A month back I hand stitched a web belt with leather billets. I hoped I get away with it if'n' I just sewed a few inches each sitting.
I thought I had managed it , but I have suffered pain in my hands in the last few weeks , the right hand the worst ,particularly in the palm between the first finger joint and second....
It is a dull ache and I can't complete a fist , also the left thumb joint at the palm.....
I had contemplated, making a holster for my new to me Mauser C96, sadly my hands hurt bad enough that if I tried I'd suffer weeks.
I may get bronc'y & headstrong and give hand sewing a go again one day, but it won't be soon...
meanwhile I commissioned a holster for C96 out of England.