Basketweave, Border, or Fishscale Stamping?

[roo_ster]

Considering another holster+belt+ammo carrier rig.  This time for my full-sized all-steel 1911.


Likely will run with El Paso Saddlery again.  All black leather.  Thinking of running with some sort of stamping.  (All my current gear is smooth or boned.) 

I was wondering what the APS collective wisdom and aesthetic sense would prefer: basketweave, border, or fish scale?

Bigger photo: http://www.epsaddlery.com/images/Product/large/182.jpg


Tortilla Holster
http://www.epsaddlery.com/pc-72-20-77-tortilla-holster.aspx



Garrison Belt
http://www.epsaddlery.com/pc-93-32-75-garrison-belt.aspx
With nickel buckle and lining to make it double-thick.



Friction Mag Pouch
http://www.epsaddlery.com/pc-124-59-friction-mag-pouch-2fd.aspx

[dogmush]

Personally I hate stamping and would stick with boned.  But if you must: Border.

Basket weave and Fishscale both look (to my eye) like Paul Blart's duty gear.

[Hawkmoon]

I've never seen fishscale stamping. All the PDs around here require basketweave.

I prefer plain. If that's not possible. border stamping is tolerable.

[cordex]

I agree with the above. Less stamping is better to my eye.

[Ben]

I'm with them three guys above me. I much prefer plain, but if I had to choose between the three examples, it would be the border.

If somebody told me that I had to make a gun/holster combo look snazzy, I would look to a plain holster and putting fancy (but practical) grips on the pistol. I think that has better eye appeal, and if I decide I don't want to be fancy anymore, I can easily swap grips. Once the holster is stamped, you're done.

[Andiron]

Border is sharp looking.  Less is more, IMO when tooling leather.

[BobR]

I would say it depends on how and when you expect to wear it. If it is a daily wear, or frequent wear I would go with the border, it looks good. For occasional social gatherings I would go full tilt with the fish scale, not as common as basket weave. I had a complete Ranger style holster/belt/horizontal mag pouch made and it is mostly basket weave that I wear for social occasions.

bob

eta crappy picture. This is a basket weave with a scalloped (?) border. Interesting note is the metal parts are engraved by residents of the DOC in Texas and the moneys raised goes into a welfare fund for families of Texas Rangers injured/killed on the job. At least that is what he told me.



bob

[Perd Hapley]

Basketweave, Border, or Fishscale Stamping?

No. Enough with all this Southwestern cowboy flair. It straddles the border (no pun intended) between tacky and downright flamboyant. Be a man. Eschew the pretties.

[BobR]

No. Enough with all this Southwestern cowboy flair. It straddles the border (no pun intended) between tacky and downright flamboyant. Be a man. Eschew the pretties.

But...but...some of us may have actually grown up as cowboys, you know the whole bull riding rodeo cow tossing deal. It may seem normal to us and we wonder why someone would want to be plain like those folks from the midwest.   :)


bob

[Perd Hapley]

But...but...some of us may have actually grown up as cowboys, you know the whole bull riding rodeo cow tossing deal. It may seem normal to us and we wonder why someone would want to be plain like those folks from the midwest.   :)


bob

Then wear your turquoise with pride.

[roo_ster]

No. Enough with all this Southwestern cowboy flair. It straddles the border (no pun intended) between tacky and downright flamboyant. Be a man. Eschew the pretties.

And I though mere stamping was showing decent midwestern rectitude.  I was going to let my wife run with the floral carving:
http://www.epsaddlery.com/c-44-floral-carving.aspx

With dyed background:


But the whole "go plain carry gear and purty grips" is something to ponder.

[charby]

I like basket weave, but it screams 1980's Bianchi cop commando.

Most of my leather holsters are plain brown halter leather.

[Perd Hapley]

That mag pouch - has it snaps, or are the loops stitched down? That's an awfully low price.

[roo_ster]

That mag pouch - has it snaps, or are the loops stitched down? That's an awfully low price.

No snaps and no stitches.  It is a folded-leather thingy made from one piece of leather secured with 4 rivets and a tension screw. 

Here is an image of someone else's rig showing the back side:


The back side of mine is the same, except not so large a center blind female screw dealie and the the blind female screw dealie on mine is made from brass not white metal.  Mine is superior (IMO, and likely newer design).

In use large aperture requires a 1.75" wide belt and the small a 1.5" wide belt to both work and not be sloppy.  Also, if using a 1.5" or slimmer belt, run it in the side, over the maker's mark, and back out the side.  I did not appreciate this at first, but it makes it pretty solid for both 1.5 and 1.75 wide belts.  (A previous review of mine had faulted it for use with a 1.5" wide belt.)  Also, takes up less real estate on your belt line than most double mag pouches and is thinner than most.  Maybe not so good for gun games, but better for toting with a CCW.

Other double mag pouches:
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1670&bih=768&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=double+mag+pouch+leather&oq=double+mag+pouch+leather&gs_l=img.3..0i8i30.172654.173676.0.173775.8.7.0.0.0.0.182.704.5j2.7.0....0...1c.1.64.img..1.7.702.l3VFp0K_DYU

I also did not appreciate it had no stitches until you asked.  A rather elegant design, now that I take the time to examine it. 

[roo_ster]

Oh, and all youse anti-stamping folk have convinced me.  Smooth leather, but fancy grips.

I am liking these:


Polished black buffalo horn and abalone inlay.

[mtnbkr]

Between the first three options you posted, border stamping or plain.  However, I'm a sucker for floral carving.

Chris

[Hawkmoon]

But...but...some of us may have actually grown up as cowboys, you know the whole bull riding rodeo cow tossing deal. It may seem normal to us and we wonder why someone would want to be plain like those folks from the midwest.   :)

Hey --

Plain worked just fine for Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and Paladin (with the chess man, of course)

[charby]

Between the first three options you posted, border stamping or plain.  However, I'm a sucker for floral carving.

Chris

Me too, if I every decide to get a BBQ gun, the holster and belt will be floral to match the engravings.

[T.O.M.]

Add a vote for border.  Don't know why,  but the others make me think "cheap" when I see them. But, I also like the we border style of engraving on handguns as well.  Blued with wood grips, of course.

[230RN]

Some nice lookin' cowhide, thar.

Likely will run with El Paso Saddlery again.  All black leather.  Thinking of running with some sort of stamping.  (All my current gear is smooth or boned.)

Pardon my iggerance, but searching "boned leather" did not help. What is that?

At first I thought it was a misprint and OP had used it instead of "bordered," but someone further down the thread used "boned" the same way, and differentiated it from "bordered."

I've made a couple of utility-stopgap holsters and some other things out of leather, but was never really into leathersmithing, so forgive my dumbity.

Terry

[Perd Hapley]

Boned is like so:




Has the leather carefully pressed in with a tool, for a tight fit.

[230RN]

Ah!  Thank you!

Makes sense, after all.  I actually have one like that (Kydex) which I don't use because it takes a fork lift to get the gun out of it.  Came with the gun.

[freakazoid]

Went to another SASS shoot yesterday and someone had a basket weave holster, I liked it. Mine has an oak leaf pattern. Got it from here, http://www.indiancreekleatherco.com/IndianCreek_holsters-western.html