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As some may have seen in my earlier threads i'm a fur coat and no knickers guy ie i'll happily spend $600 on a blade but I find it difficult to spend $20 on a sheath.
Well my journey towards making decent sheaths has taken another baby step with this one for the SAR8. I wanted to try two things with this one.
1) Attach a strap for any number of uses yet to be determined
2) Do some camo on the sheath to make it look a bit more ninj.
I followed my previous method of cutting a plastic pipe in half vertically then putting these into a preheated (about 200 degrees) oven. I then quickly assembled my press. This consists of a phone book, two pieces of foam (cut from a camping mat), a spare kitchen cupboard door and me for weight.
Did the the press dance and then began to trim off the extra and drill the holes for the eyelets. I attached the webbing strap to the bottom piece and then attached the two halves together. Due to short eyelets I had to use cut down bolts (have no Chicago screws) to secure the sheath halves at the strap point.
So sheath built now to pimp it. Sanded it to ensure the paint would stick and that the shiny plastic wouldn't show through if I missed a bit with paint. I used some car paint I had lying about. Wrapped the sheath in a piece of netting then got funky with bits of twine and some tape. I also used sand to blot extra paint off and it had the bonus effect of giving a bit of added pattern when I brushed the sand that had stuck off.
Post pressing, drilling, eyelets and strap:
Sanded down ready for paint (you can see the bolts clearly here)
Front is halfway painted but a bit shiny
Here's some of the materials I used
A light spray of black to darken it and some sand to blot the extra
Tried a different pattern on the back
SAR8 and sheath from the back
SAR8 in it's new home, the camo surprised me and to me really works with the handle slabs.
Well my journey towards making decent sheaths has taken another baby step with this one for the SAR8. I wanted to try two things with this one.
1) Attach a strap for any number of uses yet to be determined
2) Do some camo on the sheath to make it look a bit more ninj.
I followed my previous method of cutting a plastic pipe in half vertically then putting these into a preheated (about 200 degrees) oven. I then quickly assembled my press. This consists of a phone book, two pieces of foam (cut from a camping mat), a spare kitchen cupboard door and me for weight.
Did the the press dance and then began to trim off the extra and drill the holes for the eyelets. I attached the webbing strap to the bottom piece and then attached the two halves together. Due to short eyelets I had to use cut down bolts (have no Chicago screws) to secure the sheath halves at the strap point.
So sheath built now to pimp it. Sanded it to ensure the paint would stick and that the shiny plastic wouldn't show through if I missed a bit with paint. I used some car paint I had lying about. Wrapped the sheath in a piece of netting then got funky with bits of twine and some tape. I also used sand to blot extra paint off and it had the bonus effect of giving a bit of added pattern when I brushed the sand that had stuck off.
Post pressing, drilling, eyelets and strap:
Sanded down ready for paint (you can see the bolts clearly here)
Front is halfway painted but a bit shiny
Here's some of the materials I used
A light spray of black to darken it and some sand to blot the extra
Tried a different pattern on the back
SAR8 and sheath from the back
SAR8 in it's new home, the camo surprised me and to me really works with the handle slabs.
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