Lots of nice leather on display by turnerriver and many others.

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John

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures!!! Please for us unfortunate folks that can't be there! I would also like to see a picture of John's display.

BTW, is all this nice leather that is on display for sale?

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Miss My Buddy crsides!!

I did not make the event this year either but I received a call from Jim Goldthwaite who is there from NH......I am jealous!! Jim says it's a wonderful setup this year as always. Look forward to hearing what Jim ends up coming home with.

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Tom Graham SWCA #2303

I sure wish all of you fellows the best down there!! Sorry I couldn't make it, but I'm hoping to see lots of great photos, both here and in the next journal!!!

Best Regards, Les

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The only complaint I have is this Hotel has too little Wi-Fi. There is a lot of great Leather, Guns, paper, great guys and gals but taking a lot of time to get on line is a bummer. I had to get up at three AM to check my e-mails.

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Pics of the backside, please of course. Always a pleasure to double check turnerriver's eagle eye :-)

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Red Nichols The Holstorian

who sells these holsters if still available?

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Live to Ride

Jim, I will give you a call today, enjoy the symposium!!

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Tom Graham SWCA #2303

My eyes, my eyes, great now I am blind!

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Miss My Buddy crsides!!

"My Lord in Heaven, forgive me for I have looked upon a sight that shall forevermore jaundice my views of mankind's ability to hurt his fellow-man"!

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wanna do right-- not right now

Sorry I was confused.

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Dave

45wheelgun it is far far too late now. There are some things that can never be "un-seen".

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wanna do right-- not right now

Here's a photo of our display- ordnanceguy & turnerriver, shiny guns & S.D. Myres leather.
Regards
turnerriver

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turnerriver

Hope it is the best turnout ever.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

I hope you will consider allowing John to photograph it for The Book. As he implied, that is a rare one, and so ideal for a holster history book :-)

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Red Nichols The Holstorian

Thanks for the picture, John. Looks like a great display! I always like seeing your gun rugs.

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Miss My Buddy crsides!!

I had a few holsters out for sale, and the obligatory box 'o holsters for customer perusal:

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John

Gorgeous, including the Hoyt crossdraw (brown) at top centre of your larger picture.

You have a very rare holster (which doesn't make it valuable) in the small, lower pic; I've been looking for one for 50 years. Can you pick which one it is? Like to have a big pic of it for The Book if you've a mind to do so :-).

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Red Nichols The Holstorian

Well one of them fits my new, to me, model 36 to a T. Wore it on the drive home. Thanks John.

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Always Stay Strong!

Red, the brown Hoyt crossdraw is a very substantial and well made piece of leather; it's for a .38/44 6.5" gun.
As far as the "rare" holster, are you talking about the brown Bianchi 9R shoulder rig?
Also unusual is the B-M holster in the upper left of the table shot; it's a B-M/Evaluators collaboration built as a shoulder holster. Took a few of us some considerable time to figure out the strap orientation to make it work. Still unweidly.

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John

For some reason my first look at your images gave me tiny pics, yet now I get bigger ones; so had a better look to confirm. Yes, that use of a Speed Holster as a Lightnin would have taken some thinking! I wouldn't trust a loaded, full-sized steel revolver in it, upside down. I'm also verifying a pair of Stagecoach 'break front' holsters at centre right.

Yes, that Bianchi 9R is rare, for a reason that's obvious to me but few others (not it also has Western 'block' letters in the stamp): it was the very, very first offer of the design and is minus the so-called 'tension screw' near the muzzle. It's not a tension screw; we had to add it to get back the function of the stitched-in welt inside the Berns-Martin original -- the little guns were falling out without it!! The spacer keeps the muzzle from rotating inside the holster, and preventing that keeps the trigger guard inside its retention pocket until the wearer forces the pistol out himself. You'll see the problem, now, in this original catalogue pic when it was introduced in 1973

14 9R are added a.jpg:

I hope you'll allow turnerriver to photograph it (I haven't asked him, but you're right there with him) because he is principal photographer for The Book :-).

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Red Nichols The Holstorian

Red, I updated the pics with bigger ones.
I've had that old Bianchi 9R since about 1970, as I recall--were they made that early? I've worn it so much over the years that the ledge inside which holds the cylinder in place has worn so much that the gun "slips" out a little.
The SWCA Symposium is over; I'm home and I hope turnerriver is, too.
I'd be happy to take some pics, just message or email me and let me know what you want. If my pics aren't up to snuff, I'll send the rig to turnerriver so he can do it to your satisfaction.
Meanwhile, here's another pic. Mostly gun, but you can see the marking on the 9R very well.
P.S. If I'd known it was "rare" I wouldn't have put it in the $25 box! Glad it didn't sell.

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John

I'll take it.

charlie

Its working title was 'baby 27' because it's a reduced Model 27 Break Front. Indeed we were developing it in Monrovia '70-'71 before the shift to Temecula circa 1972, introduction for the '73 catalogue. VERY few were sold in the form you have (no fulcrum screw).

If you got my original point, it 'slips out a little' because there is no fulcrum point -- leather spacer in the BM and post-n-screw-grommet in the Bianchi -- to keep the cylinder engaged inside the cylinder cutouts and the trigger guard engaged inside its pocket. That is, 'fixing' the problem is not changing the cutouts, it's adding back the fulcrum point. I know, not obvious; and yet BM certainly knew it was necessary.

The BM creates its version of the cylinder cutouts of the 9R with the wire-form spring that passes flat across frame at the recoil shield. The slits in the leather at that point are supposed to make this possible without wet moulding the leather itself.

I'll send a PM :-).

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