Does my BK2 factory sheath...

rustyshackelford

rustyshackelford

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Dull my blade? I heard something recently that the factory sheath dulls the blade every time you sheath/unsheath the knife.
What the heck yo?
 
Some do. Its a result of over engineering. The sheaths are glass filled nylon, which I'm guessing was done that way to make them hard use. Bomb proof, just like the knife. But since the material is so hard , it dulls the edge. Take a small file or finger nail board thing and run it in and out of the sheath a bunch of times to give the edge some clearance. No more dulling. Or you can just run the knife in and out and let it wear its own clearance, then just resharpen. Easy peasy


Edit to add: only way to tell if yours does it is sharpen the knife and sheath it. Is it duller? Then yes. Kabar has since fixed the problem and if you call them they will probably send you a non glass version.
 
Some photos fo ya'.

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Moose
 
clich said:
Some do. Its a result of over engineering. The sheaths are glass filled nylon, which I'm guessing was done that way to make them hard use. Bomb proof, just like the knife. But since the material is so hard , it dulls the edge. Take a small file or finger nail board thing and run it in and out of the sheath a bunch of times to give the edge some clearance. No more dulling. Or you can just run the knife in and out and let it wear its own clearance, then just resharpen. Easy peasy


Edit to add: only way to tell if yours does it is sharpen the knife and sheath it. Is it duller? Then yes. Kabar has since fixed the problem and if you call them they will probably send you a non glass version.
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How much are they?
 
I wrapped some 220 around a nail file and sanded the hell out of the first couple of inches. It worked. Moose's pics show why it did.
 
I sent them an email and told them I had a defective sheath (Half of the button at the top was missing/broken, and it had dulling issues), and they sent me a new one free of charge. The new one was glassless, and didn't have the dulling issue. However, I use both sheaths, and the original no longer really dulls the blade, so either way its no big deal.

Not sure they'd send you a new one just because of the dulling "issue", but its worth a call to find out.

Good luck man :).
 
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