Makarov Holster with Carved Oak Leave and Bound Edge

[Wild Bill46]

Really Nice !

 

[AlZilla]

Well, I'm late to the party, but very nice work. The edge binding, the welt, all make a nice looking holster. Mostly, I haven't seen or heard of prototyping in foam sheet. I have got to try that out. I bet it's a much better stand in for leather than poster board.

Oh, and the oak leaves are worthy of envy, too ...

Edited June 24, 2023 by AlZilla

[Littlef]

15 hours ago, Wild Bill46 said:

Really Nice !

 

Thank you very much!

[Littlef]

5 hours ago, AlZilla said:

Well, I'm late to the party, but very nice work. The edge binding, the welt, all make a nice looking holster. Mostly, I haven't seen or heard of prototyping in foam sheet. I have got to try that out. I bet it's a much better stand in for leather than poster board.

Oh, and the oak leaves are worthy of envy, too ...

Thank you very much.  I appreciate that.  I put a lot of hours in trying to work out how to do the leaves.  The edge binding was a first time process for me as well.  The foam sheet works great.  I got that idea from Chakotay.  It folds and bends with a little stretch and a similar thickness to leather.  It gives you a much better idea of the final form and fit than just using paper, and its only a buck or two per sheet in a craft store.  I regularly tweak a design after using the foam, where I would have had a poorly fitting holster if I went straight to leather from paper.

[tsunkasapa]

Very nice. Oak leaves are my favorite to carve. I had one of those little pistols for a while. But due to a deformity caused by an injury, the slide would slice the knuckle of my thumb every shot. I sold it to a young lady with much smaller hands.

[Littlef]

34 minutes ago, tsunkasapa said:

Very nice. Oak leaves are my favorite to carve. I had one of those little pistols for a while. But due to a deformity caused by an injury, the slide would slice the knuckle of my thumb every shot. I sold it to a young lady with much smaller hands.

Thank you very much.   You certainly have less area to work with when soothing smaller pistols.