Hey guys, not being satisfied with any off the around a dozen+ of the shelf holsters I’ve purchased (Im currently using a ripoffs BL-13FL w/ factory modified flashlight loop enlarged to .87” to fit my quark). I’m looking at having to pester my wife till she makes me a custom one.
We just ordered some ballastic nylon and she is going to make me a holster to my specs. I’m currently carrying my quark, a pair of trauma shears and my leatherman in the ripoffs but I think I may ask her to just make a flashlight/shears one first, Im not sure if I want to carry my MT on my persons anymore, I carry a go-bag as well so it might live in there from now on.
If any of you have done your own I’d love to see some pictures of how it turned out. I’m mostly interested in nylon but if you do leather feel free to show it off here too. Just looking for ideas how other people carry. I have a feeling I’m goin to have holsters for everything soon.
Here’s a loop type holster I made in - er, in 2011, I think. I do like this kind, as the torch can be drawn both quickly and quietly. As much as I do like velcro, at one point or another, I got sick of having to handle a velcro flap. Nothing against pouches with a flap, I just ordered two molle pouches for pistol magazines just for giggles, but really, having to listen to the “frrap!” every time is a bit unnerving to me.
Aw’ight, ’ere it is!
hand-stitched; made from an unused laptop pouch carrying strap; doubled for strength, and a sewn border improvised from one of those giveaway neck lanyards. Mighty sturdy! I made it for my L2r which I used to EDC at work, took me two days to make it.
… thinking about it, it might be just about time to pull my gold L2r out of retirement! :bigsmile:
Dude your hand stitching looks perfect, I’ve hand stitched a few things before and I know how hard it is (that’s why I bought holsters till I’ve just talked my wife into it).
I too don’t like my light holsters to have Velcro or any flaps or hold downs at all. I do however plan to make some closed bottom, “sheath” style ones, m ligt has gotten pretty scraped up in the side loop of my current BL-13 and I’ve always worried about the lens.
Other plans include a loop style holster for my SC-600, very minimalist like yours. I also am going to have her do a small belt-width pouch about 4-6” long to hold 2 or 4 rubber gloves. I wouldn’t mind learning how to do it use of but her sewing machine is really nice (and expensive) and its one of the few things in the house I’m not aloud to touch, she’s scared I’m gonna try to take it apart and mod it so she forbid me to touch it for any reason. I still plan to mod the built in 12v incan lighting with LED’s when she’s no looking.
I saw the glove pouch on “Combat Rescue” on NatGeo, the guy used 2 lengths of 2” webbing and 2 lengths of 1.5”, the 2” makes the belt loop (longwise) and the 1.5” makes the pouch (same orientation). You stitch one edge of the narrow piece to the top of one 2” piece and one edge of the other narrow strip to the bottom (and both ends) then stitch the long sides of the second 2” strip on the back for the belt loop and your done. Make sure the top flap is the outter one when you put it on. The overlap holds the gloves (or whatever else small/glove sized crap) in the pocket that is the bottom/inner layer so there’s no need for a way to fasten it.
Here are two I made today using a 1950 Singer Model 66 Sewing Machine. I used V69 thread with #18 needle. Material is 1 3/4 Mil Spec 4088 Nylon webbing. The small one is for a Fenix P2d, the other I made for my Fenix PD35. I rolled a piece of Kydex, cut in half lengthwise and stuffed inside for ease of removal to prevent hanging up on the interior seam, but you could use a piece of pvc pipe just as easily. All I did was take apart the crappy holster that came with the PD35 to use for reference. I have no prior sewing/upholstery/holster making experience. Using a sewing machine wasn’t nearly as difficult as it looked. Pretty much made it up as I went along, a little internet research and I was MYOG baby.
But for the record, I don’t “sew”. I Prefer to call it tactical fabric manipulation or Man Stitching :cowboy_hat_face:
Hi and welcome blacksheep1. You must be a natural with the sewing machine. Unless you can do trick photography the stitching looks perfect. Man stitching. Hmmm. Have to look into that one.
Oops! Forgot to mention the light tan stitching along the edges were already there, that’s how the webbing comes from the place I ordered it from. It looked kinda cool, so I left it. I used thread same color as the webbing, so It’s harder to see.
Thanks for the warm welcome!
