HOLSTORY IS HERE!

beetledude said:
guilty! :D
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The owner of the guns and the holsters on the cover AND took the picture itself! The Book project really took off when we circulated a mockup of the cover, with this image in it, around to all the folks needed to pull this one off. Turnerriver and I owe a big debt to all of you, and especially to 'whatsisname' here.
 
Massad Ayoob said:
Loved the book, Red. Entertaining AND most informative!
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Thank you so much, Mas.

Mas is the reason there are more than 1000 footnotes in The Book; an early draft to him of quite a different approach to a holster book contained an historical approximation (which I will define as 'close but still completely wrong'); and I knew then that for The Book, only thorough research and matching footnotes would be suitable. One of my team disliked the notion of footnoting as distracting but I made a 'captains call' and included them; to his credit he wanted the index and I didn't; so I included it and am very, very pleased that it is there (p.s. the indexing system in the software wouldn't look at the captions; so makers in the Honorable Mention chapter at the end don't necessarily appear in the index).

I find the result, with footnotes, to be quite like a pro reads a patent: look at the patent's drawings (images) first, then the patent's claims (footnotes) then the patent's specification (story text).

The database is added to quite often; the research process has not stopped.
 
Wyatt Burp said:
So, Elmer had a Triple Lock Target .44 and an Outdoorsman .38 for this rig with loops for BOTH calibers. I never knew that about the rig until this book. Then he scored another .44 along the way somewhere. I wonder how those holsters were stitched on the belt. Seems like the force of constantly pushing the gun out the front would be hard on stitching.
I think those guns and rig now reside not far from me. What a ton of history wrapped up un them.
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It was particularly interesting to me to read that the B-M holsters
were stitched to the belt. I'm just vain enough to think that I
had invented that concept. Long time ago I fastened the Slim
Jim and the home made knife sheath to the cartridge belt with
Chicago screws. Photo below.
 

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crazyphil said:
It was particularly interesting to me to read that the B-M holsters
were stitched to the belt. I'm just vain enough to think that I
had invented that concept. Long time ago I fastened the Slim
Jim and the home made knife sheath to the cartridge belt with
Chicago screws. Photo below.
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If you read The Book a bit more closely, you'll notice mention that the holster was sewn to the belt BEFORE the lining and even the springs were inserted! Detail pics below -- these holsters don't even have belt loops (also mentioned in The Book):

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So your invention might be safe.
 
Stands alongside a few other books that have chronicled the development of the holster. None though, follows the evolution of the 20th century holster and gun leather as well as this one. A significant contribution.

I'm looking forward to reading the reviews in the gun mags and online.

Thanks Red for letting me help a bit.



tipoc (Raul)
 
tipoc said:
Stands alongside a few other books that have chronicled the development of the holster. None though, follows the evolution of the 20th century holster and gun leather as well as this one. A significant contribution.

I'm looking forward to reading the reviews in the gun mags and online.

Thanks Red for letting me help a bit.



tipoc (Raul)
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It's a special honor to have tipoc's images in The Book because their contents could not have been assembled for pics by anyone else -- original Nelsons. Often copied, never duplicated.
 
tipoc said:
Thanks for the link to the review Mr. Ayoob!

If others come across reviews links would be appreciated.

tipoc
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It's also reviewed in American Handgunner, having appeared in the magazine's January 2019 issue :-). It also will appear in a review by John Taffin in Guns magazine early in this next (2019) year. John was more than kind, as were Mas and Roy.

All the reviews have contributed materially to The Book's sales and yet the clear winner has been the endorsement by this Forum (at the beginning of this thread, which Crazy Phil was kind enough to kick off for turnerriver and me). Many, many thanks.
 
rednichols said:
It's also reviewed in American Handgunner, having appeared in the magazine's January 2019 issue :-). It also will appear in a review by John Taffin in Guns magazine early in this next (2019) year. John was more than kind, as were Mas and Roy.

All the reviews have contributed materially to The Book's sales and yet the clear winner has been the endorsement by this Forum (at the beginning of this thread, which Crazy Phil was kind enough to kick off for turnerriver and me). Many, many thanks.
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I was happy to kick off such a fine holster book. And it was an
honor to help you, a little bit, with some of the research. I wish
you a lot of success with the book. I suspect it will be a source
of research for centuries to come. With my little book, Renowned
Gun Leather, my experience was similar. Lots of sales from
Roy's endorsement in American Handgunner, but many more
from our fellow member's support here on the forum, due to
John's great endorsement.

PS I don't subscribe to GUNS, but Taffin is a friend and I enjoy
his writing, so I will pick one up off the rack.
 
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Doc Watson said:
great book, very interesting read. I am getting ready to read it again as I am sure I missed something!
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Thanks so much for that :-). I, too, look it over from time to time; in part to see if I've acquired anything in my continuing research that adds or corrects anything in it. So far so good!

A comment was made to Witty that The Book is a bit heavy on the 'genealogy' and when I re-read the Heiser chapter I could see the point! Just about put me to sleep, the focus on the minute details that nevertheless quantify the when and where of Heiser's contribution to Holstory.

Usually I don't get much past the Brill (chapter 1) and Threepersons (chapter 2) portions which are more historically revealing. The Berns chapter, the Ojala chapter, and the Gaylord chapter remind me of how little was known about these chaps before The Book.
 
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I just grabbed my copy from the coffee table. There are 14 separate page references to Milt Sparks. The book is truly outstanding, both the writing and photographs.
 
Captiva said:
Does the book cover Milt Sparks Holsters out of Idaho?
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Yes. The books index lists 14 citations of Milt Sparks. Red's website also discusses Sparks' work and is a valuable source.

I don't know if the book will satisfy your needs but it will advance your knowledge. The citations (footnotes), which back up Red's opinions, lead to other sources such as magazine articles, books, etc.
 
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