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Red Nichols "The Holstorian"
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Join date: Apr 30, 2020
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Red Nichols is the author with John Witty of the 2018 reference book titled "Holstory - Gunleather of the Twentieth Century", 2nd Ed copyright 2022. He served the gunleather industry itself from 1970 after joining Bianchi Holster as chief designer until 1990, and continued his design work from1990 with two dozen more makers as Nichols Innovation until retiring to Australia 2000. He fully retired as a gunleather designer/maker in 2020 on his 70th birthday. His most famous possession? He owns the famed "Berns-Martin" registered trademark of James Bond shoulder holster fame. Much more about Red Nichols' biography is at www.originaldirtyharryholster.com .
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Nov 12, 2025 ∙ 1 min
The Gunleather of Lone Wolf Gonzaullas
So I don't have to build it all again, go to this post of mine on coltforum.com . I like the forum there. https://www.coltforum.com/threads/the-spring-loaded-holsters-of-lone-wolf-gonzaullas-texas-ranger.422778/?post_id=3816890#post-3816890 MTG, he called himself, had many gunleather sets and the rest are on the Guns of Gonzaullas blog post later in this site page. These are the 'new and improved' images that the Texas Rangers Museum at Waco took especially for me and my book Holstory the...
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Nov 9, 2025 ∙ 2 min
WATCH THIS SPACE. Purchase Page is Now Optimised for Mobiles
T he 'Purchase' page at the top of the site is now optimised for mobiles. This cured the site's tendency to use the desktop design, BUT stacked the images in the mobile view. I realise that fully half my viewers use mobiles for this site, but DON'T DO IT :-). Holsterguys can't really be appreciated on a mobile because its images are merely sprinkled with text. "Holstory the Third Edition: Gunleather of the 20th Century West" that now includes the seminal gunleather innovations of the...
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Oct 26, 2025 ∙ 2 min
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." John E. Bianchi
That line is a quote from humorist Mark Twain, made during a time when such rumors were circulating about him. Over the last few years I have been receiving claims of the unlikely death of John Bianchi, most recently from my friend Gene DeSantis. Even the folks in the press and the industry whom I know to have a special relationship with my former boss, JB, could neither confirm nor deny. Not even the staffer at the current iteration of the Bianchi Leather company could or would tell me one...
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