Request For Belt Holster Pattern

[Steve75]

I too make my own patterns. I have made a holster from Al Stohlman's How to Make Holsters. My Dad ended up with the holster. I have made much more fun making patterns for my holsters and producing the holster from that pattern. I still look back at the How to Make Holsters book but merely for inspiration. Search the internet. Find a style you like and try to emulate, or put your own spin on it. It is much more fun and rewarding in my opinion.

[Campchair]

I too make my own patterns. I have made a holster from Al Stohlman's How to Make Holsters. My Dad ended up with the holster. I have made much more fun making patterns for my holsters and producing the holster from that pattern. I still look back at the How to Make Holsters book but merely for inspiration. Search the internet. Find a style you like and try to emulate, or put your own spin on it. It is much more fun and rewarding in my opinion.

Second that. Buy all the Stohlman books. They are worth every cent you spend, as they have tips, best methods, advice, and the like. They might be a tad dated, (CB radio case, and case for flash cubes... ), but the basic principles they outline are timeless. And, in his "How to Make Holsters" (or something like that..) he shows exactly how to lay out a holster pattern. This methodology is transferrable to knives, flashlight cases, mace carriers, ....anything.

And, buy all the manila file folders you can afford. Legal ones are best; overlap and tape together if your project is really BIG. I have several folks with office type operations that call me when they clean out their files. (Dr's, Dentists, county courthouses, and law offices,) The used ones with notes scribbled in and on them are just as good as new ones. I keep a stack about 3" thick all the time just for patterns.

[rejerome]

Go to YouTube and do a search for "richard black holster patterns". He has a couple videos that are pretty good for beginner holster designers.

Good luck.

[warrior193]

This is a really good video that shows you start to finish, how to measure and make a knife case. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZKxHdNIiP4

There are a number generous leatherworkers out there who do a great service in sharing what they've learned.

Thanks very much for the link JS, thats very informative for the tecniques required for my project. I will use this as a basis for my new pouch - but of course mine will have an additional loop on one side for the E11 - my present thoughts on that is to make it a continuous part of the front of the pouch, IE. stiching in a "ditch" or channel on one side of the pouch before the moulded front leather comes back out to form the loop for the flashlight. I think that this will make a neater job of it viewed from the front. Do you think that this will work?

I'm thinking of having a cover flap over the knife pouch only, leaving the flashlight loop open top and bottom.

If the loop for the mini tac is not tight enough to prevent it from slipping out the bottom of the loop, I could include a small flap of leather at the lower part of it, as on the bottom edge of a shotgun ammo belt.

Regards, Warrior193.

[warrior193]

Go to YouTube and do a search for "richard black holster patterns". He has a couple videos that are pretty good for beginner holster designers.

Good luck.

Thank you for the pointer Rex, I'll take a look at his videos.

Warrior193.

[JoeSnuffie]

What you're describing sounds like it will work. For new designs, I usually end up trying and failing at least once before I get it right.