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 adventure is the making of Shane, the 1953 movie filmed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. First we gathered all available photos of Alan Ladd from the movie. We increased the size of all images and examined every aspect of the gun leather from size to construction. On our team of researchers include folks that have collected Indian Tufa cast jewelry and buckles for over 50 years and a foundry that has molded these items for Indians for the same length 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.
We noticed when researching the Shane concho that it itself is huge. Approximately 2 " tall and 3 wide. And the buckle is even larger. Both together were "Tufa" cast. This design of Indian origin is constructed by the craftsman to carve their design into a smooth black of Tufa sandstone. A flat second block is secured to the first one. Once that it is done the careful process of pouring molten silver into the mold takes place. Once the silver cools it is pulled out of the mold, flat on one side and rounded on the other. 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.
The silver concho and buckle were commonly attached to Western belts and holsters. Chisholm's Trail will be the first to recreate these in the same amount of detail and in the same method to date.
A composite of all Shane holster and belt photos, including those not available previously, is placed on an architectural AutoCAD program. Our modification will open up a holster photo and provide a flat pattern that recreates the original.
The Shane holster is actually on our website already under the Historical button. Trust me when i say that the holster wears comfortably and lightly draws. Rod Redwing, an Indian stuntmen in the 1950's and fast draw teacher 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.
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 adventure is the making of Shane, the 1953 movie filmed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. First we gathered all available photos of Alan Ladd from the movie. We increased the size of all images and examined every aspect of the gun leather from size to construction. On our team of researchers include folks that have collected Indian Tufa cast jewelry and buckles for over 50 years and a foundry that has molded these items for Indians for the same length 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.
We noticed when researching the Shane concho that it itself is huge. Approximately 2 " tall and 3 wide. And the buckle is even larger. Both together were "Tufa" cast. This design of Indian origin is constructed by the craftsman to carve their design into a smooth black of Tufa sandstone. A flat second block is secured to the first one. Once that it is done the careful process of pouring molten silver into the mold takes place. Once the silver cools it is pulled out of the mold, flat on one side and rounded on the other. 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.
The silver concho and buckle were commonly attached to Western belts and holsters. Chisholm's Trail will be the first to recreate these in the same amount of detail and in the same method to date.
A composite of all Shane holster and belt photos, including those not available previously, is placed on an architectural AutoCAD program. Our modification will open up a holster photo and provide a flat pattern that recreates the original.
The Shane holster is actually on our website already under the Historical button. Trust me when i say that the holster wears comfortably and lightly draws. Rod Redwing, an Indian stuntmen in the 1950's and fast draw teacher 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.
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