So, you’re
making holsters, awesome! Now you’ve
made a holster you really like. You have
a design and a style and you want to make it again and again and again. The bad news is that you have to make it one
more time. The good news is that you’ll
never have to lay it out by hand again.
Here’s a
quick tip on how to replicate your design over and over again with a durable
template you can form yourself. First, mold
your holster. Then mold both the front
and back again over the first mold.
We’ll use a contrasting brown color for the template mold, but you can
use anything you have around for this process.
Layout your
holster design, drill your eyelet holes and finish out your edges with a
sander/grinder/dremel. Use eyelets in
the holes to maintain alignment while you work, just don’t set them. Do not polish your edges, leave them sharp
and square.
Place your
front panel in its corresponding over-mold.
Trace it out with a pencil and then clamp it in place and drill strait through
it to mark your eyelet holes.
Remove the
clamps and rough cut the template to shape.
Now, grind,
sand, file or dremel your template to exactly match your original holster
shape. You might want to take a little
extra off as your template tracing will add about 1/16” to the next holster.
Repeat this
with the back half of the holster. Don’t
bother with drilling holes or matching the outside profile exactly like the
front. All you need is the top profile
and a rough outside cut. Once you mate
the front and back, you can use the front template trace to drill holes and
determine the common edges.
Once you’re
done, mold another holster and here is what the system looks like.
Yep, this
works for taco style as well and you only need to over-mold one side depending
on your design.
So there you
have it. Durable templates for
repeatable projects. As always, you’ll
find the perfect holster when you do it yourself.
what type of paper u used?
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