{"id":3247,"date":"2009-09-20T18:54:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T23:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2014-04-14T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:52:47","slug":"my-first-foray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"My first foray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>into Holster Making. <\/p>\n<p>I have looked around and have not been able to find a compact, form fitted holster for a Colt 380 Government model. Well, there are a very few but they&#8217;re megabucks. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s my first attempt. I had to buy a pair of punches but aside from that I have $4 invested in this. i have done some leatherwork in the past, and those skills are rusty, but they&#8217;re there.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image3246\" height=250 alt=mymustangholster.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/mymustangholster.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not bad. I had to use a pen to lay it out and there are still pen marks on it, but it&#8217;ll be dyed black and those will get covered. <\/p>\n<p>I still have the pattern, and if i like this enough I&#8217;ll get some Latigo  and do it again. I did the front in 8 ounce and the back in 10, so the back of this is almost flat. <\/p>\n<p>Update: The flap of leather standing is the piece for the thumb break, it&#8217;s just drying in place until I can get a  snap for it. <\/p>\n<p>Update update: For anyone that&#8217;s interested I found the info on holstermaking <a href=\"http:\/\/unblinkingeye.com\/Guns\/Holsters\/BH01\/bh01.html\">here,<\/a> accidentally, doing a search for a<a href=\"http:\/\/unblinkingeye.com\/Guns\/Holsters\/BH29\/bh29.html\"> 380 holster.<\/a>  When mine is done, I think it&#8217;ll look as good as his, almost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>into Holster Making. I have looked around and have not been able to find a compact, form fitted holster for a Colt 380 Government model. Well, there are a very few but they&#8217;re megabucks. Anyway, here&#8217;s my first attempt. I had to buy a pair of punches but aside from that I have $4 invested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}