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Never cared for tile floors for just that reason. Laid a few miles of it, never did enjoy it.
Wife likes the fake hardwood floor, it's nice to roll around on but I still like carpet.
Don't show the dirt near as bad. I can stop and not roll away depending on which way the floor is slanted.
Course we have no carpet now. She always wins.

I did drop one HI knife, my man cave has a concrete floor with very thin carpet. Near broke my heart, dinged the tip but I was able to straighten it out and bring it back to life. I still feel dumb to this day.
Maybe that's normal for me.
 
Bawanna said:
The body will mend and grow back, a dinged khukri is a disaster.
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Those words are immortal, unlike my foot :) I wonder if people who shoot themselves in the foot feel as lucky as we do when we catch a falling knife in the foot?
 
Bawanna said:
I did drop one HI knife, my man cave has a concrete floor with very thin carpet. Near broke my heart, dinged the tip but I was able to straighten it out and bring it back to life. I still feel dumb to this day.
Maybe that's normal for me.
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And your foot probably feels cowardly. Thus begins the quest for redemption. It will probably cost you an arm and a leg :D
 
kookery said:
And your foot probably feels cowardly. Thus begins the quest for redemption. It will probably cost you an arm and a leg :D
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I feel the same way, I had the impulse to almost hacky sack it to save it, but then I realized... yea no, my hands and arms have paid a blade price already. :P
 
Quick question for anyone while I was able to mention sheath stuff. I'll be hand crafting a new sheath as a project/experiment, is there a particular reason to using the wooden scabbard? I can easily make a small wooden scabbard then wrap the leather around it, but was considering skipping the wood. I wasn't sure if that would be a horrible idea? Perhaps the leather would soak up oil too much causing rust? Any opinions?
 
Lots of guys make their own leather sheaths.
Just need to make sure it's beefed up or reinforced enough on the sharp side that the knife don't cut it's way out.
I never store a knife or gun in a sheath or holster so soaking up the oil wouldn't be an issue for me.
Lots of guys make kydex rigs which would be super tough and wear resistant. I'm kind of an old school leather guy myself but I have no talent making anything with leather.
I've come to accept kydex for knife sheaths and some holsters, now I'm working on accepting Tupperware rifle stocks and gun frames. It's a skeery world these days.
 
Jamiel said:
Quick question for anyone while I was able to mention sheath stuff. I'll be hand crafting a new sheath as a project/experiment, is there a particular reason to using the wooden scabbard? I can easily make a small wooden scabbard then wrap the leather around it, but was considering skipping the wood. I wasn't sure if that would be a horrible idea? Perhaps the leather would soak up oil too much causing rust? Any opinions?
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I think it mostly depends on whether you're more comfortable working with leather or wood. I have a lot of experience with wood but almost none with leather. The main downside to an all-wood sheath is that you have to get the inside and throat measurements almost perfect or the knife will be too tight or too loose. Leather has more flexibility.

The typical HI sheath is two pieces of wood wrapped (and held together) by leather, which gives it that little bit of flex that a solid wood sheath doesn't have. Also the leather wraps around the mouth of the sheath and helps to "grab" the knife blade.

I have several solid wood sheaths, and while they look good, not one of them holds the knife as securely as a leather sheath or a traditional HI type sheath.
 
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davidf99 said:
I think it mostly depends on whether you're more comfortable working with leather or wood. I have a lot of experience with wood but almost none with leather. The main downside to an all-wood sheath is that you have to get the inside and throat measurements almost perfect or the knife will be too tight or too loose. Leather has more flexibility.

The typical HI sheath is two pieces of wood wrapped (and held together) by leather, which gives it that little bit of flex that a solid wood sheath doesn't have. Also the leather wraps around the mouth of the sheath and helps to "grab" the knife blade.

I have several solid wood sheaths, and while they look good, not one of them holds the knife as securely as a leather sheath or a traditional HI type sheath.
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Makes sense, I am probably going to make an all leather sheath for my second Khuk. It's hard to imagine now carrying my first around for heavy work but with any luck I'ma get this used one and use it hard :D....crap. Now i wonder if I should just make the nice sheath for my nice one.
 
I have been wanting to make a PVC pipe sheath. The one thing I don't like about Himalayan Imports sheaths is that the sheaths are almost as pokey as the blades themselves, with the pointy brass thing on the end. I had to take it off of my sheath to get it stop poking holes in stuff.

With sheaths, the worst thing that can happen is a car accident or some kind of fall or impact. If your knife ends up hanging out of your body, you will know your sheath wasn't quite good enough. They say you shouldn't run with scissors, in case you fall on it, but nobody ever said anything about running with gigantic limb-lopper kukris. So I guess it's OK :D
 
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