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Picking favorites. Not cool if it’s your kids, but holsters don’t read.

Gibson Leather, Bruce Gibson Design, natural Hermann Oak leather OWB holster with rope basket stamp and liner. Roughout back panel.
Natural OWB with rope basket stamp, Barry King half-flower border, lined with roughout back panel.

This one’s a favorite. I built it last week along with a dozen others, but I only lined two of them. The other is the hammered finish I put in another post a week or so back. I like it, too, but I really like this one. That doesn’t happen too often. I should probably use the past tense talking about this–this one’s not mine anymore. It’s got a new home in South Texas, and it was interesting packing it up in that Priority Mail box and putting it in the hands of the Postal Service. It’s my hope the Postal folks don’t take it on a month-long tour of the Southwest. They did that with one a couple of months ago.

It was only here a few days after it was finished. I’ve got some I’ll probably die with, and others that aren’t finished yet, but already have “dibs” called on them. I’ll miss this one. But only for a few days–I’m building a couple more just like it.

That’s it for now. Thanks for riding along. It’s 7:30 PM here on the Redneck Riviera, and I’m calling it a day.

From what’s left of America…

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1911 Black Cherry Basket

IN-STOCK. ONLY ONE AVAILABLE!

Right-Hand Carry.

Black Cherry 1911 leather OWB pancake holster for 5″ barrel.

Hand-stamped rope basket stamp with half-flower border.

15-degree muzzle-rear rake.

Belt slots to fit a dual-layer (lined) 1.5″ wide gunbelt 1/4″ thick.

Back panel left natural (no dye) to eliminate dye bleed due to perspiration and abrasion.

Heavy Black machine stitching.

Hand beveled, dyed, waxed and burnished edges and belt slots.

Detail molding on back panel for excellent weapon retention.

Cherry, Basket Stamped, OWB, pancake, leather, 1911, holster

Handmade in Florida, USA, with premium American-tanned Hermann Oak leather.

Satisfaction’s guaranteed, and questions are always welcome.  Just send an email to BruceGibson@aol.com or use our contact form.

This one is available on our other website. We’ll be adding it to the shop here soon. If you would like to buy it now, just click the link below:

GIBSON BLACK CHERRY BASKET 1911 RH OWB

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All in the details.

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You can click on the photo for a larger view in a new tab. This is stamping, as opposed to embossing. Each segment of the pattern is “set” as deeply as possible into the leather using a stamping tool and a maul.

“It’s all in the details,” is a pretty common statement, but it’s critical to making leather products one piece at a time. I thought I’d show a photo of a gun belt being hand-stamped with a basket stamp and half-flower border. This is the cleanest, longest-lasting way of putting a design on the leather.

There is another way I know of to do this. It is by embossing or pressing a design into damp leather using a press or a roller/wheel with an embossing machine. This is the mass-produced, inexpensive way of doing it. It also results in a fairly shallow imprint that is subject to fading away over time. It can be done quickly, whereas hand-stamping takes more setup, and much more time.

Embossing can be done in seconds. Stamping can take hours.

An embossing machine for straps or belts.

Here’s a video from Tandy Leather and George Hurst showing you some of how it’s done.