Chisholms Trail Old West Leather is ran and owned by Alan and Donna Soellner. We are purely dedicated to recreating cowboy gun leather found in your most favorite old westerns, from the outlaws to the lawmen.
This is master work not just done sitting around, sipping on a malt scotch and laying back in a lazy boy. But requires of us to travel around and examine the places in which these items were used and worn. Just seeing the places and examining the rigs in which warn by legends such as Geronimo, John Wesley Hardin and Wild Bill Hickok was really exciting.
Our next great venture is the recreation of "Shane," a 1953 movie filmed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The first process of this was to gather all photos of Alan Ladd from the movie as possible. Enlarging the size of these photos we were able to examine every aspect of the gun leather and construction. In our collection of researchers that include people that have collected Idian "Tufa" cast jewelry and buckles for more than 50 years and a foundry that has molded these items for Indians for the same amount of time.
We have also found a source and new friend that was at the filming of the movie and who provided us with hundreds of photos taken during the movie that are not available anywhere else. We will be traveling to Jackson Hole and actually touring the movie location shortly.
The result of our study has revealed that the Shane concho is huge. It is approximately 2 " tall and 3 wide. The buckle is even larger. Both the buckle and conchos were Tufa cast. This kind of Indian construction requires the craftsman to carve his design into a smooth block of Tufa sandstone. A flat second block is secured to the first one. Molten silver is poured into the mold. After the metal cools it is separated and the final product will be flat on the back and rounded in the front. To get the concho or buckle to curve to the body, the Indians would hollow out a cotton wood stump, place the flat metal over the depression and use a rounded limb as a striker to get the soft silver to take on the arched shape desired.
These silver conchos and buckles were very commonly attached to Western belts and western holsters. The Chisholms Trail concho set and buckle will the closest one to the original ever made and the first one ever cast in the same method.
A collection of the Shane holster and belt buckle photos, that only we have access to, are then put into our architectural AutoCAD program. That will open op the holster photos and provide us with a flat pattern to recreate the original.
The western Shane holster is already on our web site under the Historical button. Trust me it wears comfortably and is lightning to draw from. Rod Redwing, an Indian stunt man in the 1950s and fast draw coach for Hollywood designed this rig. Rod said that he actually bought the conchos and buckle from some Indians selling jewelry along the trail.
Donna as well as myself encourage you to visit our website and see for yourself the quality and care we put into our Cowboy gun leather. Don't forget to look at our buckle and jewelry section with both reproduction of western movie buckles as well as historical rigs worn in the American West. Ride for the Brand. - 31499
This is master work not just done sitting around, sipping on a malt scotch and laying back in a lazy boy. But requires of us to travel around and examine the places in which these items were used and worn. Just seeing the places and examining the rigs in which warn by legends such as Geronimo, John Wesley Hardin and Wild Bill Hickok was really exciting.
Our next great venture is the recreation of "Shane," a 1953 movie filmed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The first process of this was to gather all photos of Alan Ladd from the movie as possible. Enlarging the size of these photos we were able to examine every aspect of the gun leather and construction. In our collection of researchers that include people that have collected Idian "Tufa" cast jewelry and buckles for more than 50 years and a foundry that has molded these items for Indians for the same amount of time.
We have also found a source and new friend that was at the filming of the movie and who provided us with hundreds of photos taken during the movie that are not available anywhere else. We will be traveling to Jackson Hole and actually touring the movie location shortly.
The result of our study has revealed that the Shane concho is huge. It is approximately 2 " tall and 3 wide. The buckle is even larger. Both the buckle and conchos were Tufa cast. This kind of Indian construction requires the craftsman to carve his design into a smooth block of Tufa sandstone. A flat second block is secured to the first one. Molten silver is poured into the mold. After the metal cools it is separated and the final product will be flat on the back and rounded in the front. To get the concho or buckle to curve to the body, the Indians would hollow out a cotton wood stump, place the flat metal over the depression and use a rounded limb as a striker to get the soft silver to take on the arched shape desired.
These silver conchos and buckles were very commonly attached to Western belts and western holsters. The Chisholms Trail concho set and buckle will the closest one to the original ever made and the first one ever cast in the same method.
A collection of the Shane holster and belt buckle photos, that only we have access to, are then put into our architectural AutoCAD program. That will open op the holster photos and provide us with a flat pattern to recreate the original.
The western Shane holster is already on our web site under the Historical button. Trust me it wears comfortably and is lightning to draw from. Rod Redwing, an Indian stunt man in the 1950s and fast draw coach for Hollywood designed this rig. Rod said that he actually bought the conchos and buckle from some Indians selling jewelry along the trail.
Donna as well as myself encourage you to visit our website and see for yourself the quality and care we put into our Cowboy gun leather. Don't forget to look at our buckle and jewelry section with both reproduction of western movie buckles as well as historical rigs worn in the American West. Ride for the Brand. - 31499
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