I fabricated a combination of old but quality leather belts to function as a shoulder holster. I actually had a nice high quality duty shoulder holster back in the mid 80's. But when my wife wanted to start carrying her wheel gun after having used mine, I ended up using the old one as a template to make one for myself. And considering that the real good one's, like mine, were quite expensive, to say the least. So with 6 kids and a wife, buying another wasn't much of an option without taking food off the table.
I've constructed quite a few items, my own arrow fletching system, a shooting system that functions similar to a lead sled, tripod adapters, and what not. Now you've really got me thinking about, and remembering all the stuff I would fashion with just a little thought and ingenuity. I even take measurements and use a note pad sometimes to build a functional reproduction of what I needed by looking at a store model or one a friend had. Back when I was a kid like 10 or so, I came up with the idea to carry a length of rope with me every time I went varmint hunting to be used as a hanging rest from a tree limb.
That was how I did it back in those days, but I still continue to try and create this or that. I think there are more people with the natural skill set to design functional apparatus's that fill a particular nitch. It's a good thing as long as we don't get too crazy.
Speaking of getting too crazy, a friend of mine who was originally from the mid west wanted to build a couple of tree stands when I lived in Flagstaff, Az., which is not really the best place for such devices. We don't have food plots or other type of lands at all similar to the mid west, almost everything is giant public lands that probably account for more than half of the state. Sorry for the long elaborate summary. But anyway, he built his stands from PVC, and mind you, this guy was about 6' 2" and weighted probably 280 lbs, maybe more. To put it simply, fortunately landed on some soft pine needles, other wise he might not have survived.
GS