Please take a look and tell me......

Gun Butcher · November 23, 2008, 08:28:47 PM

What would be the best way to put a strap on this holster? Should I go over the shoulder with a loop for the other arm or around the body??
I put this one together with a lot of scraps I had in an old box. The pouch is soft tanned buffalo and the back 4-5 oz, both are lined with buckskin. The top strap is a light latigo.

Anyhow jump in here with your opinion on the strapand give me some ideas.
Thanks, Gun Butcher

Ace Lungger · November 24, 2008, 07:40:37 PM

:)Howdy GB, I have had a lot of shoulder holsters that i have worn, not cowboy, and for me I realy havn't had many I have liked!
If you are going to wear it CAS, i think you could get buy with the waist strap, but it allways shows!
I wished I just could tell you what to do, but i think this is something you are going to have to decide what works for you!
ACE

Gun Butcher · November 24, 2008, 08:04:19 PM

Ace, thanks for the reply. I guess I could have made it a little easier to understand but lord knows I ain't much of a writer. What I was looking for was what stlye would be more authe..auht.. #%**% 'cowboy' .
If I did wear it at a shoot it would just be for looks anyhow.

GB

What I had in mind is the rig on pg.155 of Packin' Iron, but it doesn't show a strap.

knucklehead · November 24, 2008, 08:33:43 PM

the holster kinda looks like the shoulder holster in the al stohman how to make holsters book.
if you have that book look in there to get an idea on how to add the rest of the straps to it.

Ace Lungger · November 25, 2008, 07:53:17 AM

:)Very good suggestion knucklehead !!!And i will have to agree!!!!

GB. If you don't have that book,i can scan and send you the pic's to give you the idea of how he suggest to do it!

knucklehead, that was just super thinking on your part, That slipped right over my head! And that is why I love this place and think of everyone on here as my friend, because, not matter what you ask, someone if not a ton of people will help you figure something Out!!

Later ACE

knucklehead · November 25, 2008, 08:54:54 AM

Quote from: Ace Lungger on November 25, 2008, 07:53:17 AM
:)Very good suggestion knucklehead !!!And i will have to agree!!!!

GB. If you don't have that book,i can scan and send you the pic's to give you the idea of how he suggest to do it!

knucklehead, that was just super thinking on your part, That slipped right over my head! And that is why I love this place and think of everyone on here as my friend, because, not matter what you ask, someone if not a ton of people will help you figure something Out!!

Later ACE

it slipped passed me also till i was looking in my book for ideas on tooling a holster.
i dont have a scanner so thats why i didnt offer to scan it in.
i started a shoulder holster for a friend and needed some tooling ideas so i started digging through my books.
ended up winging it on stamping the holster cause everything we looked at didnt fit the holster design.
will post picture of work in progress

Irish Dave · November 25, 2008, 09:51:55 AM

In my experience the chest strap style was the earliest and most prevalent and certainly so until significantly later: From the upper left back (just below the shoulder) down across the back, under the right armpit and across the chest, reattaching on the front of the harness just above the pistol's backstrap.

There are examples of the Figure 8 or butterfly harness, but most of the earlier ones I see use the chest strap method enev though as was mentioned, it does show.

Gun Butcher · November 25, 2008, 06:38:14 PM

Knucklehead and Ace, I appreciate the ideas and I do have that book I will take a look see.

Irish Dave, I knew someone on here would know which style would be the most correct and now that I look at your avatar I see you are the man that would know. Thank you for your reply. I am going to get busy putiting a strap on this thing and call it done.

Gun Butcher

Sir Charles deMouton-Black · November 25, 2008, 11:59:29 PM

I've yet to try it , but why wouldn't a chest strap fit under the front of your vest?

The strap on my EPS "Hardin" uses a chicago screw high on the weak-side shoulder, over the strong side shoulder, and down to loop on your trouser belt at the strong-side hip.

Irish Dave · November 26, 2008, 10:15:13 AM

Thanks, GB. Hope I was able to help.

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Sir Charles:

It will go under the front of your vest on the right-hand side, the problem comes on the left.

The harness on your left shoulder typically lays over part of the left side of the vest. If you put the buckle for the chest strap on the harness where it belongs, the end of the chest strap ends up under the harness and the buckle.

I have been thinking about having a buttonhole added to my vests so that the strap could pass under the vest, out through the buttonhole, and then attach to the harness.