I'm new to this forum, enjoying it, very informative.
Any ideas or info out there on a good supplier for a knife sheath to fit a BKT-7?
I live in Concord, CA. Several times a week when it's warm I go up to Mt. Diablo with my son for hikes, and we look for tarantulas & other cool critters, which means I do a little poking & digging each time: This knife is about as perfect a tool as I've seen for hiking/camping, etc., big enough that I don't have to carry a shovel, small enough to have on my belt if we run into a predator of some sort. But I have one really big complaint:
The nylon sheath I got with the knife just doesn't seem to be equal to the quality of the knife. (Nylon's thin, kydex insert came out & I glued it back in) I made a couple of knife sheaths when I was a teenager, and they were functional, and, well, uh, functional. (If you dimmed the lights and squinted real hard, you might think they looked ok.) Anyway, I'm a stay-at-home dad now, and I'm doing a lot of hiking & out-in-the-woods stuff with my son. I'd really like to have a better sheath for this knife than what came with it, and I really don't want to go through the cut & punch-lots-of-holes-through-thick-leather, and have-sore-fingers-for-a-week process of making a new sheath for it. I don't have the tools anymore anyway, and I'd rather hang out with the short dude than sweat over leather for hours.
Love this knife, and really enjoy this forum. Any input from you wise folks would be much appreciated . . .
thx - orca8589