I finally got a copy of
Packing Iron.
It came in the mail yesterday. What a great resource!
I wish I had bought one sooner...
But it has caused me some consternation.
You see, I like the Slim Jim style holsters for my C&B revolvers, but I would like to pretty them up with stampings and carvings. As I was going through the book I noticed that during the period I'm interested in, mid 1860's to mid-late 1870's, the rigs were kinda plain. By that I mean very little stamping and what carving was done seemed like nothing more then basic outlines of the subject.
Hi-ebber, and day always be a hi-ebber, as the years advance up into the 1880's, there was a noticeable increase in stampings and the carvings became more "finished."
It's kinda like the long rifle era. It started with the transition period and evolved into the "Golden Age" of long rifles; plain to highly decorated.
Do you think anyone would care if I took some creative license in tooling my circa 1870 C&B rig?
