slight mis-calculation = FAIL

[bonafide]

Not all turn out to be works of art. At least I missed my hand during this epic fail of a test fitting.

 

[wildmanh]

Ouch!! Glad you missed your hand. I've done this also and it hurts to mangle a new creation like that.

 

[Rey HRH]

I suppose you've proven your knife is sharp enough. I don't have much experience with fixed blades especially with soft sheaths. Was it technique that would have prevented you from doing that or sheath design?

 

[Comprehensivist]

Sorry to see that Bud. At least you were not hurt. That photo makes me think of a painful zipper accident a la "Something about Mary."

Phil

 

[NUTRAMAC]

Damn Bud.
Your very lucky buddy. Phew don't be screwing your leather bending implements up we need you to make us all some proper pants

 

[Tha Baron]

Close one! Glad you didn't suffer a nik!

 

[FuriousD]

Yikes, guess i've lesson learned another lesson from a near miss

 

[bonafide]

I suppose you've proven your knife is sharp enough. I don't have much experience with fixed blades especially with soft sheaths. Was it technique that would have prevented you from doing that or sheath design?

Piss-poor planning on my part of the sheath design by making too narrow of a throat on the sheath coupled with THICK handles/blade.

 

[Mcracker]

not a complete fail...glad it was that hide instead of your hide!

 

[Bamboo]

that's like the dorsal fin poking through the water....

 

[malada]

Well, now you've got me rethinking an in the waistband sheath

 

[bonafide]

Well, now you've got me rethinking an in the waistband sheath

Nah .. that's why you do some T&E before finishing one. This sheath was waaay too tight/small/thin for THIS knife.

 

[McVeyMac]

Been there, done that Bud. Not on a sheath that I made, but on one where I thought a knife should fit. I just got too aggressive on the new leather that was not formed at all to any knife.

Malada, I use a well formed IWB sheath daily with no hint of a problem. The forces required to replicate bonafide's accident are not anything close to simple extraction and insertion forces required in a well formed sheath. I suspect that he was inserting the knife for the first time in order to form the sheath to the knife.

 

[bonafide]

I suspect that he was inserting the knife for the first time in order to form the sheath to the knife.

heh .. only descriptors missing is @ 0300 hrs and crossed eyed.

 

[schmittie]

Nooooooooo! Super suck bro!

 

[C_Stahl]

Oh man, glad it missed ya Bud. It was looking nice before the no-go.

 

[trestle]

Just put some duct tape on it

 

[VANCE]

Whoops!

 

[Uncle_P]

Hate to see that, glad to know you were not hurt.

So, what happens to that sheath. Pull out stitches and sew new front. Or is that a total scrap?

 

[bonafide]

Preston ... I throw it in the garbage. :topsy_turvy: