I believe alot in using what you have and appreciate it, though if you have left over $$$ that havent been spent on knives you can indulge then 
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Ive spent a bit of time playing with my BK2 and one of the next mods was to sort out the 'flop' of the nylon belt loop, originally i was thinking leather as a loop but then a friend on an Aussie forum let slip he had some material with kydex like properties ( :thumbup: insert lightbulb moment).
The patient with the current webbing loop attached with rivets (x3), materials and left over ESEE pouch hardware. Using the leatherman i pried the edges inwards and a final squeeze with some pliers made them 'squished' enough to push them through.
Test fit the female part of the ESEE hardware and if need be enlarge, as I did with a file. Im fitting them through the back of the sheath as I dont want to unwrap all that paracord.
Pushed through and removed, keep an eye on the washers there that were part of the rivets, i have a use for them (i lost the third one accross the garage floor).
Onto the material supplied by knifeknut (thanks mate), i read his original advice concerning how to heat it up so that you can work/ mould it.
Off to the oven and in no time at all it was soft, the beauty of this material is that it is forgiving as i placed it in the oven multiple times till i was happy with my shape (note the cool oven gloves
).
If i was to have a crack at this again i would place it onto the bench top to get it a little flatter, maybe step it also for the sheath.
Now with the loop formed i placed the webbing loop from the BK2 over it to see how much i would need to cut off the webbing.
As you can see i didn't have to cut too much and i did it in a way so that the position of the keeper for the handle didn't become too low otherwise it wouldn't work).
Drilled the material slowly after positioning the webbing and marking the holes with the BK2 (raaaaaaa)
Do you see who got carried away with making holes in the webbing with a soldering iron, awww well it wont affect anything (1 hole, 2 holes, three holes awwww F**K)
Now remember the washers that came off the sheath at the beginning, these will be used in conjunction with the two left over ESEE pouch screws.
They will be mounted in this order and also using the roofing screw rubbers again.
Remember that I couldnt be bothered unwrapping 4 metres of paracord so I have positioned the female part of the hardware underneath.
Almost there.
Assembling all the pieces of the puzzle and it should look like this, ERECT !
No more issues with my BK2 webbing being on the flop.
Only thing I want to do now is round the bottom edges of the loop material and smooth the edges and thats it I think my BK2 project maybe finished now .. hmmmmmmmmm.
.Ive spent a bit of time playing with my BK2 and one of the next mods was to sort out the 'flop' of the nylon belt loop, originally i was thinking leather as a loop but then a friend on an Aussie forum let slip he had some material with kydex like properties ( :thumbup: insert lightbulb moment).
The patient with the current webbing loop attached with rivets (x3), materials and left over ESEE pouch hardware. Using the leatherman i pried the edges inwards and a final squeeze with some pliers made them 'squished' enough to push them through.
Test fit the female part of the ESEE hardware and if need be enlarge, as I did with a file. Im fitting them through the back of the sheath as I dont want to unwrap all that paracord.
Pushed through and removed, keep an eye on the washers there that were part of the rivets, i have a use for them (i lost the third one accross the garage floor).
Onto the material supplied by knifeknut (thanks mate), i read his original advice concerning how to heat it up so that you can work/ mould it.
Off to the oven and in no time at all it was soft, the beauty of this material is that it is forgiving as i placed it in the oven multiple times till i was happy with my shape (note the cool oven gloves
).If i was to have a crack at this again i would place it onto the bench top to get it a little flatter, maybe step it also for the sheath.
Now with the loop formed i placed the webbing loop from the BK2 over it to see how much i would need to cut off the webbing.
As you can see i didn't have to cut too much and i did it in a way so that the position of the keeper for the handle didn't become too low otherwise it wouldn't work).
Drilled the material slowly after positioning the webbing and marking the holes with the BK2 (raaaaaaa)
Do you see who got carried away with making holes in the webbing with a soldering iron, awww well it wont affect anything (1 hole, 2 holes, three holes awwww F**K)
Now remember the washers that came off the sheath at the beginning, these will be used in conjunction with the two left over ESEE pouch screws.
They will be mounted in this order and also using the roofing screw rubbers again.
Remember that I couldnt be bothered unwrapping 4 metres of paracord so I have positioned the female part of the hardware underneath.
Almost there.
Assembling all the pieces of the puzzle and it should look like this, ERECT !
No more issues with my BK2 webbing being on the flop.
Only thing I want to do now is round the bottom edges of the loop material and smooth the edges and thats it I think my BK2 project maybe finished now .. hmmmmmmmmm.
