Thumb Straps On Holsters

[PHIPPS CRAFTED LEATHER]

Thanks everyone, looks like a few people out there need the help.

[Mike Craw]

Yeah, I knew somebody would jump on with a source for metal stiffeners. Thanks katsass!

This is a holster and belt combo I did for a buddy at work. One of the guys asked him why he wanted me to put the Puerto Rican flag on it. My Tejano buddy Adrian certainly enjoyed that little joke...not.

Anyway, I build the holster and seat it cased, not wet, and do the molding. I mold the rear shirt guard/thumb break at the same time and bone the hell out of the area around the thumb safety in the on position until it fits into its own notch. I rough form the front strap and let the whole thing dry. Once dry, I set the thumbreak snap half (female) above the area where that safety sits and then stretch the front strap under there. Once I get that ring impression from the female half I set my awl on the tight side of the center of the circle and set the male half.

Adrian rides this rig on his Harley to work, and if it had loosened up any, I would have heard about it!

Mike

[Rayban]

Check these guys out for metal thumb breaks (and belt clips)....very economical.

http://www.jrmclips.com/

Edited December 18, 2010 by Rayban

[katsass]

Check these guys out for metal thumb breaks (and belt clips)....very economical.

http://www.jrmclips.com/

Thanks Rayban..........they look really good with a great selection. My only problem is that I won't live long enough to use anywhere near their minimum order for thumb breaks.

[Rayban]

Thanks Rayban..........they look really good with a great selection. My only problem is that I won't live long enough to use anywhere near their minimum order for thumb breaks.

Oh contrare....... I just ordered 10 of one clip, 10 of another, and 2 (two) thumb breaks....no problemo.

I'm not sure thumb breaks are good for a field/range/hiking kind of gun, so I just want to try one out to see how it turns out for me.

You'll pay a few pennies more ea....and I do mean pennies.....for a small order like mine....my order including shipping came to about $13.

Order by phone.

[katsass]

Oh contrare....... I just ordered 10 of one clip, 10 of another, and 2 (two) thumb breaks....no problemo.

I'm not sure thumb breaks are good for a field/range/hiking kind of gun, so I just want to try one out to see how it turns out for me.

You'll pay a few pennies more ea....and I do mean pennies.....for a small order like mine....my order including shipping came to about $13.

Order by phone.

Thanks again! That's good news. I have been playing with a competition holster for the 1911 that really needs a steel shank.........and they sure do have them. The holster is good, but needs a stand-off.....and they have more than enough to work with. I'll give them a call. Years ago almost everyone wanted a thumb break holster, but they seem to have fallen out of use around here. As I said, I've only made one in the last year or so. Mike

[Rayban]

Just got my order in from these guys, the clips are great and for only a fraction of the cost as I had been paying for them.

[Kok]

Hello Master. may i ask the correct or optimum length I should put on my thumb break strap? I referring to the corner rear edge of the slide to the tip of the backstrap wrapping itself onto the pistol's slide?