New copy of Buckhiemer Federal Man holster

[Yellowhousejake]

I just finished this for an article on holsters. It is a copy of a Federal Man holster I made for a H&R 732 I did not have a holster for. 8oz Herman Oak, Ritza 1mm thread, Saddle Tan dye. The suicide strap was an interesting feature on the early versions of this holster. It "looked" like a suicide strap but the snap was a rivet and the inside end was a thumb break. Allegedly, the bad guy would try to take your weapon by pulling on the strap but it would never let go. I didn't have such a rivet so I installed a pull the dot snap 180 degrees out.

An interesting Tom Threepersons design holster.

DAve

[DieselTech]

Looks great! Nice work. 

[PastorBob]

Clean work!  What publication?

[Yellowhousejake]

The Detective Gatzette, a print publication for https://snubnoir.com. I offered to do a series on old holsters. I will make a classic holster and use it for a few weeks reporting on what we learned over the years as applied to modern holsters, or what we left behind and shouldn't have.

Not sure if they will print it, we will see.

DAve

 

[TonyV]

I love it.  You executed well.   Yeah. Leave it to Tom Threepersons to design something like this. Simple, clean, highly functional and just a bit devious!

I think this concept would be simple to adapt to a basic revolver hoster.

[Yellowhousejake]

22 hours ago, TonyV said:

I love it.  You executed well.   Yeah. Leave it to Tom Threepersons to design something like this. Simple, clean, highly functional and just a bit devious!

I think this concept would be simple to adapt to a basic revolver hoster.

It was, the revolver I made it for was not the revolver the sample holster was made for. I bought a well worn out holster for a S&W M36 to tear apart. I had to lengthen the body 1 1/4" to fit the H&R. The biggest problem I faced, three tries to get it sized right, was leather compression. I disassembled the old holster and laid it flat for a tracing and it came out too small, twice! Looking closely I could see the outside of the leather was wrinkling up. The inside was not stretching out (originally it compressed) and the outside  was compressing. Once I realized what was going on, I added the thickness of the leather to each outside edge and then the holster came together.

The next one I am going to try is a Berns Martin front opening belt holster for a N frame S&W. If they like the article and want me to continue writing them.

DAve