Quick Bk2 Sheath tips

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amp281

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Just another comment on the BK2 sheaths, I managed to make the sheath 1 hand draw easily by jamming a screwdriver into the retention area and then heating the plastic with a heat gun. I also attached a smith's Arkansas stone pouch to it with paracord (wrapped one long paracord horizontally between the slots and then a second piece of paracord in an X pattern through the rivets). This really made the sheath easier to draw from and it took about 30 seconds to do.

Here's a pic:

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Next thing I plan to do is either replace the nylon band with a teklok or reinforce it with a sheet of plastic.
 
Good tip. I swithed straight to a Spec-Ops sheath so I didnt have any time to fret over the tight draw. I am sure a bunch of people will be doing this shortly.
 
Great suggestion. I recently took the nylon band off as the retention snap had pulled out. Currently experimenting with diff methods of strapping (elastic, leather, paracord) wrapped around the sheath to facilitate horizontal carry....
 
Its funny but 2 hours later it was back to square one... tight as hell. I drilled the top two rivets out and it can now be easily drawn but it doesn't fall out unless I really shake it hard. You might want to remove one at a time first and see if that makes it easier. Removed the nylon band, it was a nuisance. Cut it off with a husky lockback razor knife and then drilled at it, actually the nylon frayed apart and fell out at this point. I then used a wirecutter and a hacksaw to cut at the rivets from the side until they finally popped off.

I'm going to probably put a tek-lok on it. I assume the larger style tek-lok on knife-kits is the correct size? http://www.knifekits.com/vcom/product_info.php?products_id=284? are there better tek-lok brands/sources? Ironborn, you should consider this as well I think.

This sheath doesn't appear to be dulling my blade at all, I've drawn it maybe 30 times since last time I sharpened it and it still cuts paper.
 
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Its funny but 2 hours later it was back to square one... tight as hell. I drilled the top two rivets out and it can now be easily drawn but it doesn't fall out unless I really shake it hard. You might want to remove one at a time first and see if that makes it easier. Removed the nylon band, it was a nuisance. Cut it off with a husky lockback razor knife and then drilled at it, actually the nylon frayed apart and fell out at this point. I then used a wirecutter and a hacksaw to cut at the rivets from the side until they finally popped off.

I'm going to probably put a tek-lok on it. I assume the larger style tek-lok on knife-kits is the correct size? http://www.knifekits.com/vcom/product_info.php?products_id=284? are there better tek-lok brands/sources? Ironborn, you should consider this as well I think.

This sheath doesn't appear to be dulling my blade at all, I've drawn it maybe 30 times since last time I sharpened it and it still cuts paper.
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It will cut paper it wont dull it to that point but it will take off the very fine edge hair popping/phonebook paper,ive tested it over and over thinking that the angles i was using were too low but it ended up being the sheath
 
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