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kydex for nylon
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by sunshine:
Hi Sog lovers...just got a Seal 2000, great camp blade...Anyone have an old style factory nylon sheath they might trade for a new style factory kydex one??? </font>
i went through this for a while... loved the knife, hated the sheath... now i wouldn't have anything but kydex.
it;'s that good.
i too use my seal 2000 for hiking and camping... even occasionally for roo shooting (that's kangaroo shooting for those of you from the northern hemisphere
)and you will get used to the kydex.
use a haid dryer on the bit where the guard fits in. this will soften it slightly, and you can pull it out a bit to allow easier access to the knife. my wife couldn't physically pull the knife out of the sheath when i first got it... it was that tight, but the haid dryer trick works a treat.
to put it in perspective, i was recently in my local knife store, and saw the sog northwest ranger. being so impressed with my seal 2000, i was ready to pay the A$220 for it. the guy then produced the sheath, and it was an old nylon one... i asked him to check if they had a kydex one, but they didn't, so i said they could give me a call when they get them with kydex.
i really like kydex now, and wouldn't have nylon again if i could avoid it.
in short... use the kydex for a while, you'll probably grow to love it. if not, then there are plenty of places on the net where you can buy suitable Nylon sheaths for about US$20 - 30.
incidentally, how's the protective coating on your seal going? mine lasted about 3 weeks of use (including about a week of camping/spear fishing/cleaning fish) before it started to come off. Ron dealt with this wonderfully, offering to bead blast the knife, and to put a factory edge back on it, but i declined because of how long it would take to get to the USA and back.
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Hi Sunshine,
I understand person preferences. I can assure you though, that SOG upgraded our line of sheaths to Kydex for many highly beneficial reasons to meet consumer demands. For us, Kydex sheaths were more costly to manufacture, but we felt absorbing the increase in cost without raise the over knife price was the right decision to make for our customer. We still get a call once every couple of months, romanticizing this nylon sheath from the older days, and how they would like to carress it again.
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Ron Andersen
Consumer Services Manager
SOG Specialty Knives, Inc.
Website: www.sogknives.com
Email: ron@sogknives.com
I understand person preferences. I can assure you though, that SOG upgraded our line of sheaths to Kydex for many highly beneficial reasons to meet consumer demands. For us, Kydex sheaths were more costly to manufacture, but we felt absorbing the increase in cost without raise the over knife price was the right decision to make for our customer. We still get a call once every couple of months, romanticizing this nylon sheath from the older days, and how they would like to carress it again.
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Ron Andersen
Consumer Services Manager
SOG Specialty Knives, Inc.
Website: www.sogknives.com
Email: ron@sogknives.com