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Kevin McGovern

Kevin McGovern

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You can sell a lot of drop point hunters if your brother lives in West Virginia and is a member of several hunting camps.
 
I live out in the boonies and everyone is either a farmer, hunter, or both. I'd say that is correct in South Carolina as well.
 
I honestly don't know. It is an affordable and very versatile knife, great for field dressing. The sixth knife I ever made (and the last one on my HF 1x30) I gave to my brother almost a year ago. Fast forward to deer season this year and he has taken 10 of the same style back to buddies that want them. We now have an agreement that for every 5 knives he sells, he gets one free to do with whatever he wants.

Here is the original

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Here is one on my bench now.
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Great tip, I can add one...If your brother is a finish carpenter working in a big city give him a free kiridashi :)
 
pleasanthill said:
Kevin, how do you like those Tek-lok belt loops?
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I really like them. Sheath making is not something I really dig. When I started out, I was just doing a taco style with the belt loop integrated on the back. With the tek-lok, I don't have to figure out if the user is right or left handed, or how they want to carry it. I know most makers will do a kydex sheath "set up for tek-lok". I offer to sell them the tek-lok at my cost, which is cheaper as i buy in bulk. Also, the screws that come with them are a little short in my opinion, so I like to swap them out for a little longer screw. Since I have a bag of like 100 of them, it's no big deal for me. I want the customer to be happy, and my buyers, although knife savvy are not high end collectors so they may not be familiar with the tek-lok system. It is a rock solid attachment, I will say that.
 
Hear is a tip. If your like me and live right on the Columbia river close to Canada in prime hunting area then develop a kick ass fillet knife. The fishers and hunters love them up here.
 
Thanks for the info. I was hesitant to buy some becaus of the price. I bought some of the cheap metal ones and have only used one and now I just make one out of kydex but it's a pain. Think I'll buy a few on my next order and see how it goes. What size screws do you buy since the ones they come with you think are too short. I'm using the thinner kydex. Sorry to hijack the post for a min but you had one in your pic and I've been anxious to find out from first hand experience.
 
JTknives said:
Hear is a tip. If your like me and live right on the Columbia river close to Canada in prime hunting area then develop a kick ass fillet knife. The fishers and hunters love them up here.
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You're so right JT. that's the other type I've been getting asked about a ton.
 
pleasanthill said:
Thanks for the info. I was hesitant to buy some becaus of the price. I bought some of the cheap metal ones and have only used one and now I just make one out of kydex but it's a pain. Think I'll buy a few on my next order and see how it goes. What size screws do you buy since the ones they come with you think are too short. I'm using the thinner kydex. Sorry to hijack the post for a min but you had one in your pic and I've been anxious to find out from first hand experience.
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No worries. The screw that come with the ones I order are 8-32 .25" long. I replace them with 8-32 .5" long. I bought a bag of them from AKS I believe. Some configurations come with longer screws I believe, but the longer ones I saw were silver, and I wanted black. For the record, I have made my own plain loops in the past and they worked out fine. The tek-lok just offers more versatility while I can make the sheath the same for every knife.
 
Give one to that annoying guy that can't shut up about his truck/rifle/socks/whatever. It'll get more exposure than on Instagram.
 
pleasanthill said:
Kevin, how do you like those Tek-lok belt loops?
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Tek-loks are the sh**. For real, they are by far the best way to attach a sheath to a belt. They look really complicated, but once you see how they operate, they're fast, easy, secure, adjustable, perfect. I have one that I use on like 3-4 sheath/knife combos. I just swap it onto the knife I carry that day. And all you have to do to use one is make two rivet holes in your sheath the right distance apart. That's it. You can then carry vertical, horizontal, diagonal, whatever. If only they weren't so expensive.
 
I hadn't thought about the fact you can swap them. I don't even use the break open feature usually. I just slide it on my belt. But it does work well when you need to remove it during the day. I get them for about $10 each shipped, but yeah they are spendy.
 
Def getting some on my next purchase. That's what I want verstatility. I also have a lot of military guys wanting to be able to cary in multiple positions and making kydex loops for each position is a real pain.
 
Kevin McGovern said:
No worries. The screw that come with the ones I order are 8-32 .25" long. I replace them with 8-32 .5" long. I bought a bag of them from AKS I believe. Some configurations come with longer screws I believe, but the longer ones I saw were silver, and I wanted black. For the record, I have made my own plain loops in the past and they worked out fine. The tek-lok just offers more versatility while I can make the sheath the same for every knife.
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This is what I do. The supplied screws are much to short. The threaded aluminum inserts can easly brake off if you use the shorter screws. The screw must go all the way through the insert. But That being said I love thoes tek-loks. That's how I do most of my sheaths, just eyelets spaced so the large loks can be placed an a few positions.
 
Def better than what I'm doing.

This loop is for wearing on the back horizontally. Works good leaving it on when on your side as it can use your thumb or index finger to push on it to help release the knife.


And this one is for wearing on the side which would need to be removed when wearing on the back.


This was like the third sheath I've ever made.
 
This is the third or fourth one I did. I made a slimmer loop than yours and only used one since its a taco style. You could do the same thing on a pancake sheath and if you spaced the holes vertically and horizontally the same, you could switch carry styles as well.
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