How to carry this neck knife?

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Clay1

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I have an extremely small collection of folders that I like: A couple of Benchmades, a couple of Emersons and a Microtech mini Socom Elite M/A. I thought I wanted a neck knife to go into the handful of knives that I have and bid on ebay a couple of times on a Ronin, I like the La Griffs, but when I saw the Benchmade 160 TK at $25, I had to bid. I bought this little fella at $26.50 and what a steal [steel] it was.

I open the box and cut open these two shoe strings with a couple of pieces of surgical tubing attached? I find the instructions and put the thing together. I put my arm through it and around my neck in a cross-chest type of carry. I reach for the knife and pull. The string just rotates around. I try a different approach and pull straight down. The shoestrings come out of the plastic pieces. I am left holding the knife in its sheath with strings dangling down. I just had this feeling that I would not look too intimidating to the bad guys like this. Help??????
 
26.00??? Nice score!!!

I say, screw the "shoestrings." Get a nice length of breakaway chain or just some 550 paracord. Tie it around it in a manner that is comfortable and functional for you, not what Benchmade says.

And hey, at 26.00, I think I'm gonna start doing some ebay searches...

Good luck!
 
with that sheath I think you can 'thumb' the sheath off of the knife instead of the good ol' YANK!!! may not 'solve' all your troubles, but it's another way to do things...

-John
 
Pitch the tube and tie the end of the strings in a knot.

You could also do para cord which is my preferred neck carry method.

Nice score on the blade!
 
Also, I'm not a knot guy, but there must be a knot that would work; strong enough not to fall off but also able to 'break away' if someone grabed it and tried to drag you around the block with it.

-John
 
In the short 1/2 day that I have owned this one, I agree with Midget and the shoestrings have to go. I have also discovered that I can thumb the sheath off to a point, but that still won't let it free of the sheath totally. Maybe a thumb and an appropriate neck tie. I think that the Ronin comes with break away bead chain covered with parachord. The parachord against the body is nicer than just the chain and the chain will still allow a break away option. Parachord is a useful defense/offense tool and I am not wrapping it around my neck for the bad guys without some kind of break away feature.

OK, just say that I have an appropriate piece of tether, what are some of the popular ways to lace this thing?
 
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