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.

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Tandy leather, here I come! Thanks for the write up!

nice

Great write up man! Im gonna have to give this one a whirl.

This is real cool, gotta make me one

I got my free cell from EC a while back and have been thinking of ideas to do this. The design in my head is real similar to this so I'm on the right track.

this is pretty cool but i'd want some way of locking it cause in may neighborhood the bottle would go missing real quick

very inspiring thanks

My attempt, I used rivets instead of buttons all around.

that black just looks sick with the red! i gotta make one of these.

Definitely cool and do-able. thanks!

might be a dumb question but what do you use to tool the skull in the first one??

Looks great. I gotta try that!