Outdoor knife - not very tactical :D

[jester]

You know the situation: Waking up in a tiny tent at 2.30 a.m. because of some noise from outside the tent.
Calming the wife / kids / girlfriend : "No problem, I will check this!"
("But first i need to find my knife. Where the heck is it???")

So i came up with something i wanted to try out for some time:

ATS34, 10 " long, 0.2 " thick, flat grind, 59 HRC, P800 satin finish, and the special feature: glow in the dark dots in the linen-micarta handle.
Fully loaded they glow for 4-5 hours i would say. Never took the time. The glow-powder i used is estimated to glow for +10 hours or so, but i think some of the light is consumed by the epoxy.

On the weekend i managed to finish the sheath for it.

Nice outdoor knife, i think, but probably not very tactical...

In normal lighting conditions:

Much dimmer conditions:

The sheath:

 

[Burchtree]

Very, very nice!! Love the sheath, and great job on the pics too.

 

[Mr.BadExample]

Pretty cool idea! Looks good too.

 

[Sean O'Hare]

Hey that's a cool idea!

That's a hell of a sheath too! Do you have a pic of the other side of the sheath?

Sean

 

[Andrew Lynch]

OK--that's really sweet. Tritium would be even cooler

From one sheath-maker to another, that sheath is really top-notch. Just fantastic.

 

[Temper]

I love it!

 

[Ebbtide]

That is very cool.

I do have one question though...
How do you get your wife to agree with bringing your girlfriend along?


Then again, I think I know the why you need to find your knife in the dark

 

[jester]

Thanks for the kind words!

Tritium would probably be better, but i am not sure, if it is legal in Germany.
Glowrings are not, as far as i know.

The back side of the sheath:

@Ebbtide: I think you got me wrong. If you ever happen to go camping with your wife AND girlfriend, you should leave all sharp objects at home!!!

 

[Ebbtide]

As Russel Crowe said in Master & Commander:
"Here's to wives and sweethearts!
May they never meet."

 

[Andrew Lynch]

Wow, I've never seen anyone else attach webbing like that (I used that design a couple of times). Very durable.

 

[jester]

I tried different methods before. Eylets, even sewing ( ) the belt-loop to the kydex, but all that didn't convince me. This method now seems to be the best to me. It also allows you to adjust the level of the sheath.
And most important: you can remove the leg strap, maxpedition sheath and belt loop and only attach a small kydex loop (which i still have to make for this sheath ).

 

[BuckyKatt]

Wow.

WOW.

That, my friend, is awesome.

 

[Jason Cutter]

Very cool and matched indeed by the sheath - one of best looking setups I've come across. Jason.

 

[jester]

Thanks again!

Your comments are the best motivation, to keep on going.

 

[dialex]

Great idea and a beautiful knife. Thanks for sharing.

 

[MicMurry]

Thats pretty cool, though kinda funny at the same time. That would certainly make finding it easy.
That sheath looks really awesome too.

I agree with Ebbtide, it was kinda dangerous to bring your wife and your girlfriend. 

 

[JTC]

That is an awesome idea! You do very nice work. I like the sheath alot too!


John

 

[Rugger]

Sieht echt gut aus.
Die Scheide finde ich besonders gut.
Tolle Idee!
Gruesse,
Mike

 

[samo]

Great job bro! Love the sheathwork!

Sam

 

[madhaha]

As Russel Crowe said in Master & Commander:
"Here's to wives and sweethearts!
May they never meet."

Thats an old Royal Navy toast. There's one for every day of the week.

I just dug up this excerpt from moviemistakes.com:

"When Captain Aubrey makes the toast 'To wives and sweethearts - may they never meet' he is following a custom in the Royal Navy called the toast of the day. There was a special toast for every day of the week. This one in particular was usually for Saturdays. There is a minor mistake, however: tradition dictated that the proposer (in this case, the captain) would say the first part 'to wives and sweethearts', to which the most junior officer present would reply 'may they never meet'. Here is the list that seems to be most commonly followed dates from before Trafalgar, courtesy of the Canadian Navy website: Monday - our ships at sea, Tuesday - our men, Wednesday - ourselves, because no one else is likely to both, Thursday - a bloody war or a sickly season (to ensure quicker promotion), Friday - a willing foe and sea room (The two preceding seem to be of historical interest only), Saturday - wives and sweethearts - may they never meet (reply is made by the youngest officer present) Sunday - absent friends."

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Extremely cool knife! You might want to check out the thread on the CRK forum about adapting a Sebenza to glow in the dark