Shoulder Harness Options

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MrMike

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Hi:
I'm looking at a shoulder harness that's a bit more stylish than a standard shoulder bag nylon strap with makeshift carabiners. Any ideas/vendors?

Black or brown leather preferred. Thanks.
 
Chuck at ChuddyBear could make you one, you may need to send him your blade though. I have dealt with Chuck on a lot of sheathes, his work is outstanding, reasonably priced, short wait times and he responds to emails very quickly.:thumbup:
 
Sharpshooter Sheath Systems makes a great baldric rig that you can get at
Knives Ship Free. I have one for my BRKT Golok and I love it.
They are an awesome piece of leatherwork, and very versatile.
 
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ArchAngel said:
Sharpshooter Sheath Systems makes a great baldric rig that you can get at
Knives Ship Free. I have one for my BRKT Golok and I love it.
They are an awesome piece of leatherwork, and very versatile.
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+1 on the SSS baldric. I like mine alot also.
 
Sarge posted this one once, not sure if it was his work but I wouldn't be surprised, and he had some nice ones he showed over the years.

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Edit: found some other pics, I think also from Sarge:
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Thanks mpisi for the pics. I'd like to try that with either a padded rifle sling or padded backpack strap. Great stuff!
 
Ah, its hard to tell from the picture, but the fittings seem "wrong", from the battojutsu perspective.

Are all HI sword scabbards made with fittings designed to be worn blade down?

This is something that has always bothered me about english machette fittings. I can cut off the draw when I am holding them in my hand, but when you wear it its impossible. Mounting the sword "blade down", or in this case blade forward, means that it is impossible to pivot the sword around your palm when you draw, making a battojutsu cut impossible.

I suppose that its probably done that way in this case though, becasue the kukiri is done that way. And in that case, its a good thing. A forward curved blade can't really be drawn blade up, you wreak your draw moving your hand up and down to get it out.

I wish they would lengthen the loops on the kukiri though, there isn't much room to turn it sideways in the Gurkha draw.
 
It seems like it would be easy to modify the frog on any HI sword scabbard to carry it edge up. I'm not even an amateur leatherworker, but it looks fairly simple for anyone who knows what they're doing.
 
Possible, but both sides of a Nepalese type scabbard are not the same, the back side usually has a ridge where they pull the leather tight doesn't it?
 
Sorry if I am hijacking the thread into a general wearing/drawing discussion:

Of course, a battojutsu cut with any sort of frog will reduce the hip hugging motion of your draw from center. Perhaps someone should invent a modern tactical version of the obi/hakama system.

Once you have done sash carry, you don't want to go back, is my opinion.

Though I know how to sash draw a sword in the Muso Jikiden Ryu style, I don't know how you would sash draw a kukiri. The only way that I have mastered is the standard draw from blade down to horizontal that Uncle Bill wrote up on the site, which is the exact opposite of the jikiden style, because- OWW DAMN.

Note to posterity, it is not safe to thumb a kukiri to loosen it in the scabbard, you will stab yourself on the notch thing. No serious injury thankfully.

The problem that I see with a sash carry for a kukiri, is that a sash favors twisting the blade away from your body like a blade up horizontal draw, whereas the kukiri seems to favor twisting it in toward your body with a blade down draw. Additionally, the kukiri seems to require that it hang at less than belt height in order to do so comfortably.

Idk, does anyone have info about which direction a kukiri was worn in a sash? The only solution to me seems to be to wear it blade up, and twist it away from you with an open hand in order to avoid cutting yourself. the karda scabbard seems to be good for this purpose, actually, but I don't have a low sash to test it with.
 
I have tried wearing one in a sash, edge up, and in front.

It draws well that way and the forward balance makes the khukuri naturally"right itself" in your hand immediately after drawing it.

I'm designing a frog to wear a khukuri at an angle (for crossdraw) as an experiment.
 
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