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Eventually yes. I'm trying to drop some weight, so I need to get my waist where I want it before investing in making a gun belt. - But that's definitely a future plan.

Thank you sir. I appreciate it.

Finished a new project. - I saw Road Agent make this belt bag on YouTube. (Man, he makes cool stuff.) I did my best to copy it. I need to rework my pattern, its not quite symmetrical. Somehow, the right side is like 2 stitch lengths higher than the left. Also the flap needs to be about 1/4" longer. It was tough to sew the gusset in an arc, but I got it. I don't have a stitching pony, so I had to keep picking it up and setting it down. I got off on my stitching pattern a couple times, and I had to back up and redo some stitches. I think keeping it in a fixed position will resolve that. I'm gonna eventually make a couple more for different caliber pistols I own, so I'll have a chance to do some tweaking. Let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions.

Thats a good idea. Actually what I bought is white. At least thread is pretty cheap. I'll pick up some natural before starting my next project. Thanks!

yes, I can see it was getting dirty as I was working on the holster. It hasn't even left the work bench. Its picking up dye. I didn't cut the fiebings leather dye, I used it full strength. Next time I'll try to dilute it first. I think there's just too much dye in the leather.

Its tandy's WAXED NYLON THREAD. the package doesn't even have a size, but its big. I just bought a spool of t270 bonded nylon, and I'm doing some test stitches with it.

Thanks! lol, yea, I'm absolutely left handed.

Thank you very much! sounds fairly standard... for almost everything for left handers.

Thank you sir. All good tips. I appreciate it.

Here's my first attempt at a holster. It's for my 1943 Walter P38. I made the holster off an avenger pattern in Etsy for a Beretta 92 from Mazeleather. I found the single stack 9mm mag holster on Etsy from Adams Leather works. I flipped the patterns in photoshop to make them left handed, and I bumped over the stitch line to tighten it up. I think I might still add another stitch line from the muzzle back to the where the barrel meets the receiver. It's a little looser than I would prefer, and that appears to be where the slack is. Also, the stitching looks filthy. I did a topcoat in Resolene. When I did that, the leather bled out dye. I'll have to do some research on how to prevent that. I also think my stitching is a little sloppy, and I'll have to work on tightening that up. I attempted to tool in a German Iron Cross (-cause it was geometrically pretty simple.) I think it's acceptable for a first attempt at tooling leather. I don't own a stitching pony, but I can see how fast leather gets beat up, just picking it up and setting it down on the bench repeatedly. A stitching pony of some sort will probably be my next acquisition. All in all, I'm super happy how it turned out, and I can't wait to wear it out on the steel range. Let me know what you think. Let the flames begin!

Hello from Colorado, I decided to dip my foot in the leathercraft Pool. I mainly collect antique firearms. I picked up a Nepalese Kukri Knife from the 1800's. It did not have a sheath, so I decided to make one, in the same style in which the military would have issued. It has a wood interior, inletted with a space for the blade, and then the outside is wrapped in wet formed leather. I put together this slide show presentation of the process. I'm pretty happy with how it came out. My next project will probably be making a holster for one of my pistols.