I understand where you're coming from and I have squared the ends off before. My personal preference is to have the muzzle tucked up in just a little to help protect the muzzle and to have a smooth rounded leather edge on the backside that rides against my hip bone. Thanks for the input.
I use to stop the stitch groove at the stitching. I noticed a couple people on this forum that took the groove all the way around and I thought it looked pretty good that way. Since then I've done 3 holsters that way, it makes it easier to groove it like that and it adds that symmetrical look.
Thanks for the input Tac. I have used the dowel before for a sight channel and I tried it on this holster but I couldn't get the pistol to fit with the dowel, I made this holster a little to tight.
I did work the pistol in and several times with a wet sight channel to cut a groove into the leather and after that I burnished the sight channel. Now when I draw the pistol out it comes out with a clean sight.
I do agree with you that this style of holster is nice for large heavy pistols, it is comfortable and I can wear it all day and not notice it.
Thanks.
I'm sad to say that I don't carry this gun much. It's the gun I wear when out in the woods camping, exploring, etc...
This is a pretty heavy holster, I think this holster will out last the gun.
I decided to try a Derringer pocket holster. After many hours of searching the internet for different styles I landed on this style.
While I was at it I figured I might as well make a little hip holster that can be used for driving.
Next time I'll put a little more reverse cant in it.
Thanks Doc.
For being my first holster I was proud of it.
I've been lurking around these forums for a while mainly reading but I've decided it's time to start being a little more interactive. I've learned a lot from this forum so I figured I might as well contribute, at least with pics since I don't have much experience yet.
This was my second holster. It didn't come out looking a nice as the Kel-Tec but I was still new at holster making.
Looking back I can tell that the leather was to wet when I started to mold it. I've also learned to us larger radius on my holsters, they look a lot better.
This holster was a simple little slider holster I did one day while playing around with some ideas.
For the record I wanted the streak look that you see, it was done on purpose.