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07-05-2016, 08:42 PM | #21 |
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Nice job, great you took your time and the result is impressive- now a nice holster.
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07-05-2016, 09:21 PM | #22 |
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Eugene,
Reach around and give yourself a pat on the back for this one! Very nice results, and I'm particularly surprised how clean the stitching seems to have come.
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That blue polymer pick is just one of a batch of cheap tools I 'picked' up off Amazon. I knew using a metal scraping tool would be risky to the leather and perhaps tear into the surface of the leather, so I went with hard polymer. That picker worked in tight spots. Most of the paint was removed with that bigger tool. Quote:
Yes, I got lucky on the stitching. I am glad the nincompoop that spray painted the holster did not use black shoe polish or other staining product on the stitching, or it might have been a sadly different outcome. Perhaps with my work restoring this holster I will have earned a boy scout Luger badge or promotion from Luger Forum newbie ...to rookie second class now. LOL
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07-05-2016, 10:20 PM | #24 |
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07-05-2016, 10:26 PM | #25 |
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Makes you wonder - Some members have reported their RC/VoPo Lugers coated with an almost tar-like finish...Maybe this holster was coated with the same finish???
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