I’m asked multiple times a day whether a M2 or M6 holster design can be created for a particular pistol & light combination. Yes, I can, but it’s not so simple. Read on…

Let’s say you have your favorite pistol, and put the latest light on it. You now have it outfitted exactly the way you want, and you want to carry it. Your community and your family should be safer now that you are better equipped to defend them. But for whatever reason, you cannot find the holster you need for it. Instead of buying an ill-fitting nylon holster, you search the Internet for a suitable holster. You found the Werkz M6 holster, and thought that the features fit your needs. The M6 provides a great feeling holster with adjustable retention, supports optics & tall sights & threaded barrels standard, provides a concealment claw, and has modular accessories so you can carry it the way you want. Looking at the availability, you then saw that the holster wasn’t available for your particular combination. So how do you get the M6 for your pistol?

Normal Holster Manufacturing

First, let’s step back to how holsters are made. Many manufacturers use pistol replicas to build their holsters. Werkz does this too for their custom holsters. It provides good quality and features for a huge variety of pistols (Werkz is currently at 220+) and lights (Werkz currently has over 80 lights & lasers). However, this method involves a bunch of individual hand work, for everything from preparing the mold to shaping the holster. It results in variation and slightly looser tolerances. It’s a great option, but we are unable to build the same type of holsters this way as we can with the M6.

The M6 Holster is Different

The M6 (and predecessor M-series holsters) is built in an entirely different manner. First, we must have the pistol and light on hand, both for design and for testing of each holster. We have an expanding library of pistols & accessories, but this requires that we buy the latest and greatest. We 3d scan the pistol and light combination using precision equipment. This scan is then brought into CAD where we bring 7 years of holster design experience (and counting!) into a space where we can precisely control the retention points, hole spacing and location, holster cut & shape, as well as hundreds of design details that you’ll never notice. Once we complete the design, we turn it into machine code (“CAM”), then cut our molds on our CNC machine. 2 molds are required for each holster design. We then build a test holster to make sure our mold design was correct. We then test (again, with the actual pistol). Occasionally, we have to repeat the design and mold cutting part of the process when we do not have the retention correct or if the pistol hangs up on a part of the holster. This process takes days, and due to other activities in the shop, may take longer than that.

The investment in time and materials required for M6 holsters is significant. Therefore, we must prioritize what we build. We maintain a list of our backlog / queue toward the bottom of the M6 page. This list changes from time to time, as we complete designs, add new designs to the queue, and as we rearrange based upon your feedback or our understanding of the market.

We need Your Feedback

The best way for us to know what you want is for you to tell us. We try to guess based upon our experience, but every time you tell us what you want, it helps us reassess our priorities. So here is what to do.

Whether or not your holster is listed on the M6 page, please do  let us know what you want. Please include pistol, light/laser/accessory, and whether you want it built ambidextrous or in a left or right hand configuration. (Left & Right hand configurations do not have accessory holes facing the body and have a tall sweat shield covering part of the slide.)

We Will Respond

We will respond one of 3 ways.

1. The design is coming up soon. We may or may not be able to give an ETA for the design, but the best way to know is to either call, email, or check back to the M6 page to see if the design is complete & listed. WE DO NOT accept pre-orders for products.
   
2. The design is on the list, but further down. We cannot provide an ETA for it. Due to the multitude of responsibilities in the shop, some months allow us to get 1-2 designs a week completed, some months we get no designs completed. The best advice is to watch the page and see if your desired combination continues rising up. As always, you may choose to purchase a custom holster which likely has your combination listed.
3. We cannot add your design to the list at this time. Due to the demands listed above, plus the large design queue we have, we cannot justify adding your desired combination to the list at this time. As always, you may choose to purchase a custom holster which likely has your combination listed.

Group Buys / Department Orders

Orders of 15 or more designs will be considered for quicker production. Larger order sizes offset our initial costs significantly enough to warrant moving up the queue. Even “less popular” or “oddball” combinations can be considered. So if you’re part of a forum for a particular pistol (Steyr comes to mind) and you all want a holster for a particular pistol and light, contact us to see if we can move forward with a design for you. Werkz has a long history of providing carry options for less popular pistols or lights.

So Please Let Us Know!

We need your feedback, so please let us know what you would like to see the M6 holster built for.

Email: products@werkz.com