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.
On our next adventure we plan on making "Shane," from the 1953 movie filmed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This requires us to collect all available photos of Alan Ladd from the movie. Then with these photos we are able to increase the size so we are able to examine every detail on the leather and the construction. Our team of researchers is a collection of people that have collected Indian "Tufa" cast jewelry and buckles for more than 50 years, 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.
In the result of our research shows that the Shane concho was huge. Approximately 2 " tall and 3 wide. The buckle being even larger. Buckle and conchos were "Tufa" cast. This style of Indian construction requires the craftsman to carve their design into a smooth block of Tufa sandstone. And a flat second block secured to the first one. Then molten silver is poured into the mold. Once the metal cools it is removed from the mold and the final product will be flat on the back and rounded in the front. To get the concho or buckle to curve with the body, the Indian creators would hollow out a cotton wood stump, and then place the flat metal over the depression and use a rounded limb as a striker, this is to get the soft silver to take on the arched shape wanted.
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 all the Shane holster and belt buckle photos, including those that we got exclusively, is then placed in our architectural AutoCAD program. Then will be opened up a holster photo and provide us with a flat pattern in which to recreate the original.
The western style Shane holster is already on our site under the Historical button. Trust me when i say it wears comfortably and is lightning to draw from. An Indian stuntman named Rod Redwing, in the 1950's and fast draw coach for Hollywood designed this rig. Rod said that he actually purchased the conchos and buckle from a Indian selling jewelry along the trail.
Donna and myself greatly encourage you to come down over to our website and see for yourself the fine quality that we put into our products of fine gun leather. O yes and do not for get our Buckle and Jewelry section now, not to mention others from 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.
On our next adventure we plan on making "Shane," from the 1953 movie filmed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This requires us to collect all available photos of Alan Ladd from the movie. Then with these photos we are able to increase the size so we are able to examine every detail on the leather and the construction. Our team of researchers is a collection of people that have collected Indian "Tufa" cast jewelry and buckles for more than 50 years, 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.
In the result of our research shows that the Shane concho was huge. Approximately 2 " tall and 3 wide. The buckle being even larger. Buckle and conchos were "Tufa" cast. This style of Indian construction requires the craftsman to carve their design into a smooth block of Tufa sandstone. And a flat second block secured to the first one. Then molten silver is poured into the mold. Once the metal cools it is removed from the mold and the final product will be flat on the back and rounded in the front. To get the concho or buckle to curve with the body, the Indian creators would hollow out a cotton wood stump, and then place the flat metal over the depression and use a rounded limb as a striker, this is to get the soft silver to take on the arched shape wanted.
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 all the Shane holster and belt buckle photos, including those that we got exclusively, is then placed in our architectural AutoCAD program. Then will be opened up a holster photo and provide us with a flat pattern in which to recreate the original.
The western style Shane holster is already on our site under the Historical button. Trust me when i say it wears comfortably and is lightning to draw from. An Indian stuntman named Rod Redwing, in the 1950's and fast draw coach for Hollywood designed this rig. Rod said that he actually purchased the conchos and buckle from a Indian selling jewelry along the trail.
Donna and myself greatly encourage you to come down over to our website and see for yourself the fine quality that we put into our products of fine gun leather. O yes and do not for get our Buckle and Jewelry section now, not to mention others from historical rigs worn in the American West. Ride for the Brand.
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So head on down and check out our classic rigs, not to mention our buckles and jewelry down at Chisholm's Trail Leather an checkout our western gun holsters
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