A friend used 'my' method (I didn't invent it) for restoring a pair of tired old holsters. One of them is the Hoyt shown as the 'before'...

I've deleted a bunch of blog posts that were (1) not getting the typical number of views and (2) contained no info that w/b missed by ent...

When misinformation, as below, about gunleather is more popular than correct information, and not just on forums but on FB, too, I realiz...

Regardless of how a dictionary perceives the word 'quality', it's a noun and its equivalent is 'characteristic'. One can use the word in...

We could go too far with that metaphor and so I'm not speaking of 'spine' or 'cover' even if there could be valid parallels. But "Ed McG...

Met a chap once, and he mentioned his Ruger 'Scout' rifle. "Oh, yes, Jeff Cooper's rifle", said I. "Who?", came the reply. How quickly...

We've all seen those forum posts, when an early 20th century Sears ad is posted showing what a Colt or Smith, or even a holster, was reta...

As a group we buy a lot of gunleather online, and often 'vintage', where all we have until the parcel arrives are its images. Often the ...

Or it could have been called, 'S.O.H' -- Save our Holster. There is quite a large difference between refinishing a holster, which is wha...

We know the story, about how fast draw came to be (not the stupid idea I'm talking about) and we know why the muzzle of the holster was t...

"Temper" is a word little-used by leathersmiths, although they are of course very aware of it in principle. From a tanner it means the r...

Let's go back to the beginning of Time for modern gunleather, which is the turn of the last century. As we know from our book "Holstory"...

I swiped this title from a Jeff Cooper article of 1946 titled 'what good is a pistol?' (it's a personal defense weapon, Jeff). And I tho...

Let's see if I can avoid making this too simplistic: the elemental styles of holsters, in alphabetical order. Always be aware that ther...

I've a request for a visual identification of the various elements of gunleather, and I think this is worthwhile. Respected books like P...

I'm an unabashed Republican and have voted that way from Nixon to today; and despite living in Australia, as a dual citizen I always vote...

That was the welcome to contestants of the '60s who played the game "What's My Line". We're, though, going to have a look at how gunlea...

I'm not speaking here about this blog, which is NOT a forum. I'm speaking from a decade of being one of the crowd on a half dozen forums...

I was mighty impressed with Andy Anderson's work, from the outset. I did a stint with my oldest brother in the Pacific Northwest while h...

An idealist like Nelson and our President, I devoted a couple of decades to ensuring the success and prosperity of the Bianchi Holsters C...