Chisholms Trail Old West Leather is a company owned and directed by Alan and Donna Soellner. Our company is fully dedicated to recreation of your favorite famous western movies and actual gear worn by famous outlaws and lawmen.
This quest does not take place from a deck of a Lazy Boy recliner with a single malt scotch. It requires thousands of miles of travel and a tremendous expense to actually go to the historical sites where these items were worn and used. Just to be allowed to personally examine rigs such as the ones worn by Geronimo, John Wesley Hardin, or Wild Bill Hickok are pretty 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.
During this time we made a source and a new friend that happen to be at the creation of the movie and was kind enough to provide us with hundreds of photos taken during the movie that are not available anywhere else. Soon we will be leaving to tour Jackson Hole where the movie was shot.
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.
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 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 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 and I encourage you to visit our web site and see for yourself our constantly increasing line of Cowboy gun leather. Dont forget to look over our Buckle and Jewelry button with both reproduction western movie buckles and many others from historical rigs worn in the American West. Ride for the brand.
This quest does not take place from a deck of a Lazy Boy recliner with a single malt scotch. It requires thousands of miles of travel and a tremendous expense to actually go to the historical sites where these items were worn and used. Just to be allowed to personally examine rigs such as the ones worn by Geronimo, John Wesley Hardin, or Wild Bill Hickok are pretty 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.
During this time we made a source and a new friend that happen to be at the creation of the movie and was kind enough to provide us with hundreds of photos taken during the movie that are not available anywhere else. Soon we will be leaving to tour Jackson Hole where the movie was shot.
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.
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 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 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 and I encourage you to visit our web site and see for yourself our constantly increasing line of Cowboy gun leather. Dont forget to look over our Buckle and Jewelry button with both reproduction western movie buckles and many others from historical rigs worn in the American West. Ride for the brand.
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