Making your own holster - current resources?

[PogoJack]

I am looking at making a couple of guide holsters. I know how to do basic leatherwork and so I am going to go the homemade route and save me a couple of hundred bucks.

Also, a couple of my guns are light bearing, so a customer holster would be needed anyways.

I know there have been templates or general how-tos in the past. What are you guys using nowadays?

I have made sheaths before and am proficient in tooling, stamping, riveting and stitching.

Probably more interested in sources of leather than anything.

Thanks in advance!

[ar15barrels]

I don't work in leather, but when I have worked in kydex, I cut the material oversized, tooled it directly against the gun and then trimmed off the excess at the end.

[Notpc]

This guy has a few ideas! Oh, and when I needed leather to make a few homemade "holster partners" type sweat shields for my kydex holsters, I found what I needed on Amazon.