My Second Holster

[BConklin]

This one gave me lots of challenges - with both the designing and the execution.

I wanted a mag sheath that could piggyback on the holster - OR ride on my belt. Once I figured out a design I liked on paper I set about making it up.

Got the main seam stitched and the gun barely fit. Pulled all the hand stitches and put in a filler - then it didn't fit at all because the filler was too wide. So I pulled the stitches again, trimmed the filler and stitched it up again....then I didn't like the safety strap. I'd used a thinner leather and the color didn't match nicely so I pulled the stitches again, made new straps and stitched it up again. Then I cut the friggin hole for the Sam Browne post wrong - putting the little slot below the hole instead of above...No way was I gonna sew that main seam again so I just made the hole oblong and went with it.

After all was said and done this is what I came up with -

Edited January 30, 2011 by BConklin

[bigo5552000]

Very Nice

[dbusarow]

I agree, very nice.

Dan

[BConklin]

Thanks folks! Might try something in black next....

[gregintenn]

I like it a lot. I made a couple of holsters for Ruger 22s, and I had a hard time with the front sight. That stinking thing is tall! It's also shaped like a hawk's beak, and wants to hang on everything.

[BConklin]

I like it a lot. I made a couple of holsters for Ruger 22s, and I had a hard time with the front sight. That stinking thing is tall! It's also shaped like a hawk's beak, and wants to hang on everything.

It is tall for sure! You can see where the barrel sits in the holster and there's plenty of room between it and the fold. As for that hawk's beak, the front sight on mine has been modified. The sharp edges were rounded over so I had no problems with that. I'm thinking of offering these for sale in the future though so I'll have to figure out some way to deal with the chisel like front sights on the originals. Those things looks like they could split a holster in half in no time.

I was thinking of some sort of U shaped gaurd or track glued and stitched inside but I'm not sure what to make it out of.