Sheathmakers, please read this idea...

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Chiro75

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Since I am out of the game, so to speak, I was thnking about a possible sheath review of some of BFC's local makers. The idea would take some time to get going, but here it is: get as many of our local sheatmkaers, leather, Kydex, or whatever, to submit a sheath made for the same knife. I would carry the knife in each sheath for a few days, and report on aesthetics, fit, wear (to the sheath and the knife), comfort, versatility, etc, etc. It would take a while to get all the sheaths together, especially if it is for a knife that has to be sent around a bunch of times. Anyway, it's an idea. If there's any interest let me know...

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Idealy the design would be up to the maker to show off what he thinks is the best design and execution of it. The best way would be to find a knife everyone has in common, but if that isn't possible, then we'll try Plan B, which is to send the knife from one person to the next.

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My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/frames.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
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Sounds like a campy idea. I don't normally sell my sheaths, so the comparison would be for my own satisfaction. I do think that it would be better to pick either one specific or one of three knives you may have to have sheaths made for. That way it would cut down on the evaluation time. Say you had option of making a sheath for a 4" fixed. Or making a sheath for a Buck 110. (something universal). Who gets the sheaths after testing?

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As for who keeps the sheaths, I would like to keep the one I like best for myself, and then I suppose we could raffle off the rest. The reason I want the sheaths all for the same knife would be to keep things as constant as possible, as well as the difficulty level the same. For example, making a sheath for a 3/16" thick integral with no scales is usually a heck of a lot easoer than on something like a Chris Reeve Project I. Let's see how much interest there is, then we can play with the idea of what knife to do it on...

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My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/frames.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
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I think you should gather a couple different people, in different occupations/uses to carry and evaluate each sheath. Then maybe raffle/auction off the sheaths, with the proceeds maybe going to BF. It would be neat if we could send out blades with the sheaths, to widen the market beyond people with that particular knife, but I do not know how you'd work getting the knives for that.


Stryver
 
Stryver, all good ideas but maybe beyond the scope of what's do-able. I am limited in the amount of time and energy that can be spent in this endeavor, so maybe this idea won't happen right now at all, or at least with me as the organizer of it...

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http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/frames.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/madpoet/main.html

 
Chiro,
I was discussing the proposed competition with Matt, and suggested to him that the easiest way to cut down the time involved and the hassle factor for you would be for each sheath maker to supply his own copy of the same easily available inexpensive knife. For example, the ubiquitous Camillus/Ontario Jet Pilot's knife with 5" blade is available to anyone who doesn't have one or know someone who does for around 20-25 bucks at any gunshow and lots of places online. Since the objective is to evaluate the sheath, it would serve as well and be lots less troublesome than shipping one custom Talonite tactical tanto around the country. Whadda ya think?
Berk
 
Originally posted by Chiro75:
As for who keeps the sheaths, I would like to keep the one I like best for myself, and then I suppose we could raffle off the rest.

Sounds like a great way to get a sheath.
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db, you're starting to sound like someone else who really is beginning to piss me off. You should have looked at my webpage before you made your ignorant comment. Does it really look like I need anyone else to make a sheath for me? Especially considering the time and expense it would take to write up a review, take photos, etc of all the submitted sheaths? Give me an f-ing break! This is a means to get the sheathmakers together, OF WHICH I AM ONE (duh!) and see what kind of designs result. This is also called free promotion for these makers. What a jerk. I can make a sheath for any knife I own in under two hours. It will take five times that and a hell of a lot more money to do this promotion piece for these guys. Next time, before you make yourself look like a total jackass, do your research before you open your mouth.

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My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/frames.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
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WOW!!!
So who else do I sound like?
What is really making you mad about my post? It does sound like a good way to get a sheath to me, so what is your problem?
Your last post seems like an attack against me, that is ok though. I was born an a-hole, and have been working on being a bigger one all my life.
 
Good point...you are probably the same person using two different accounts. What is making me mad about your post is that it is insulting and it doesn't even make any sense. That is the worst way I can think of to get a sheath. In the amount of time I've spent reading your post and making replies to it, I could have made a sheath if I wanted to. Making webpages takes a lot time. Taking pictures and having them developed, then scanning and uploading takes a TON of time. Using a bunch of other people's sheaths and evaluating them takes a ton of time, too. I put hours and hours of work into simply writing a review, not to mention all the time it takes to do the rest of it. I will try to spell it out for you: DOES THAT MAKE MORE SENSE THAN GOING INTO THE BASEMENT AND JUST MAKING MY OWN SHEATH????
Use your head! Since you seem to have it all figured out, db, why don't you explain to me why it would make more sense for me to do all that work, spend all that money, at take all that time to get a "free" sheath when I could go in the basement and make one before TV starts tonight? Or, better yet, how that expense would make more sense than just paying one of these makers for a sheath to my specs? I mean, you are engaging in a specific attempt to paint mud over my name, but your argument is so stupid it doesn't even begin to hold water. The best thing would be to admit your mistake and apologize, but knowing your type all too well you will instead keep this +ine of "reasoning" going and make yourself look like an ever-increasing a-hole, which apparently is your mission in life. Pretty damn pitiful if you ask me.

