Well. ok, I have an event coming up in less then a month, I need two holsters, and I have a very little budget. I've looked at buying one them, but there are no season 1-2 versions available, and the only season 3-4 I can get, is out of my price range for one, let along 2.
I've looked at making my own season 3-4 holsters, but I have very little leather working experience, and it could still be very, very, expensive, and still might not turn out.
I have (up until to day) avoided the idea of doing my own season 1-2 holster, because I have no way to vacuumforming (I've been trying to get my stark mask vacuumformed for years, and years.
). And I can't even get silicon, or resin, right now, for anything else I could come up with. However, today, I was over on Karl's Web, looking at his old cast holster, and I got to thinking. Now, I know, I konw, the once for the show really where vacuumformed, and I know that if I tried to make one out of something like resin, the thin parts where the rivets go would just snap off.
But, bear with me. I have limited time, and limited time, and I'm all about the cheep, hardware store builds. So, here is the idea I had today. Scalped the outer layers (the thicker parts) out of clay, mold them in something cheep like plaster of Paris (I know silicon would be better, but again, I'm on a budget, though I could do the "getto mold making thing.) Then make a casting, of that part in something like fiber glass, with the strips to reinforce it. Or, Bondo, with a wire mesh throughout, Or the same thing with 2 part epoxy (not something like JB Weld, but something cheaper, like that stuff you can get in a bucket. :lol) Then sand, cast, or other wise, creat curve in the back of this piece to ruffly fit the shape of the leg, then take something like sheet styrene, or some other strong, but flexible substance like it, to create the thinner lower level of the holster that gets riveted to the rubber part. Use hidden rivets, and epoxy, to affix the upper, and lower levels, And then just do the bottom layer, in rubber, like it should be, with the holster riveted on like it was for the show. (or should the part that goes against the leg, and wraps around, be leather.) The then parts that get riveted to the rubber part, would be the same styrene, that it would be if it was vacuumformed, so it would work much the same, but the upper, more complex shapes would be made of a harder material. (circumnavigating the need for vacuumforming.)
I know, it's not how they did it, and I know there is a lot of folks around here that would never use anything but the accurate techniques, and materials, but when your on a budget, and a deadline, sometimes you have to think out side the box. This could be done cheep, and kind of fast. I'm not saying this is the best way to do it, I'm just asking could this plan (or some version of it) work?
Oh, and if I do, do this, kylash327, can you tell me where to get the rubber for that bottom layer. (any tips as to how to cut it, etc. or any other holster tips, would be great.
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