Cowboy Holster

Here you can see I have cut one divider piece, and I’m marking the leather to cut a second one.  I will glue these two pieces of leather together to make a piece that is approximately as wide as the trigger guard on the gun.  Since I first wrote this article, I’ve come up with a much better method of making the backstrap.  I glue several pieces of leather together to get the thickness I desire, then I cut the backstrap to the desired shape with a miniature electric coping saw.