When the customer approached me about a holster and matching belt-mounted magazine pouch for a ten-year anniversary present, he wasn’t attached to any specific styling besides some color requests. His wife’s handgun was the same kind as my personal firearm, a Walther PPK 380 pistol. This made the next step easy– I showed him my vintage holster. With some general inspiration, I was off!
On a side note, if anyone out there on the interwebs knows where I can find more of the Franz-Loc heavy duty belt clip hardware pieces, LET ME KNOW!
These days we are all on a budget, so it’s understandable when people want to snap up the mass-produced leather products you see in specialty shops and sold online at places like Amazon. I have one opinion regarding leather craft that I will never budge on: keep it old school. Using the correct methods laid out by our maker-forepeople will create useable works of art that will last a lifetime or more. That includes tedious stamping, edge finishing, and casing leather.