My first self built Knife

[Simon]

I'd say it was a little bit of carbon burning out of the surface due to the oxidising atmosphere .. probably hardened fine under that .. if you use it again, get a small bottle of CO2 or Argoshield .. and squirt some in before closing the door to blast the oxygen out and replace the atmosphere with an inert gas .... it will reduce the scaling and oxidising on the surface ..... other than that. sounds like a very controllable way of HTing

 

[Stuart]

I have now finished the sheath for my knife so I thought I would show the finished project
(WARNING THIS POST CONTIANS CHEESY CATALOGE STYLE PHOTOS)


The sheath is made from Kydex covered in buckskin and hand stitched, the screws hold in place a Tec-Loc belt loop and the rear screw adjusts the tension with which the sheath hold he knife in place. (it wasn't an intended feature it just worked out that way)

I used Kydex because i like the way that the knife locks firmly into place with a satisfying 'Click' but i did not like the way it looked hence the buckskin finnish (matches the colour clothing a usually wear too :roll: )

this is the back, and you can see the details of the belt loop

and this is the cheesy cataloge shot, sorry to subject you to this but i couldn't think of any other way to show how it looked on the belt (yes i tried a close up shot but it made the knife look huge!)

I chose this orientation as i aways cross draw my knife (a habit from using puukkos which are always cross draw) and this set up means that i can sit down comfortably without my knife digging into me

so thats it..... Knife finished ):

 

[Adi007]

Super stuff Stuart! Nicely done indeed! :biggthump :You_Rock_ ):

Where did you get those snazzy looking Tec Loc clips from?

 

[Stuart]

I got them from heinnie

 

[Ed]

Very nice... looks good

Ed

 

[bushwacker bob]

Stuart, great job on the sheath but no firesteel loop?
Watch out or Freemans will be headhunting you ):

 

[C_Claycomb]

I was thinking it was more of a GAP type photo, what with all the khaki!!

Nice sheath Stuart, I am really looking forward to having a look at it close up.

You know...you could have used easy to find black kydex, given that you have covered it all, instead of really rare, hard to find, brown kydex

Still boggling at the cost of those tekloks :yikes: I am going to try getting mine from the US. I haven't checked if Blade Tech will ship here, but I am sure that someone will.

 

[Stuart]

I used the light brown kydex sheet for the sheath and kept the nice dark brown one.

the opening at the mouth of the sheath is brown on the inside where as if i had used black kydex it would have been black, so i suppose the colour is being used a little

I do tend to where khaki a lot, it has to be my favourate colour for clothing

 

[Lithril]

Excellant knife mate, very impressed, you'd better be bringing it to the meetup.

K thats another project on the long list that I really want to do but really don't have the time at the moment....

 

[ESpy]

Blade Tech do ship to the UK, but charge you an arm + ancilliary limb for the shipping. Then you get slammed for duty & VAT.

I've got some white Kydex in 0.040 too... No idea what I want to use it for, yet. About the only idea I've had is a sort of urban camo effect with black.