Snap?

[Dwight]

7 hours ago, Frodo said:

  looking for recommendations for a closure for a cell phone holster that will be used frequently

Magnet is not strong enough

post would scrape every thing

snaps wear out the leather

 

Suggestions?  

 

 

 

 

You might just wet mold that flap under your thumb, . . . mold it around the phone, . . .  tuck the little sucker down inside . . . be surprised how well it just might work.

See the one above ^^^^^^^

[Hardrada]

Either a Sam Browne stud with lining over the base as fredk suggested, or set the stud over a patch of leather that then will be stitched in place.

I've done both:

 

 

Magnets are indeed an option. There are stronger ones even without going all the way to rare earth magnets (which I'd advise against using on a phone case).

I wouldn't use snaps. I have a fabric phone case that uses a snap to close the belt loop and once I scratched my phone by pressing that snap closed whilst the phone was inside the case. The imprint of the snap went through the fabric: I wasn't happy.

[paloma]

for me,yes, magnet is strong enough.

https://tradisign.blogspot.com/2020/03/etui-telephone.html

https://goopics.net/a/4JI15W7O

these one

https://www.imagnetshop.com/fr/fermetures-magnetiques/fermeture-de-sac/

Edited June 16, 2020 by paloma

[chuck123wapati]

13 hours ago, Dwight said:

I long, long ago gave up screwing around with fasteners for cell phones.

Too easy to make this one, . . . works like a champ, . . . 7/8 oz leather, . . . metal belt snap on the back . . . held together with rivets.

This one holds a samsung note 8 with it's kinda rubber like case around it, . . . I wear it in/on the computer chair, . . . dinner table, . . . tractor, . . . zero turn, . . . quad, . . . Jeep . . . van . . . up & down ladders . . . never dropped a phone out of it yet . . . 

May God bless,

Dwight

I do something like this too. I use a 1/2" strap around the holder, kinda tight but not to tight to tuck the flap  into.

[Frodo]

4 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

I do something like this too. I use a 1/2" strap around the holder, kinda tight but not to tight to tuck the flap  into.

That brings back memories

The first thing in leather that i ever made was a taser holster  I used a belt and believe it or not 22LR cases for rivets

 

 

 

[fredk]

As we are sharing photos of our phone holsters, here's mine. About 18 - 20 months in daily use.

The area around the hole for the stud has softened over time. It could do with improving

 

[ASAuLTCases]

if you rivet the tab on inthe place a snap would go, with a small spacer, then take it out and slide the tab over and off when you want to, 

if you get what i mean