Attaching Firesteel To Your Sheath

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I am interested in how others are attaching their firesteels to their knife sheaths. Specifically:

- DIY mods to sheaths is what I am most interested in
- Commercial sheaths (kydex) that have firesteel option secondarily

Any pics and/or directions are greatly appreciated.

Example pic (not mine) of what I'd love to hear how to do:

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With chicago screws and nylon webbing, you can put a firesteel holder on anything with holes in it.

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Just size it to the firesteel.

The Warrior also used cable clamps from the hardware store to make a firesteel loop on a sheath before:

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The top picture was a home made fire steel holder made from kydex and screwed under the TDI clip.
Yep, that one's mine.
I'll take a better picture of it tomorrow that shows what I did.
 
Derek and Shadow, great ideas - Thanks! I had not thought of using nylon strapping and Chicago screws. I'll try out some of these on my bigger knives.

Acer, Look forward to seeing since i have a TDI clip on my BK14 and do want to add a firesteel. Really like how your setup looks on the same sheath/clip.

Charlie, Using the spine is the way to go. Having a coating on the blade (like most all the BKT knives) makes it harder to throw a spark, so you can strip the whole blade or just file away the coating on the striking area. Also helps to make the spine square/sharp to throw a better spark shower. I have also used the choil on some larger knives. I saw that Survive Knives now has a firesteel notch on the spine as an option. Supposed to give larger firesteel/spine contact area.
 
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One of our members, Godspeed, does kydex sheaths with optional fire steel attachments for any of the commercially available firesteel brands.
 
This worked ok for my BK2. Just use a legth of shock cord, which I allowed me to attach it to a pack and provide retention for the fire steel. I also used a little paracord loop and a spring clip to make it easy to take it off the sheath and serve as a secondary "safety" to keep it in place.

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Alternately, Godspeed, 710, and Azwelke can all make you something to your liking. Take this Godspeed rig, for instance. The firesteel rode inside of the pocuh.

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Here's the pictures of the stock sheath/TDI clip with kydex firesteel holder as promised.

I have my 14 in it now.



It's held between the TDI clip, and sheath with a small screw from the other side.



And here's how I've been carrying my 11 now.(picture upside down):confused:



Custom kydex carried horizontally on my belt in front with a tek lok, and cable clamps for the fire steel.
That's the same 11 pictured in the top picture, but the wooden scales were destroyed by a car(or truck) running my knife over when I lost it in a parking lot.:eek:
I had it hanging from my neck rather than clipped to my pocket, and unfortunately the sheath didn't have enough retention.
No more carrying on the neck for me.:(
 
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