RokJok
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Hi all,
Please excuse my lack of FMA knowledge. My impression is that there are times when you have knives in both hands for thrusting or slashing. Is that correct?
With that in mind, I devised a way to lash the sheaths for a pair of neck knives together with paracord that makes both blades easily deployable with a double-handed yank. The arrangement is dependant on the placement of the rivets holding the two halves of the sheath together (or the neck cord holes) and aligning two or more of these to lock the sheaths together. I daresay you could add epoxy between the sheaths to further lock them together. The finished rig is in the shape of a capital letter "A" with the handle of a knife sticking out each leg of the "A".
I adjusted the neck cord so that the handles are at about sternum level. Simply bring both hands up to grab the handles simultaneously (I find this a very natural motion) and yank them both downward sharply to deploy. Viola! You are now armed with a blade in each hand.
I have some .jpg images of such an arrangement done in Photoshop with CRKT Polkowski Companion sheaths. My original rig done with Cold Steel Mini-Tacs works even better because Mini-Tacs do not have handles angled downward relative to the spine of the blade. This results in a more obtuse (open) angle for the handles than the Companions give. Also, compared to the Companion sheaths, the Mini-Tac sheaths radius together much more smoothly where they intersect at the bottom of the rig.
Another nice thing about these models of neck knives is that they can be bought pretty cheaply online. The CRKT Companions are about $30 and the Mini-Tacs are about $25. Besides the smooth edge version of the blades, Companions can be had half-serrated and Mini-Tacs fully serrated.
Unfortunately, I don't have a way to post the .jpg images into this thread. So if someone can do that for me (or if anyone would like to see them) please email me and I'll email the pics back to you.
Many thanks in advance,
Greg
glmalinski@hotmail.com
Please excuse my lack of FMA knowledge. My impression is that there are times when you have knives in both hands for thrusting or slashing. Is that correct?
With that in mind, I devised a way to lash the sheaths for a pair of neck knives together with paracord that makes both blades easily deployable with a double-handed yank. The arrangement is dependant on the placement of the rivets holding the two halves of the sheath together (or the neck cord holes) and aligning two or more of these to lock the sheaths together. I daresay you could add epoxy between the sheaths to further lock them together. The finished rig is in the shape of a capital letter "A" with the handle of a knife sticking out each leg of the "A".
I adjusted the neck cord so that the handles are at about sternum level. Simply bring both hands up to grab the handles simultaneously (I find this a very natural motion) and yank them both downward sharply to deploy. Viola! You are now armed with a blade in each hand.
I have some .jpg images of such an arrangement done in Photoshop with CRKT Polkowski Companion sheaths. My original rig done with Cold Steel Mini-Tacs works even better because Mini-Tacs do not have handles angled downward relative to the spine of the blade. This results in a more obtuse (open) angle for the handles than the Companions give. Also, compared to the Companion sheaths, the Mini-Tac sheaths radius together much more smoothly where they intersect at the bottom of the rig.
Another nice thing about these models of neck knives is that they can be bought pretty cheaply online. The CRKT Companions are about $30 and the Mini-Tacs are about $25. Besides the smooth edge version of the blades, Companions can be had half-serrated and Mini-Tacs fully serrated.
Unfortunately, I don't have a way to post the .jpg images into this thread. So if someone can do that for me (or if anyone would like to see them) please email me and I'll email the pics back to you.
Many thanks in advance,
Greg
glmalinski@hotmail.com