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My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/frames.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
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Ok, Mr. Sheathmaker why do you want to keep the one you like the most? Sounds like you could just copy it in a hour if you wanted to. Once again who is this person I remind you of, or you think I am? I have only 1 user name on this forum, I also use the same name on the others, KF, and BM's forum. You can also see me in rec.knives as dbtoe. If you don't beleive me have Spark do a ip check for you. Hope that clears that up.
Btw your own posts are the insulting ones not mine.
 
Gee, I would like to keep the one I like the most because I like it the most. That makes pretty good sense, db. And as far as thinking you may be someone else, you are the person who brought that up, not me. I don't copy other people's designs, either. YOu just can't keep it zipped, can you? Oh well. I give up. You're right, doing tons of work and spending many more times the amount of a sheath really IS a good way to get one! Thanks for helping me see the light. And, if you honestly think your posts are not insulting to me, then you need a serious lesson in how to play with your neighbors. I refuse to roll over and play dead when someone is unrightfully smearing my name. If you took anything as an insult here, then that's good because that's how I meant it, to be frank.

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My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/frames.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/madpoet/main.html

 
You said I reminded you of someone else, I asked who. You are the one that brought it up. This is really getting silly you need to reread your posts. I think they will show you that you are the one who needs a lesson on playing nicly, not me. Looks to me like you are the one making all the insults. I can think of many resons many resons why you would like to see other makers sheath, and money has nothing to do with it.
 
db, for the first time in this thread you truly have me interested. WHy don't you tell me why I (repeat I....somehow you must have earned the gift of mindreading along the way) am interested in seeing another maker's work? I guess since I already blew you away on the whole "free" idea that you've come up with something else now! This is unbelievable! I think you are projecting some things that you need to work out, but just for giggles let's see why I want to see someone else's work! Just so you hear it from me first, I was interested in finding a good referral due to the enormous number of sheathmaking requests I have been sent since my "retirement". I have been emailing Normark off and on to see if he could make a sheath I could see to see what his quality is like, and thus be comfortable sending people his way, then I thought that may be unfair to the other makers and I should let them have a chance, too. I can't wait to see what your version of my intentions are, though! I really am interested, though, so please don't make me wait too long. TO any of the makers that are reading this, too, I do have to thank db for one thing. Due to his comments and the fact that they caused me to really think about how much time this project will take, I am calling it off. I don't have the time to do this (although db knows the true reason I'm calling it off, right db???
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) right now. Probably not for a long time, actually. I would, however, be game to set up a gallery sort of like what Kevin Miller has done with his Knife Kit Gallery. I would put a little bio about each maker who wanted to be included, as well as any pics of their work they want posted, and contact info. That would work out really well, actually, and it would save me a great deal of work. And as far as that "free" (still laughing about that one), I guess I'll have to skip the dramatic return of Dylan's father to 90210 tonight and just make the darn thing myself!
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Anyway, let's do the gallery instead. WHat I will need is an email (not a post) from interested makers with bio info, links to pics or .jpg's or gifs that are emailed to me, and I will make sense of the stuff and make a webpage out of it. I will also need contact info, samples of prices, etc. SOund cool? db, let me know what I was thinking, too. I really am interested!

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My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/frames.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/madpoet/main.html



[This message has been edited by Chiro75 (edited 03-15-2000).]
 
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Breathe in . . . slowly . . . calm blue ocean . . . calm blue ocean . . . *whew*

Well Steve, I thought your idea was a good one, and Berkley's suggestions were great (it would have been my vote for everyone to make a sheath for a standard knife). Alas, it looks as though now this review will never come to pass.

Sigh.

Matt

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Now who is the mind reader? Please show me anyplace I said you wanted a free sheath. As to the price factor that you spelled out spin those numbers anyway you can to make your point. This is my first and only comment on $ in this hole thread.You seem to be the onlyone assumming what the real meening of comments are, and who I am. Funny how you know what I am thinking when you don't even know who I am. At the start of this you say I sound like someone, and then in the next post you say I must be this same person.
Now it sounds like your toon is changing from you being a reviewer to a referral service. Well now isn't that interesting.
As for you thanking me, you are very welcom I am always glad to help. Even when it is someone who feels the need to insult me and call me names.
 
Oh, this is most amusing. Almost as exciting as a good old episode of "Dallas"
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