{"id":57124,"date":"2017-06-26T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrlentz.com\/?p=57124"},"modified":"2023-02-13T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:01:25","slug":"how-to-make-a-western-leather-holster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrlentz.com\/2017\/06\/how-to-make-a-western-leather-holster\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Western Leather Holster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Consider this a practical and quick how-to guide on how to make a western style leather holster. I have trimmed down all the steps to only those necessary to make this a simple and fast weekend project. I’ve written several other tutorials over the years, so if you like this one – you can see the others over here. <\/a>This is a fairly simple project and you will learn basic template skills, leather cutting, leather finishing, and stitching.<\/p>\n

There are many ways to make a western holster, certainly ones that are quite a bit more precise as what I’m about to show you. However I realized after going through a bunch of those long and detailed posts, it kinda took the fun out of making the holster and made it a bit stressful. So – what I’ve done here is kind of took the key points and made them into an easy to follow guide to setting up your template.<\/p>\n

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If you would like to see the current holsters I make in the shop, and possibly buy one for yourself – check out all holster options here.<\/p>\n

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First let’s start with the necessary tools for the job. Now assuming you are putting a gun in this holster…you might want to get your gun first. Mine’s a replica 1873 Cavalry Single Action Revolver, it’s a non-firing type, which makes this projects a bit, um safer perhaps?<\/p>\n

Basic tools needed from left to right:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n