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Does anyone have some good ideas on lining kydex with leather?

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Does anyone have some good ideas on lining kydex with leather?

Well, after working with Kydex to make paintball marker holders, I'd say that if - IF - I were to line it with leather, I'd use the thinnest and most pliable leather you could find...say...pigskin splits [even economy]...and form the rough cut leather to the object FIRST and then bend the Kydex over the item [say a firearm] and then glue them together with a binary epoxy.

The Kydex will bend and mold to whatever you want [also dependent on thickness] but it gets "Holy crap!!!" hot with the heat gun...hot enough to burn the leather if trying to mold it inside it.

Here are the two holsters I made:

NSG Splatmaster pistol

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PMI 68 Magnum

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The Kydex is the .08 thickness and both used a good portion of each of the 12"x24" sheets I got for them.

On both holsters I used these belt clips

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