Carbon Fiber Concept Pancakes
Every now and then, I’ve got to put together a radical concept model to test multiple ideas.
It got to the point that I didn’t really want to wear my old revolver pancake holsters anymore. The two that I had been wearing for a couple of years all the time didn’t even match each other. I originally wore them to test a couple of different ideas. Do you notice the pattern yet? Although they still looked remarkably nice, they no longer accurately represented my product line.
I’d been thinking about a couple of different options. Instead of the leather extending over the top of the cylinder, I wanted to see what the functionality would be like in a pancake that ended right at the top of the cylinder like on Red Racer. I’ve also wanted to do one with some kind of pretty radical overlay, not unlike the purple race-like holster that I made. I’ve been looking for an excuse to accent some holsters with carbon fiber cloth. And, I’ve been wanting to try out some new finishing products. So, I present my new pancake holsters:
These are carbon fiber inlaid, wingtip pancakes. They do match each other, and fit the guns well.
They pull the guns in tight and offer an amazing draw!
That was another thing that I wanted to prove with these, that I could make some very well-matched mirrored rigs.
And, they do cover up nicely with the requisite Hawaiian.
Even when I pull it snug against them.
That sure is a purdy shirt… and a couple of damn fine looking holsters!