The creation of the holster
When I made a sketch of what this costume would look like, not only did it have a blaster pistol, but also a holster for it hanging from the belt, so now that my blaster pistol was finally finished, I wanted to make a holster for it out of real leather so that the costume would look exactly the same as I had originally intended it to look like.
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Now that the holster for my blaster pistol is finished, it fits very well with the look of both the blaster pistol and the costume, and I'm glad I had exactly enough leather for it too. Feel free to use any ideas from this tutorial, and good luck sewing your own blaster pistol holster.
Project details
Holster version - Custom.
Project duration - 1 day.
Costs spent - $0 USD.
Accidents - No more than none.
Thanks to
The poor animal that had to die to get its carcass turned into a holster.
Whoever threw away the leather for me to find it all for free.
Project details
Holster version - Custom.
Project duration - 1 day.
Costs spent - $0 USD.
Accidents - No more than none.
Thanks to
The poor animal that had to die to get its carcass turned into a holster.
Whoever threw away the leather for me to find it all for free.
Pages - 01
To make the holster, I used a piece of paper to predetermine
the shape of the holster.
the shape of the holster.
After some tinkering, I finally got the paper holster to the right shape.
At first I thought I didn't have enough leather to make the holster, but then I found an angle that the paper template fit right onto, only I had to move the belt attachment straps right next to the closing strap in order to make it work.
After I fortunately found a way to get enough leather for the holster, the excess leather was removed from it.
Using a hole punching tool, I made four holes on each of the belt attachment straps and one on the closing strap, then four lines were cut open between the holes of the belt attachment straps where the belt will be drawn through them.
Since most of my leather was acquired by the art of dumpster diving, the leather had become wet by rain and started to slightly mould, so I washed it and applied brown shoe polish on both sides of it to refresh the surfaces.
After having softened the leather in hot water, it was soft enough to sew through, so I sewed the ends together with a single line and reinforced the edges with a thicker seam.
All three ends were reinforced with a thick seam to prevent the holster from falling apart.
Having put the blaster pistol into the holster, I traced through the hole of the closing strap where the snap button should be placed.
Having only a few used female snap buttons at hand, I had to pry one apart from the back piece in order to use it again.
The snap buttons were attached to the holster using a fastening tool that came with the snap buttons.
A snap button top with a sun like symbol on it was used for the closing strap and can be seen in the next photo.
A snap button top with a sun like symbol on it was used for the closing strap and can be seen in the next photo.
This is what the holster looked like after it was finished, and the blaster pistol fits very well inside of it.