I love the unique contour of the slide on the Sig Sauer 1911, but it makes holster selection tricky. Blade-Tech makes their Stingray model for the gun, but most other makers aren’t supporting it yet.
That means custom work, so I contacted Tom Dyer, and as usual, he came up with an elegant setup.
I can’t abide putting nice guns in ugly holsters. Ugly guns, sure. Stick a Glock in whatever works, but my Smiths aren’t just tools, they’re my constant companions. I take a certain amount of pride in their workmanship and aesthetics, and they deserve the proper treatment, so to speak.
While there have been some marvelous improvements in holster design over the last century, but one of the most enduring was the brainchild of Lee Trimble and Tom Threepersons. Now simply called the Tom Threepersons design, it was first marketed in the 1920s by the famous S.D. Myres (now merged with El Paso).
You can keep your ugly carbon-fiber high-speed-low-drag tactical holsters. Leather has worked for five centuries of pistols, and it still works today.
This is another of Tom Dyer’s modified Tom Threepersons holsters. Essentially, it’s a cross between the Threepersons and the old Bucheimer Federal Man that we brainstormed together. (I’ve described it in detail here.)
All the design needs is a name. Something with an Old West resonance. If you feel so inspired, drop me a line.
Another great holster from Tom Dyer.
