DieselDave
Super Moderator,
I have finally found a local guy that is very good with leather and only uses top quality leather. He specializes in building show quality rodeo harnesses. He only uses stainless for whatever hardware he needs and has a pretty quick turnaround. He uses a lot of harness leather, which I really like. He is not cheap by ant stretch but he is good. I want to have him build me a leather key chain/holster for my ARC AAA. I only want to do this once so I am soliciting ideas. I wasted $100 on 2 combo holsters from someone else before this guy got it right. This makes my new holster cost over $150 when you add my wasted R&D. I am guessing this key chain holster will cost $30-$40 but it will be very nice and last 10 years. If he makes several I could get the cost down. I am doing this because I plan to start carrying my ARC AAA LE and don't want it beat up.
My simple idea:
Take a flat piece of harness leather slightly larger than the AAA. Add a stainless solid loop at the top or a Berkley mini clip or gate clip. I like the solid stainless loop the best so far. Attach a pouch as small and tight as possible with a fold over snap top. I want the snap to cover enough of the light so that when unsnapped it exposes about 1/4 to 1/3 of the AAA. This will allow me to use the light while still in the pouch.
My other idea is to forego the flat piece of leather and just have him do the pouch with a loop.
I may really go for it and have the AAA on one side of the flat leather and my Mini UDT on the other.
Any ideas you could throw at me would be appreciated. I don't want to use a kydex or nylon holster for reasons unknown to me other than I just like leather.
My simple idea:
Take a flat piece of harness leather slightly larger than the AAA. Add a stainless solid loop at the top or a Berkley mini clip or gate clip. I like the solid stainless loop the best so far. Attach a pouch as small and tight as possible with a fold over snap top. I want the snap to cover enough of the light so that when unsnapped it exposes about 1/4 to 1/3 of the AAA. This will allow me to use the light while still in the pouch.
My other idea is to forego the flat piece of leather and just have him do the pouch with a loop.
I may really go for it and have the AAA on one side of the flat leather and my Mini UDT on the other.
Any ideas you could throw at me would be appreciated. I don't want to use a kydex or nylon holster for reasons unknown to me other than I just like leather.