Some of my holsters

[karl]

Hi fellow leathercrafters, I hope these pictures come through. The one is a left handed crossdraw

holster that I made for a fellow and it is made out of 8-9oz leather, Unfortunately he didn't want

any pattern and wanted it a dark color for when he was hunting in the mountains.

The second holster is one I made for my 40 caliber automatic which I also built from scratch and

kind of happy with the way they both turned out.

The third is a kit holster I made and gunbelt for myself and also entered it in the County fair and

got a blue ribbon for it. Karl

[BruceGibson]

Nice work, Karl!

I'm only about 6-months behind, but I just got here last week! Gunleather is one of my passions, and I'm currently in the process of collecting "dummy" guns for molded ("moulded" for the more sophisticated among us) holsters.

The pancake models, as in your first picture on the left, are extremely popular. It's been my experience that the most common belt width is 1 1/2", and the the belts are generally doubled and stitched. My gunbelts hover around 1/4" in thickness with the dual layers. I'd humbly recommend that on pancake holsters you always make allowance for a 1/4" thick, 1-1/2" wide gunbelt. You can't go too far wrong. And go ahead and mould/mold your holster to accomodate that belt spec.

Good stuff, Karl! More pictures!!