tutorial on holster making

[ABC3]

Does anyone know if there is a tutorial on holster making on this forum. Any info. from pattern to machine sewing to dyeing to sealing. Anything at all.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Dwight]

What specifically are you looking for Tom, . . . might make the search & info a bit easier to find.

May God bless,

Dwight

[fishguy]

There is a sticky at the top of the "holster section"

[BillB]

Tom,

Under "Critique My Work" is a thread I started on a Slim Jim Holster I made. It includes a set of photos starting with the pistol from which I drew an outline of the pistol on a piece of paper. I then made a set of marks 1/2 inch from that outline around the barrel, finger guard etc that then became the pattern. This is a simple folder over pouch design that is the basis for many of the western style holsters. The belt loop is a simple piece of leather sew to the back prior to sewing the main seam where the folder over meet. To extend this pattern to the common western design with the integrate belt loop and leather behind the pouch you extend the top of the back side to form a second fold over that folds backwards thus forming the belt loop and the leather behind the holster. This flap is held to the holster pouch itself in a number of ways, e.g. a separate leather strap around the pouch through slots in the leather back and snapping behind everything. I hope this helps to get you started in doing your own patterns.

BillB