Heavy Heart in homemade concealex

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My first thermoset sheath. Used 3 layers of masking tape on the blade to set the blade retention and two stacked washers to make room for the back of the Sam Browne button and keep it away from the blade. Rides in a belt just right, although the concealex is a bit slick to hold the sheath in position when drawing the knife without the opposite hand holding the sheath. Still waiting on my eyelets to do the final contouring of the edge. BTW, the marks on the blade are from cutting down cardboard target backers (see following pics.)

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"Follow me to Certain Death" is a sticker on the back of my wheeling rig and sort of a joke since the truck has been rolled a couple of times and looks it.
 
Dude that's a sweet lookin' set-up you have there. The sheath looks great.

What handgun are you sporting?
 
Nice work. Did you follow an instructional thread? I'm looking to get started on a few sheaths in the near future, and could use any help you could throw this way.
Thanks.
 
Thanks Brother, I'm no stranger there either. I appreciate the heads up.
 
Thanks for the encouragement everybody!

The tutorial I used is here. I found it easier to heat the material in the oven on a cookie sheet for the initial press, then spot heat it with a heat gun for touch-ups. I used a 20 ton shop press in the back yard so I carried the hot concealex out to the press between two hot cookie sheets to keep it pliable.

Rick's right, the SIG is a P226R in .357 SIG. The AR15 is a POF piston operated upper mounted on their lower.
 
Your ordinance rules simply awesome set-up.
I could have done with out the PLO scarf.:grumpy:
Get a desert one like the SAS and SBS uses then we are talking;)

Cheers,

André
 
500jefferyDK said:
I could have done with out the PLO scarf.:grumpy:
Cheers,
André

Well, with a Busse, POF, and SIG, hopefully the PLO shemag is just one of a large collection, right? :) ;) :D
 
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