Good Kydex idea?

[XwafflesX]

I thought it would be a pretty good idea, if someone who makes Kydex sheaths, if they were to make sheaths, that aren't molded to any specific knife, but they already had Rivets and were made to a generic knife-shape, then when someone bought them, they would heat it up, and mold it to the knife that they wanted. Please leave feedback on how you would change it, and/or constructive criticism. Thanks!

 

[rycen]

If you have to do most of the work yourself why not do it all? I think it would be very difficult to do without stretching the kydex if it was pre rivited.

 

[gckustomkydex]

While the riveting is the more difficult part that requires the tooling. You mould have to mold the kydex to a genergenergeneric shape the mold it again. I haven't had much success remolding kydex.

 

[sw0596]

I've tried reminding sections that already have rivets and it has always been FUBARed. Usually the kydex stretches around the rivet flanges.

 

[Mike Sastre]

There is no such thing as a simple generic "heat to fit" sheath that will work to make any kind of quality sheath for all the different knife shapes out there. Then what will you do about belt attachment? Not practical at all, or someone would already be doing them. You are much better off contacting someone who has experience working with kydex, or learning to do it yourself. It's not that hard to do providing you get the proper instruction.

 

[HeavyHanded]

As a product to pitch I have to agree with the general sentiment. That said, I have reheated and remolded a number of sheathes for knife and handgun with good results. I don't think most people would appreciate the tinkering needed to get good fit, retention, and a means of mounting.

 

[u812]

I have a RMD sheath here that I am not happy with.Tried to make it a little on the loose side to keep it from scratching the blade but it turned out to loose.I was thinking about reheating it to see if I could repress it.
If it works the generic sheath idea may be possible.I am thinking that there would be other problems,this sheath was originally molded and shaped to the RDM.If I was going to try to do it for another knife the top opening most likely would have to be reshaped to work with a different knives handle.There are tons of very little details that will fubar a sheath.I have trashed several just because I had it on the sander 1 second to long.That top opening is tricky to get just right for the handle that will be snapping into it.A little to much and it will catch the scale and not open the kydex to allow it to snap in,sand to much off and it will not have good retention.The only thing you would gain out of the generic sheath would be the eyelets all ready measured out and placed right(that can be a pain) and the basic shape finished.

 

[David Brown]

It will not work right and the eyelets will leave marks in your foam press that will transfer to the next sheath.
I have tried it a few time, well more than a few times.
When a customer has left a sheath/holster on their dash in the hot Arizona summer sun and the sheath/holster deforms, they always bring it to me and ask if I can fix it.
I try and try for several hours until I realize it would have saved me time and money to just make them a new sheath/holster and throw the old deformed one away.

The kydex will shift when you try to reshape it and move the eyelets around. It is more work to " fix" a damaged sheath/holster than to start fresh and make a new one.

tuning or fitting is no problem, but to do what you are talking about will not work.

I can appreciate the thought, and wish it would work.

 

[Kiah]

There actually is a guy that sells what you're thinking of. I think Mike's statement of "Not practical at all" pretty much sums it up though. If eyelets are a problem, one would be better off pressing first and just using chicago screws or hardware store rivets.