Leather Wand Holster DIY

Today we're going to learn how to make this leather wand holster, stay tuned. Now a while back I made this bad ass wand for my war mage, to see how I did that check out this video here. That being said I didn't have a place on the costume to hang his awesome wand, ENTER A WAND HOLSTER. Now since this holster is going to be part of like an overall costume I wanted it to match the design, luckily Middle Mist Red made this piece of art right here for me to go off of. Okay so to get started the first thing I did was make a paper template. To do this I just folded paper over the wand and creased the shape that I wanted with my nail. This way I could be sure the whole thing was actually going to fit the wand exactly how I wanted it to. Then I just used a ruler to make sure my cut was nice and straight. This left me with this triangular pocket here. Now again using my wand as a guide I marked where I wanted the holster to end for easy magical access. I also made sure those endings had kind of a nice flowy design so that when I cut them out everything looked kind of slick together. Also gave me kind of easy access to this little trigger portion here on the wand. I just thought it was kind of a cool touch. Okay so to make the pattern for this decorative piece of leather that's on the outside of the holster I folded up another piece of paper and lined up my first pattern along that fold so I can trace it and make sure everything would fit into place. Then I just sketched out the shape I was looking for. Happy with that I cut through both sides of that folded paper with an exacto knife to make sure it came out perfectly symmetrical. And lining both of these templates up over the wand I love the way that looked. That was already coming out pretty slick. At this point I also went ahead and planned out where I wanted each one of my rivets to go. Now again because this is going with a specific outfit I really wanted to match the color scheme that I was going for. To that end I decided to use this scrap piece of the blue chrome tan leather that I used to make my warm aged hood. This I just folded in half to keep it symmetrical and used my pattern to make my cuts. I then used my upper pattern to make my cuts on some 4 ounce leather getting it exactly into the shape I was looking for. And with that cut because it is like veg tan leather I did the standard kind of finishing stuff where I hit it with an edge beveler just to round off those edges and then my slicker to make sure it's not fibrous and that the edges actually lay down nice and smooth. Now since I already had the pattern that I made to actually make this cut out here I decided I could just reuse that to draw in my decorative pattern on top of. I then wet down my leather and used a pen to transfer those lines onto my leather. Happy with that layout I cut those lines with my swivel knife and used the ball end of a stylus to widen out those cuts. This just gives those lines nice depth while keeping them really delicate. I didn't want them to look too thick in this space here. And while the leather was still wet I folded it along the spine to give it it's proper shape. Since the veg tan is more rigid than the chrome tan if I didn't bend it into shape I was afraid it would cause it to flare out as that leather tries to fight it's way back to flat. Cool so once that dried out I just added some color to it by hitting it with some USMC black then sealing that in with some rosaline before finally using some silver metallic paint just to fill in those lines. And all shined up and ready that was looking slick I was happy with that. Okay so to stick these two pieces together I started by laying that upper pattern onto my blue chrome tan leather and then tracing around it lightly with a pencil. This is going to let me know where it's safe to add my contact adhesive. So I apply a liberal dose of that adhesive to those spaces as well as to the back of my upper. Then once they're just tacky I carefully bond those two pieces together. Okay from here I just went ahead and punched the rivet holes at the end of my upper pattern here as well as one in the back for my belt loop. Now before I put in those rivets and kind of finish this thing off I realized that these open ends here were going to be too weak. Just the leather by itself was going to be flimsy and I think it would bend and fold on me a lot and just not look finished. To fix this all I had to do was add some more contact adhesive about a half of an inch all around the edge. Then I folded those edges in to add strength and make a much more rounded finished look. Alright with that it is time to wrap this thing up. First I made a quick belt loop out of some leftover bit of strapping here. Then I locked it into place using some rapid rivets. I also proceeded to tack in the ends of this upper section just to add a little bit of extra strength and also because I like the look that looks pretty cool. Finally I used a prong hole punch all along the open edges and went in with some silver thread to lock them together. And for the stitch I just used a simple looping pattern. Going through the holes then looping around that outside edge to go back into the same holes. I did this twice per set of holes before moving on to the next. The finished look was this really cool rounded looping stitch. And there you have it ready for a Wizarding Duel. I really like how this came out I was kind of flying by the seat of my pants on this one but that looks slick I think that's neat. Now I hope you enjoyed this episode if you did why don't you hit me some of that like it love and do not forget to subscribe so you know when I release new content. In the meantime though, keep leveling up you.