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Before&After Holster

All I can say is WOOOOW. You did a great job and should be very proud of that talent. Keep on saving them. Rick B

Jerry
Once again proof that you are the master. Exceptional work! Bill

Jerry: Does this holster belong to someone? Or is it for sale?

Jerry, once again a fantastic job. I would like to know what kind of special treatment you do on the external side of the leather, but I suppose it the
Master's secret...
Congratulations Jerry !
christian

Jerry, the magazine pouch was torn ! how did you repair it ???

Hi Christian,

He replaced the pouch with another one.

Jerry: Amazing work. Hard to believe it's the same holster!!

It is too mutch for me! EXELENT.
How you do it?

"WOW IS NOT THE WORD" AMAZING

Incredible.

Simply Incredible.

Jerry, you are truly a craftsman!:cheers:

Great job Jerry, An outstanding example of something, from next to nothing! Hard to believe the turn around... again, outstanding! Best to you, til...lat'r...GT

Gentlemen, Thank you all for your kind comments about my work. This holster came to me from George Anderson. With his assistance I was able to give it the facelift that was necessary to preserve it for another hundred years.
The only parts I had to change was the magazine pouch, salvaged from an original parts holster and a pull-up strap that I hand tie here in my shop. All of the other parts are the original holster.
The rest was simply a matter of cleaning up the leather parts, removing all the old thread and getting the magazine pouch to fit up properly. I used the proper size and color linen thread to stitch it up.

I thought the membership might enjoy seeing what can be done with a pretty distressed holster.

I was actuall pretty amazed myself at the transformation.
Thanks again, Jerry Burney

Jerry, I'm in awe of your skill. Leather is one of the most difficult materials to salvage and what you do is simply amazing. :cheers:

:D

Let me add to the sequence of enthusiast people.
Well done!!

Ciao,
Mauro

Jerry, WOW!
Two questions:
1. What is the approximate freight on such a job?
2. Have you considered going into medicine? (Cause if you could do for me what you did for that holster I could go after girls who at the moment consider me to be just a dirty old man!)

David, I like to know the price of everything. Just a failing of my human nature I suppose.
This was a job I tried to keep reasonable as I do for all my clients. Complete holster restoration such as this is not cheap and is mostly reserved for rare and valuble holsters. It does not pay to do it for your average 50 dollar beater.
This one was $185.00 Plus return shipping as I recall.
A holster in this condition it is essentially worth very little. Because of it's extreme rarity I value this 1910 unit marked Luger holster now matched to the same unit pistol at $500.00 The restoration added value to the holster itself and consequently, to the pistol as well forming a pair, that because of each other being joined, creates a higher value.
There is an interesting story the buyer told me I am sure he would not mind if I shared.
George Anderson came by this rare Cavalry holster. He remembered a member who had posted some time ago, years? the pistol from the same unit. He contacted Bill Drew and sure enough Bill still had this pistol. George was kind enough to sell Bill this holster. You can see the end result...Jerry Burney