Adding a safety Strap

[Bert03241]

I want to add a safety strap to a holster thats all ready made, and wondering whats the best way to do this. I can think of several ways to do this , but wondering if others have done this and how they did  it

Thanks for any help here

[JLSleather]

Guy might be able to use a hand awl and a curved (or short) needle to add on, but I found that 'clunky' and tedious. A guy could RIVET a strap to the holster, but I don't like rivet construction.  Generally, I either cut the holster apart, add the add-on, then resew the holster... or if that's not possible, I just don't take on the task.

 

[fredk]

Not exactly the same; I was once tasked with putting a retention strap on an already made up knife sheath. I couldn't take it apart to do it. 

I used double sided tape to hold the strap to the back side of the sheath. I put a thin wood block inside and punched sewing holes. I only needed about 4 each side of the length of the strap. I prefer not to make holes go across a strap. I cut down then curved a saddler needle into a semi-circle (I still have that one and use it) and sewed it. Extremely fiddly and annoying. After that was done I took the strap across the knife guard to almost the other side of the sheath on the front where I cut it to length and punched holes to take a Sam Brown button. The SB was a screw fitting. When it was fitted I glued a small piece of very thin leather over the screw head inside the sheath. For that I needed very long needle-nose pliers to get down into the sheath.    =   Job done

HTH

[chuck123wapati]

43 minutes ago, Bert03241 said:

I want to add a safety strap to a holster thats all ready made, and wondering whats the best way to do this. I can think of several ways to do this , but wondering if others have done this and how they did  it

Thanks for any help here

I've done a few but they were all different fixes depending on the holster shape. Show us a picture of what your talkin about.

[Dwight]

All holsters I've ever run across will have at least a short piece above the gun that keeps it from rubbing the flesh of the wearer.

Up near the top of that . . . around the hammer area . . . six stitches will hold a suicide strap with no problems.  Do them in a box pattern 2 down each side . . . one at the top . . . one at the bottom . . . 

Also all holster I've ever run across will have a place . . . usually just in front of . . . the trigger guard . . . where there is no weapon . . . but there is some room there between the front and back of the holster.

Find a wood piece you can shove in there . . . keep it tight . . . and punch the hole for the snap.  You then muscle in the male piece for the inside part of the snap . . . up thru the hole . . . and take that same piece of wood . . . covered this time with a piece of steel . . . shove it down tight so the snap part won't move . . . add the other part of the snap . . . punch it down . . . and hit it a couple extra times . . . and you can make that inside piece flat enough to look like skin on the inside of the holster.

Add the female part of the snap to the suicide strap . . . call your customer to come get his holster.

If you don't want to use a snap . . . use fredk's same principle to sew a round piece of leather that will allow you to first attach the male part of a snap . . . then sew it into place . . . after you have contact cemented in place.

A but tedious . . . but it works.  If he's a friend . . . good customer . . . no charge . . . 

May God bless,

Dwight

Edited April 1, 2023 by Dwight

[Bert03241]

Its the Robert E Lee IWB  that he now wants to wear it OWB and have the strap added.

Thanks for all the ideas

Edited April 1, 2023 by Bert03241

[JLSleather]

with that rig,. prolly easiest way to gitter dunn is a straight strap, with a line 24 snap on BOTH ends2 snaps, and 2 them little plastic protector thingies, and done.

 

[Bert03241]

1 hour ago, JLSleather said:

with that rig,. prolly easiest way to gitter dunn is a straight strap, with a line 24 snap on BOTH ends2 snaps, and 2 them little plastic protector thingies, and done.

 

plastic protector thingies, ??

[JLSleather]

28 minutes ago, Bert03241 said:

plastic protector thingies, ??

http://www.bluegunstore.com/clearplasticsnapprotector-line24size-1-1.aspx

You can plan the lining on a new holster so you don't need these, but these are a simple work-around for a retrofit

 

Edited April 1, 2023 by JLSleather

[Bert03241]

1 hour ago, JLSleather said:

http://www.bluegunstore.com/clearplasticsnapprotector-line24size-1-1.aspx

You can plan the lining on a new holster so you don't need these, but these are a simple work-around for a retrofit

 

Boy they don't give those things away do they