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Originally Posted by Box
They are "authentic" leather holsters so they are not lined with metal or plastic inserts. The tennis ball keeps the mouth of the holsters open so it doesn't flatten out and take a set during storage.
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Box, If you take a squirt bottle and wet the holster down, not sopping wet but wet, then wrap your pistol in seran wrap and put it in the holster. when the moisture has got down into the fibers of the leather you can press the holster around you pistol. Let air dry completely, remove pistol and re-oil holster (I use pure neatsfoot oil). Holster will hold its shape to the pistol (unless you store it with stuff sitting on it).
The seran wrap keeps your pistol from getting any of the moisture on it. This will work if your holster is made out of veg-tan leather. Oil tan leather usually will not retain a shape.
I've built a number of SASS rigs and period holsters over the years. Also modern holsters.
added: Don't press down hard where your leather is tooled or it might lose some of its sharpness. An alternate method to not mess any of the tooling up is to just spray the inside of the holster. I preferred to have the pistol available when I made a holster so it could be molded to it during the build process. Alleviates having to try and set the holster to a gun after it has been oiled. If it has been heavily oiled the above method my not work.