TECH: Make a leather holder for your fuel sling!

Now, I am not the leather expert here but I have seen some pictures of holders and thought I should try one. I got all my supplies at Tandy Leather at a very reasonable price.

First off I cut a piece of leather 6 inches wide and 10 inches long. I punched some holes on the end for lacing (pics later) and the 2 holes top and bottom are for the straps to go over the top and bottom.




Here is a picture of the hole punch I bought to make the nice clean holes for the snaps and rivets.




Picture of the snaps I used. I think I should have downsized a little, but sometimes bigger is better.



Here is the end of the specific tool used to mushroom the inside of the snaps. Start gently at first then a little more force to get it to mushroom out to hold it during un-snapping.



Picture of the snaps in place



I decided to do a little tooling, so I selected a reasonable easy skull to tool and gave it a whirl. Not fancy, but it looks like a skull....



Finished skull



I then made the 1/2 inch wide straps for the top and bottom to hold it all together. att ach the opposite end of the snaps to these ends.



I then put it all together and laced up the ends nice and tight.



Here are the finished pics of it. There is one step i did not show but I made straps with belt buckles to go through the slits in the sling. Then it will go arpound the frame to hold it in place. Hope this helps anyone with a sling....

Nice work for not being an expert. I like the 2 tones of leather.

I like it. Usually, I just destroy leather. It looks like I could actually do this.

Looks awesome!

The only thing I would say is that I would make the bottom strap wider and rivet it in place. If only because if something happens, like a huge pothole, on the road you could lose the whole bottle. And nothing sounds worse then a bottle full of gasoline bouncing down the road.

looks great man, nice write up

Originally Posted by AlexDefcon

Looks awesome!

The only thing I would say is that I would make the bottom strap wider and rivet it in place. If only because if something happens, like a huge pothole, on the road you could lose the whole bottle. And nothing sounds worse then a bottle full of gasoline bouncing down the road.

It is in a bottle called a ''molotov'' you know.

C