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ok...I have five ratchets en route... I will probably get at least one sheath from Mr. Brown...but I can't really afford five sheaths after buying five ratchets...any other blade guard ideas out there? Just for transporting in a pack or my trunk...
 
GWG...

I gotta tell ya -- I REALLY wish that I could relate to that problem. ;)

CongRATs on scoring those Ratchets! :D
 
rationalizing- only one is actually for me :D

two friends each wanted one- and I bought two as gifts (I'm done for xmas for two people now...I'm a REALLY big dork...:o )
 
geekswithguns said:
any other blade guard ideas out there? Just for transporting in a pack or my trunk...
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Edge guard materials:
- cardboard wrapped with duct tape
- pvc pipe with a slot in it just long & wide enough to insert the Ratchet edge
- garden hose slit open
- wood with a saw kerf cut in it, wedge the edge into the kerf
- abs or lexan plastic heated enough to bend into a V shape

To hold the edge guard in place, a loop of paracord (or mason's line) just long enough to slip over the point of the hammer side of the head could be used to keep it in place. To be fancier, you could rig the cord with a cordlock to tighten it around the head of the Ratchet. You could also use velcro, including the double-sided kind sold to gardeners to wrap plant stalks to stakes.

My quick $0.02 worth.
 
Buy a few sheets of kydex, some rivets, a snap setter and a heat gun and make some really cool sheaths.

www.texasknife.com has everything but the heat gun, which should be like $15 at your local hardware store. Note - this site doesn't like firefox - you'll probably have to use Explorer to browse the online catalog.

I tired my hand at kydex (and sheathmaking) for the very first time two weeks ago. It was surprisingly easy. This is my first sheath - it took about 45 minutes to make start to finish:

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I bet you could make some killer holster/sheaths for your ratchets.
 
geekswithguns said:
ok...I have five ratchets en route... I will probably get at least one sheath from Mr. Brown...but I can't really afford five sheaths after buying five ratchets...any other blade guard ideas out there? Just for transporting in a pack or my trunk...
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You got 5, and I couldn't even get one, even with me getting one of the bolo's.... oh well....:cool:

Congrats!!!
 
The old Boy Scout handbook showed how to use a flattened tin can as an improvised axe edge guard. A can and a little duct tape should work fine, provided that you wanted to do that to a Ratchet.

I don't know, but I would bet a lot that the current handbook doesn't show that. Imagine the lawsuit if some kid tried it on the advice of the handbook and cut himself. If I had cut myself doing that, my parents would not have sued anyone, or even banned me from carrying the axe. They would have simply said, "Be more careful next time."
 
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