Leather pattern making for shoulder holster straps, and tips to make patterns for armor and garments

[@glenspryszak6005]

THAT was a most useful and informative video on a great shortcut to individual sizing......... Best tip I've seen in a while.

[@bransonsgeneralstore]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sp_saff7075]

Good thing I did it the hard way first. I'm gonna really appreciate this method next project. Great content.

[@FatManLeather]

I never considered using masking tape and an old shirt to make a pattern for a specific person, Thanks for sharing your knowledge. In 12 years of making holsters I've never been asked to make a chest holster.

[@garyfitts4774]

Great idea, thanks for sharing

[@thatwillis]

Nice video. Super helpful. Like the masking tape idea. Gonna get someone at work to case me in masking tape now. 🤪

[@mikarahikka6967]

G'day from the Land of the Finns! Being biker and diabetic, carrying glucose meter, Maglite, Leatherman, bit set, smart phone and insulin pen. I have made one shoulder holster. Today I put search words o KZbin: diy shoulder holster. Never came to my mind to use shirt and duct tape to make pattern. This was very informative video, THANK YOU! =0)

[@bransonsgeneralstore]

I'm glad it helped!

[@Rick_Sanchez_C137_]

I tried doing this on the MMA dummy at the gym; they have politely asked me to not come back…. So if you need out of a long term gym contract, than this is the way…. Thanks for the great instructions on a difficult subject (making a DIY holster actually fit, unlike the sporting goods box store holsters)…

[@bbrachman]

If masking tape gets unruly, put it in the microwave for 30 seconds. It softens the adhesive a bit so you don't get tearing. Works especially well on older tape rolls. Adhesive progressively gets more aggressive as it ages.

[@bransonsgeneralstore]

Good advice! Thanks!

[@bbrachman]

@@bransonsgeneralstore Just passing on info from others on KZbin.

[@duaneruebush3540]

Where did you get the dummy?

[@bransonsgeneralstore]

It was given to me by someone who had it and didn't need it. I would have to look, but I think they are actually called tailor's forms.

[@duaneruebush3540]

@@bransonsgeneralstore thanks. I’ll see what I can find

[@JelMain]

The usual way uses cling film rather than the shirt!. Don't forget the raw material's flat, so compound curves need darts. The first stage is to rough it out in cheap fabric, tacking the darts together on the outside, the idea's to have a set of lines outlining the finished product on the fabric you can lay flat to copy onto paper, before deciding what you need to add in the way of hems and seams. That's then cut out and transferred to material

[@bransonsgeneralstore]

I have heard of people using plastic wrap or trash bags for the base to tape over. I use a shirt because I keep a bag of messed up or torn shirts that I am just planning on cutting up for rags anyway. And leather is not really a flat raw material. It was a three dimensional hide that has been flattened. Too many people treat it just like cloth and don't account for how it might stretch or can be shaped when wet. You may not need the same darts you would for cloth. A compound curve that is complicated with cloth could be as simple as wetting the leather and working it over a round object. Or it might stretch out of shape or twist if you didn't lay it out on the leather right. Hides generally stretch more parallel to the spine than they do perpendicular.

[@solomonsgtjustinl9724]

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[@karlnash7105]

I'm going to need a bigger Dummy ;-) 6'5", #265. LOL, Probably just use "original " dummy.