A blast from the past

Sir that is some of the most beautiful gun leather I have ever seen!! I will be mailing you shortly. I am picking up a 3.5 27 no dash very soon for my son. His birthday is in August. Would love for you to make a rig to go with it. He will be 10. But already weighs in at 120 and comes to my neck. I'm 6ft 3in. That would make an extra special birthday gift to have a comfortable and old school holster to put it in. Thanks for your service and enjoy retirement.
 
Beautiful leather work, I'm thinkin I might need to get in line. Not sure if you can stamp leather from a rockin chair but you might as well give it a try.

Keith
 
Beautiful leather work, I'm thinkin I might need to get in line. Not sure if you can stamp leather from a rockin chair but you might as well give it a try.

Keith


Keith,

Well now, don't tarry to long :D

BTW, I'm gonna need a new pair of stocks for a 'Special' project 44 I'm working on...I'll be in touch.

Su Amigo,
Dave
 
Dave, how about telling us the story of how you learned to work leather so well, who your teacher was, etc.

Doesn't seem the kind of thing a fellow would just pick up and teach himself, but if that is the case, that would be interesting, too.
 
Onomea

Well Sir,

I don't recall for certain how many hours I spent watching ol' saddle makers ply their trade...It was a bunch to say the least.

I guess I come from a long line of 'Makers' and everyone seemed to be a building or makin' something all the time.

My Mother was a dressmaker, she sure turned out some fancy ladies dresses and such.
Dad, was forever working on some special project or mending a saddle or harness.

Ya just couldn't run to town everytime something needed fixin'. We were a do-it-yourself or do without - kinda bunch.

Made myself a fancy gun belt when I was first allowed to carry a handgun around the place there for doing chores and riding fences.
Just for sport you know. The holster was a hand-me-down, but fit and wore good enough for a kid.

After I 'aged' some and was big enough to hang around the corrals whenever
my Dad and his cronies were shooting or just passing the time of day.
I studied every man's holster and belt rig in every detail...
Why some of them there old gents would pull their fancy outfits off and let me examine their leather
shucks up close.

One thing leads to another...

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Be it snuffy cowponies or broncy mules bustin' up the equipment, ya got fix it. (BTW, that pony right there was fixin' to get eared down...
He was a good 'n' but sure could bog his ol' head and jar ya to the gills the first thirty or forty yards. Ya'd better be purdy salty.)

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My old saddle I still ride and a new one I built for ol' Cookie, a fine feller that we had slingin' hash in our mountain hunting camps.

Then along came...The Rodeo Days,
(Spur'n one out at Ol' Cheyenne)
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Nah, not me...Much to his Mother's great dis-pleasure, our Son became a Bronc rider in collage
and rode the PRCA circuit, till a little blonde headed Texas gal came along...

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During the rodeo years I made an untold number of 'leggins' for all his pards.
Some were plain and some were just 'plain ol' ugly' like the Bull Riders Special above.
Then, there's my bull elkhide Chinks when they were new. (The same pair you see in some of my firearm photos.)

Well that's about enough of that there...

One of My favorite rigs for the hills
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or just goin' to town...With a 3 1/2" N frame
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Just making 'em really good and stout. And sometimes purdy too.


Su Amigo,
Dave
 
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Dave,
When did your son ride broncs at Cheyenne?
I've been out of those chutes a few times my ownself.

I drove old Casey Tibb's purple Lincoln Continental out in the arena and picked him up when he won the Champeenship one year.
The local Gendarmes and the Frontier Committee had some harsh words for me and Casey over that little deed.
 
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Iggy,

I don't rightly recall the year that photo was made...But it was the 100th Daddy of 'em All.
We motored up to watch him ride that time.

I like them Canadian chuckwagon racing and the muggin'/wild horse race. Pretty wild & wooly.

Oh yeah, single steer ropin' too :D


Dave
 
For you trivia experts, Art Brill's daughter is better known as Mrs. John Connally,(Nellie), who was with John and the Kennedy's in Dallas in the same car in 1963.
 
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Wells Boys,

A lot of water has run down the ol crick since Iggy started this thread years ago.

Some of you all have a custom rig that I have cobbled up....

Here's a few photographs, of jest a few that have gone down the trail.

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp282/keith44spl/TexasJockStrapHolster-1.jpg

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp282/keith44spl/IMG_0109A.jpg


I carve the most of these without a pattern....I jest sit with em, till it tells me what it wants to be...;)

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp282/keith44spl/CarvedBusca3.jpg

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp282/keith44spl/IMG_0041-4.jpg

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp282/keith44spl/DavesNewRig.jpg

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp282/keith44spl/IMG_0608.jpg

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp282/keith44spl/IMG_0497-1.jpg






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Oh, I may have kept one er two for myself




http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp282/keith44spl/IMG_0719.jpg





Su Amigo,
Dave
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That there, boys, is the work of a true artist!!! I've been able to acquire a few nice rigs over the years, but I can tell right now that I'm gonna have to start saving up for at least one or more of Dave's rigs. That's pure quality!!!
 
All this is like Iggy throwin' cold water in my face on a morning after the night before!
I better get my wish in to Mr. Keith to get my new rig built for the 4" 38-44, hadn't I ?
.....I ain't gettin' any younger, no.
 
Git in line!!!;)
I don't know how many holsters I have got from Dave over the years but it's a bunch.

He brought 2 up here a couple of weeks ago. Wyo's got his mitts on one them already and Dave is whittlin' on another one for me right now.
 
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It's true!!!

Mule Packer's is on the bench, got a half dozen on deck....

Will have a new and improved 'Threepersons' kinda classic
style coming up for Iggy's evaluation here purty quick.

One of those rigs that, when things get wild & wooly yur handgun w'll stays with ya! ;):D

I build em one at a time the ol fashion way!


Su Amigo,
Dave

P.S. If'n ya got a order placed and haven't heard from me in the last several months...
email me at [email protected] !
 
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