My "rushed", yet pretty accurate Holster.

EchoSix · Post by **EchoSix** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:08 am

Wested had shown a few items on their website, that were for sale... But it turned out they didn't really have them in stock. A few weeks ago, Peter had purchased quite a few boxes of items that belonged to Noel Howard. Some of the boxes that had the contents written on the outside of the box, apparently weren't totally accurate as to what were in the boxes.

So, when I "purchased" a holster from their site, I actually purchased a fictional holster.

To make a long story short, due to a two week delay in getting a response from Gemma, I had to ask a gentleman I know who does high quality leather work, to crank out a holster for me, for a Halloween party, which was only three days away.

I sent him the measurements and a few links to some pictures, and this is what he made for me, in less than a few hours...

Here's a few BIG pictures...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... 25d541.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... 07fbb2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... a4c482.jpg

Not bad, huh?

He's made a LOT of leather items for me in the past.

Here's some of the other things he made custom...

This is a rig he made for my wife's "Zoe" costume, from the television show Firefly...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... 50c2ee.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... 6897d5.jpg

And this is my "Mal Reynolds" rig from Firefly as well...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... a6c3a0.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... 438b4b.jpg

But his crowning glory, is all the leather work he did for my Altair/Assassin's Creed costume...

Distressed... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... G_3182.jpg
Pre-Distressed... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... G_3159.jpg

Here are some Flickr photos, of more of it... http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfisher/ ... 873022393/

His name is Paul Combest and he has an Ebay store called Reddog Leather. He can make anything out of leather. It's pretty cool what he can do.

bigrex · Post by **bigrex** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:18 pm

Looks great, I also like the color of the seams.

EchoSix · Post by **EchoSix** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:47 am

Sooo... I guess there's supposed to be a drainage hole in the bottom though, huh?

RaiderZee · Post by **RaiderZee** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:11 am

Looks great! How much did he charge for the holster?

RaiderZee
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Jakob Emiliussen · Post by **Jakob Emiliussen** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:14 am

Wow, that's pretty SA for only a couple of hours work... Love it!

knibs7 · Post by **knibs7** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:48 pm

Dang! That would take me at least a few DAYS, let alone hours. Nice job!

NIBS

twilekjedi · Post by **twilekjedi** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:57 pm

Wow, I'm impressed. Pretty accurate, I'll have to say.

Solent MKIII · Post by **Solent MKIII** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:41 am

Methinks someone is going to be getting many more Indy holster requests soon.

EchoSix · Post by **EchoSix** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:49 pm

Yeah guys... DEFINITELY give him a shout.

His email is comb231z@duo-county.com and his name is Paul.

Nice, nice, nice guy. And I can't say enough about his work.

twilekjedi · Post by **twilekjedi** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:40 pm

So how much was the holster?