- Joined
- Jan 7, 2003
- Messages
- 2,373
This past week I had an idea for a sheath and wanted to test it out. Since the Mora 2000 is my daughters knife and the sheath has all the class of a melted length of PVC I decided to test my idea making her a sheath.
It is fairly simple, no real surprises. The seam has a welt stitched in and it connects to the belt with a simple reversed flap sewn in as a loop. I did inlet the stitches inside so the knife won't pick them up.
My idea? The knife is held in by tension alone and I wanted it to be a very positive fit. When the leather was wet formed and dry I smeared epoxy around the inside area where the fingerguard "ring" of the M2K made contact with the molded leather, wrapped the knife in saran wrap and clamped it in until it set. The result is a very positive "click" when it seats in the sheath, it feels and sounds like kydex.
It looks positively aweful in there, like someone smeared the leather with glue, but it worked well. I think the next time I try this I will use PC7 or something similar. In fact depending on how well this stuff wears I just might replace it on this sheath. My guess is that it will end up developing cracks with time.
The color turned out kind of odd. I should have stained the leather first but I was in a hurry as I wanted to use the knife.
I field tested it yesterday on a day hike and it worked great. Mac
It is fairly simple, no real surprises. The seam has a welt stitched in and it connects to the belt with a simple reversed flap sewn in as a loop. I did inlet the stitches inside so the knife won't pick them up.
My idea? The knife is held in by tension alone and I wanted it to be a very positive fit. When the leather was wet formed and dry I smeared epoxy around the inside area where the fingerguard "ring" of the M2K made contact with the molded leather, wrapped the knife in saran wrap and clamped it in until it set. The result is a very positive "click" when it seats in the sheath, it feels and sounds like kydex.
It looks positively aweful in there, like someone smeared the leather with glue, but it worked well. I think the next time I try this I will use PC7 or something similar. In fact depending on how well this stuff wears I just might replace it on this sheath. My guess is that it will end up developing cracks with time.
The color turned out kind of odd. I should have stained the leather first but I was in a hurry as I wanted to use the knife.
I field tested it yesterday on a day hike and it worked great. Mac