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 of recreation is not a action done by someone laid back in their lazy boy recliner with a malt scotch. But someone who will go thousands of miles to visit the historical places in which these items were used and worn. Being personally able to see the pieces of art worn by the legends such as Geronimo, John Wesley Hardin and Wild Bill Hickok was pretty exciting.
Our next great venture is the recreation of "Shane," a 1953 movie filmed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The first process of this was to gather all photos of Alan Ladd from the movie as possible. Enlarging the size of these photos we were able to examine every aspect of the gun leather and construction. In our collection of researchers that include people that have collected Idian "Tufa" cast jewelry and buckles for more than 50 years and a foundry that has molded these items for Indians for the same amount 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.
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 the Shane holster and belt buckle photos, that only we have access to, are then put into our architectural AutoCAD program. That will open op the holster photos and provide us with a flat pattern 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 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 quest of recreation is not a action done by someone laid back in their lazy boy recliner with a malt scotch. But someone who will go thousands of miles to visit the historical places in which these items were used and worn. Being personally able to see the pieces of art worn by the legends such as Geronimo, John Wesley Hardin and Wild Bill Hickok was pretty exciting.
Our next great venture is the recreation of "Shane," a 1953 movie filmed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The first process of this was to gather all photos of Alan Ladd from the movie as possible. Enlarging the size of these photos we were able to examine every aspect of the gun leather and construction. In our collection of researchers that include people that have collected Idian "Tufa" cast jewelry and buckles for more than 50 years and a foundry that has molded these items for Indians for the same amount 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.
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 the Shane holster and belt buckle photos, that only we have access to, are then put into our architectural AutoCAD program. That will open op the holster photos and provide us with a flat pattern 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 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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