This is a discussion on Creaking Leather within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I dearly love my Crossbreed holsters, but one of them is driving me nuts. Every move I make sounds like a creaking old ship in ...
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I dearly love my Crossbreed holsters, but one of them is driving me nuts. Every move I make sounds like a creaking old ship in a 1940's pirate movie. I know there is a break in period, but this is ridiculous. A month now and no reduction in frequency or volume.
Kydex riveted on tanned horsehide. Rough side to the body, smooth facing the pistol.
Any thoughts on a leather treatment that will soften this up without harming the pistol?
"Give a man a fishk, an' 'e'll eat fer a day. Teachk 'im ta fight, an' 'e'll feast on da meaty marrow of hisk foes fer a lifetime!"
- Coxswain Ulrich
Try loosening your belt one notch etc. Sometimes things are just too tight and that causes the squeaking.
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Nope. Tried that. Still creaks and I look like the hunch-hip of Notre Dame.
"Give a man a fishk, an' 'e'll eat fer a day. Teachk 'im ta fight, an' 'e'll feast on da meaty marrow of hisk foes fer a lifetime!"
- Coxswain Ulrich
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Lots of suggestions in the link below. This topic has been discussed before.
Crossbreed Supertuck is CREAKING!
Neatsfoot oil. Saddle soap to clean, neatsfoot oil to soften. No squeaking anymore. I've been using it for baseball gloves, holsters, etc. for 60 years and my father and grandfather before me.
Last edited by RKflorida; September 20th, 2012 at 11:44 PM.
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I used Kiwi Leather Lotion on the horsehide (smooth side only). After a couple applications, silence!
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See those crosses on the clips? It's Divine Retribution... anything under your belt that might have committed sins lately?
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yepOriginally Posted by _Hawkeye_
I use Brommeland Max-Con V iwb leather holsters, a modified iwb Shark-tac kydex, and an X-Concealment kydex iwb, and none of them have ever creaked at all.
Kahn Souphanousinphone, Sr. "I could be manic, could be depressed. Real crapshoot."
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Well there ya go... instead of a free fix to your current problem you should go buy a new holster. /thread
(sarcasm off)
Crossbreeds creak, while others don't. What else do you want me to say?
Kahn Souphanousinphone, Sr. "I could be manic, could be depressed. Real crapshoot."
Well... I hate to say it, but if one product doesn't meet your needs why would an alternative choice not be a viable answer?
There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap - ballot - jury - ammo
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate, continued, and dishonest; but the myth: persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.”
-- John F. Kennedy
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Kholster creaks too.
So does Harwell.
Maybe it's the climate he/we live in that effects it? I'm in SW Florida (hot and humid all year)... so maybe that has something to do with it...
Or maybe they're just crappy holsters... but even so I'd rather put some baby powder on it for free than spend $100 on another holster that does exactly the same thing without the powder.
PS... I re-read my post above and didn't mean to come off like such a butthead. My apologies.
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