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I'm curious as to how long the average person takes to make a holster?

Let's say a pancake holster, one color, no tooling or reinforcement/ decoration, or an Avenger with a reinforcement sans tooling or exotics.

I'm not talking about actual hands-on working time, but inclusive time of drying of dyes and finishes and the like- ready to ship.

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Usually takes me 7-10 days.

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a pancake from start to finish, no tooling 4 to 5 hours but I hand stitch everything. give or take 8 hours for the wet molding to completely dry but that time is not added into the labor.

someone with a sewing machine could probably cut my labor time in half.

the more elaborate the design and stitching requires more time.

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I made this set yesterday from scratch. Dying leather, cutting, sewing (machine), shaping, polishing, taking photos, eating and drinking coffe in the meantime... so all of it... started 9:15 and finished around 15:00... did some smaller things along the way... 250$... considering it was monday I think that's ok ;)

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it's for a smith&wesson 686, 4 inch, 357 magnum revolver, little pouch holds 6 bullets and the leather belt is 2 ply of premium vege tanned leather (same as the holster and the pouch), solid brass buckle and screws, waxed thread and what not...

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i started yesterday on a pancake for an xd-9.from scratch...7-8pm pattern made and cut...8-830 edged single edges and glued...830 to 9, sewed and finish edged...10-11, wetmolded and baked...11pm last night til today at 4pm, drying...4-410 agelus dip, 410-6 am tomorrow, drying...deliver to customer tomorrow at 9am...so 4 hours labor, 36 hours or so of dry time...$70 Law enforcement pricing...non LE, $90...using drum dyed leather, no embellishments

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With drying time for molding, oil, dye and finish total time is 3 days. Billable time 2-4 hours depending on the style.

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Usually, . . . make pattern, cut leather, and generally "create" the holster all in the same day, . . . finish up with wet molding.

No less than 24 hours later, . . . burnish edges, . . . do some nit picking adjustments, . . . finish up with dyeing the product.

No less than 24 hours later, . . . re-burnish as needed, . . . nit pick as needed, . . . apply first coat of final finish.

Depending on final finish, . . . re-coat if necessary, . . . something between 12 and 24 hours.

Final inspection, nit picking, . . . package it up, . . . out the door.

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I can start on a pancake in the morning...have it in the mail the next day.

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Straight through, on a no frills holster, 3-4 hours from start to drying. After drying, 15-30 min final polish and QC.

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about two to three days depending on speed of drying

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