A good friend of mine is a wilderness expedition leader and open boat canoe instructor. He had long been singing the praises of his Leuku for everything from felling trees to carving up caribou but a solidly wet week last September on a big Swedish lake played hell with the leather sheath and didn't improve the wooden handle all that much either.
Since I had already made him a Kydex multi poistion sheath (primarily for neck carry) for his Fallkniven F1, he asked if I could make something in Kydex for the Leuku. That then expanded to fitting a new manmade handle. His only stipulations were that he wanted it all black, to match his F1 rig, that it had to have some brass somewhere, to comply with old Sammi tradition, and that the handle had to work with mittens too.
The result isn't fancy, but boy does it cut! 9" blade lightly re-ground to a short convex edge, 5.25" handle from a solid block of canvas Micarta, brass spacer and pin. The sheath has a hole at the tip for tying on a monkey fist to aid in drawing the knife in cold weather and the use of screws allows it to be openned up a little for cleaning.
Thanks for looking.
Since I had already made him a Kydex multi poistion sheath (primarily for neck carry) for his Fallkniven F1, he asked if I could make something in Kydex for the Leuku. That then expanded to fitting a new manmade handle. His only stipulations were that he wanted it all black, to match his F1 rig, that it had to have some brass somewhere, to comply with old Sammi tradition, and that the handle had to work with mittens too.
The result isn't fancy, but boy does it cut! 9" blade lightly re-ground to a short convex edge, 5.25" handle from a solid block of canvas Micarta, brass spacer and pin. The sheath has a hole at the tip for tying on a monkey fist to aid in drawing the knife in cold weather and the use of screws allows it to be openned up a little for cleaning.
Thanks for looking.
