I Need Some Help With a K&M Match Safe...

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Mistwalker

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Some of you may have noticed that I tend to carry a K&M match safe a lot in the field. It always has matches and striker, and a small ceramic rod for edge touch up if I need it.

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But that's not the only reason I like it. It also has a decent 20mm compass. Now, I have a few compasses. I am fond of mirrored sighting compasses for several reasons. But I like the the 20mm compass as a back up, and quite frankly here in the gorges it does me as much good when it comes to any normally needed navigation.

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I have the sheaths for my work knives set up to carry the K&M match safe. I am trying to find another one, preferably one of the aluminum ones but brass would be fine, for the sheath I rigged up for my daughter. I am going to be working on a lot of things at once with her while we are out and about this year, and I'd really like to find another one of these. I tried contacting the folks at K&M with no luck. No response from emails and the phone is disconnected. If any of you know someone who has one of these match safes in stock I would appreciate the information.

Thanks,

Brian

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I have a few Brian. Please PM me with your current address and I'll get one mailed out for Alayna.

Phil
 
Looks neato. I would have imagined that that compass wasn't worth a spit.
 
Fiddleback said:
Looks neato. I would have imagined that that compass wasn't worth a spit.
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Not all 20mm compasses are created equally and some of them aren't worth spit. From what I've read Kieth and Marge Lunders tested every compass prior to assembly.

Also, another thing about K&M that a lot of people apparently don't know. I had a Silva maych safe with compass like this gifted to me once years ago. When I posted pictures of it several people mentioned how horrible it was for Silva to clone the K&M match safe like that. At that time K&M were using Silva compasses and they made a run of the aluminum compasses for Silva to sell with the Silva logo. It wasn't a clone. It looked just like a K&M because K&M made them.
 
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