Materials
Color & Tooling Options
The leathers, colors and hand tooled borders we build with.
The main body of every holster we make is crafted from Hermann Oak leather. Most colors begin with Hermann Oak’s drum-dyed hides. We finish three colors in our shop:
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Saddle Oil Finish starts with natural, undyed Hermann Oak leather. We apply saddle oil to bring out its warm color and natural character.
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Dark Oiled Chestnut starts with Hermann Oak’s drum-dyed Chestnut leather. We apply saddle oil to deepen it to a rich, dark chestnut.
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Mahogany is dyed in our shop with Fiebing’s Pro Dye, a product we continue to trust for its quality and results.
Using drum-dyed leather for most colors helps us keep production efficient and costs down. We continue to use Fiebing’s Pro Dye for our shop-dyed Mahogany.
Every hide has its own character. Natural variations in grain, texture, and color—and the way leather absorbs oil—can create lighter or darker areas in the finished piece.
Colors shown in our photos are approximate. Lighting, time of day, and your phone or computer screen settings can all affect how a color appears online.
Saddle Oil Finish and Dark Oiled Chestnut are oil finishes applied in our shop, not colors dyed in our shop. Dark Oiled Chestnut begins with Hermann Oak’s drum-dyed Chestnut leather.
Smooth Leather Colors
Saddle Oil Finish, Dark Oiled Chestnut, Chestnut, British Brown, Havana, Mahogany and Black. Hand dyed Hermann Oak leather, so shade can vary a little from piece to piece.
Genuine Water Buffalo Colors
Weathered Gray, Weathered Bomber Brown, Weathered Oxblood and Weathered Hunter Green. Each hide has its own grain and shading, so no two pieces look exactly alike.
Hand Tooling Options
Basket Weave, Extra Fancy Old West Border, Old West Border, Barbed Wire Border and Serpentine Border. Available on listings that offer tooling.
Colors shown are approximate. Screens and lighting change how leather looks online.