Professional Soldier - the way I see it :)

PiterM

PiterM

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Well... I know that Professional Soldier is a very special knife. It should stay flat on molle and be ready for cutting action on a landing zone. Small, lightweight & sharp. However, I personally do not practice HILO combat jumps that often ;) so I see it a bit different.

For me it is small, flat, lightweight, and tough utility fixed blade. I'm going to use it attached to the shoulder strap of my light Eagle backpack. For mountineering, biking, hiking etc. So I decided I'd need a bit different sheath. Smaller, slimmer, which would allow me to draw the knife easily. So that's what I did. That is not a sheath intended for combat use, I know. But for utilitarian purposes should do just fine. What I like about it the most? The fact that you can FULLY grip your knife and draw it smoothly out of the sheath. Hope you like my design... below compared to the regular PS sheath.

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The piece looks good but an all steel knife is dangerous to the user. Blood, water and sweat will make you the first thing it cuts. A small G10 inset on each side would be of great value. Cord wrapped better then nothing.
This is my opinion and I speak for no others !
Also a lanyard to the thumb and will extend over the back of the hand would be of value. A sliding bead ( On the lanyard )will let you also carry if you need both hands.
 
Great work Piter.
I am very happy with my PS but the sheath is a let down. I had considered cutting down the sheath but you have inspired me to make a new one.
Thanks for sharing your design.
 
Nice Peter. I could use a sheath like that for my PS knive to go on my kit. A little bit lower profile then the Blade-Tek one. All my buddies and I love the knives though. I'm glad I got 2 of them.
 
Good sheath design ! If that knife had a straight handle I'd buy one.I hate curved handles.
 
Piter,
I like your enhancement and as always your pictures speak volumes. That's some great Kydex work you did there!

-Troy
 
I got to handle the PS at blade and one of the few things I didn't like about it was how hard it was to draw from the sheath. I was nitpicking, but I hate when you buy a new knife and immediately have to buy a sheath for it for whatever reason.

GregB
 
so... just another picture of PS:

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AND... original sheath reworked. It works good and now it is much more general-user-friendly IMHO.

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FWO said:
The piece looks good but an all steel knife is dangerous to the user. Blood, water and sweat will make you the first thing it cuts. A small G10 inset on each side would be of great value. Cord wrapped better then nothing.
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While it's undoubtedly a very high quality blade (I just got my first CR in the mail, an Aviator) and is exceptionally cool looking, it's a bit of an odd duck isn't it? Supposedly meant for special forces users as a combo small blade/shackle wrench (:confused:) it certainly wouldn't be much good as a combat knife with no good way to cordwrap or otherwise add a decent grip.

I'm no special forces operator but I would think a serious blade would already be part of a regular loadout, maybe this is meant to be a backup? Either way it looks cool! :thumbup:
 
Nice work Piter, as always...

Any plans to wrap yours? I would be interested to see what its like with a nice cordwrap.

Mark
 
FWO said:
The piece looks good but an all steel knife is dangerous to the user. Blood, water and sweat will make you the first thing it cuts. A small G10 inset on each side would be of great value. Cord wrapped better then nothing.
This is my opinion and I speak for no others !
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You speak for at least one other than yourself:thumbup:
I'm at a bit of a loss with regards to the shackle key as well. It wouldn't seem to be the best tool for such use as your hand would be getting pretty close to the exposed blade, wouldn't it?
 
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