Holsters

Been thinking again (not good for me) ref holsters. When I wore boots every day I used boot trees and wooden blanks to keep my field boots in shape after scrubbing them down. Would anyone be interested in wooden Luger blanks to keep a holster in shape? Made out of dry pine and painted/stained they would keep a holster in shape. Let me know and I'll cut out a few.


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[Thor]

Would be interesting to take an old Luger holster that was just about trash but had the proper shape and make a plaster of paris mold with it , then use a panagraph or something like that to copy it onto a wooden blank. That way you retain equal pressure on the inside. It would have to be something (wood?) that was compatible with the leather and would not make things worse from a chemical reaction with anything in the wood and anything in the leather. ~Thor~

Great idea but there are some alternatives that might be preferable. I use grocery bags (plastic) that haven't held substances that would damage the leather and place them in the holster to help shape the holster. The risk, though, among Americans (more is always better) is that you strain the weak stitching on your holster and pull apart the front and back from too much holster-stuffing. You can also damage the pull-up strap if you don't carefully avoid it when filling a holster.


On another note, I have used styrofoam to form holster body shapes and make reproduction leather parts. I have not made a lid yet but was able to make a decent body.


Dave

[Ron Wood]

I have used dry pine with a light stain for appearance as a "shoe tree" for my Ideal holster and am slowly shaping up one for my 1903 Swiss holster. I am not making it in the shape of a Luger, but rather the shape of the interior of the holster if it had a Luger in it (.i.e. block out the toe and trigger area of the holster and raise the frame rail area a little bit). These old guys need a little support after all those years. Now if I could just figure out what to do with my wrinkles.

[Thor]

I use bread bags a lot too! Thor

Ya'll getting too complicated. My idea was to cut out the shape of a luger with correct dimensions. What could be done reference your ideas is to take a new repro holster, pour it full of plaster of paris, then cut it open. Use this cast to make a mold which could be used to make the forms. This could be used to reshape a holster to origonal

dimensions.


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Right sounds like thats what they are saying, but how do you compensate for the lift strap?

Why not carefully place a luger in the corner of a plastic delivery bag, squeeze the top of the bag around a short tube or a sort, something that you can use to suck all of the air from the bag, making it closely conform to the shape of the gun, wrap it closely with thread and tie.

Place the luger in the holster and repeat the bagging of holster and gun within,as above.

Use dental plaster and coat one side of the homster with gun up to the largest point (usually the sewn joint.

alloy to dry spray the plaster at the joints with cooking "pam" or equal , wipe clean and coat the other side, when this dries the halves may be parted and the holster and gun can be removed.

At this point the moulds should be trimmed to the ends of the holster.

The holster may now be placed in one half of the moldon a thin sheet of plastic and covered with a thin sheet of plasticnow a thin plastic bag slightly larger than the holster be placed within the holster extending from both ends and blown up to fit the interior of the holster

Fill this with dental plaster and you will have a fair representative shape of the interior of the holster as if a gun were in it.

Have fun

ViggoG

You got it figured out, let me know how it works. Seriously, I might make this a project this summer. Another option would be an inflatable shaped air bag. Put it in, pump it up, and close the valve.


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