Just my 2 cents most seem to be happy with the armor, the let down as Phil has said is the 3 piece lid, putting a two piece together can be tricky enough but a three piece, why oh why be that mean
Bit different to the size I have been making. The entire length 9 inches, across 5 inches, side thickness 1 inch and wall thickness 1/2 inch. Would be a bit hard to make a pouch to suit yours without having the binders in front of me, I couldn't be 100% they would fit. You may be better off finding a leather worker and get them to match one to your binders.
ATA do not do a separate ear bud (grey part) sounds more like an AM, contact details from armor makers are in the Getting Started section.
The hand armor you can use black rubber gloves and get some latex hand plates from either Karin or trooperbay
Hi there I do make them and holsters, if you can give me measurements of yours I will see if it with fit my binder pouch.
Mine can be seen here http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/25165-fs-imperial-binders-handcuffs/
No way I could have a brown box sitting there for 5 months, in saying that sometimes it's best to take your time, good luck with the build, we will be watching
You can put snaps behind your holster attachments, I use normal armor size snaps too, all of my holster interchange with my belts, I also like to remove the holster when on a non blaster troop, quicker than using Chicago screws
Sometimes the templates need resizing when you print for the different pipe sizing, we can only get 42mm here in Aus, from memory I just up scaled by a few %
Some nice template here
http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/23603-fs-evilboys-screen-accurate-td-belt-clips/
or
http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/10053-fs-thermal-detonator-belt-clips/
People build at different speeds, my armor took 6 months of waiting so I pretty much did all my research and ground work before it got here, from the start to the finish of the build and approval took me two weeks. Good luck with the build