The first holster I ever made - one holster, two guns...

[Jim in Tucson]

This was the first leather holster I ever made. I called it "DoubleTrouble" . The guns are a Charter Undercover 38, and a Freedom Arms 4-shot 22Magnum minirevolver.

Construction is mostly obvious - two rectangles of leather, folded and drilled.

The concho on the lower right covers lacing that is threaded through all four layers, and forms the place where the barrel goes.  The one on the upper left covers lacing going through the top two layers, likewise forming the place the mini-revolver goes.

You might notice a leather strip with a hole in it for the mini-revolver's hammer.  That leather strip is internally connected to a piece of bungee cord that's holding the minirevolver down in there.  There was originally another such for the "main" gun but it turned out not to be necessary.

The belt loops were a couple of strips cut in the inner-most layer.  That loosened over time and to tension the whole thing down, I ran a loop of cord around the lower-right concho, forward and around the underside of the belt.  That helped hold everything tighter to the belt, and is in some ways an ancestor of the "torqued down" setup I'm doing now:

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,30439.0.html

Basically, this is one of a series of posts and pics I'm doing that says "we don't necessarily have to be "normal", or "traditional" (except staying within SASS rules as desired).  I am assuming most of the leathersmiths here are also building non-SASS/CAS stuff at least some of the time, and at least some of y'all are into CCW or street open carry laws allowing.