Neck carry?

[Hoodoo]

How many of you like to carry your Woodlore knfe around your neck in the field? I have a knife very similar in size to a Woodlore and I find it way too heavy for neck carry. I do like neck carry though, but prefer lighter knives for it, like a Mora puukko or something similar.

For EDC, I carry a Benchmade Tether under my shirt. It's a good little knife and not heavy enough to be annoying and it's always there.

 

[Celtic Dragon]

I to can see the Woodlore being to heavy as a neck carry. I have a 8" drop point hunter which I prefer to carry as a cross body fixing, ie the strap is over my right shoulder and the knife below my left armpit.

Simon

 

[Martyn]

I to can see the Woodlore being to heavy as a neck carry. I have a 8" drop point hunter which I prefer to carry as a cross body fixing, ie the strap is over my right shoulder and the knife below my left armpit.

Simon

I thought when everyonbe refered to neck carry, that's what they meant?

 

[Celtic Dragon]

I've seen some neck sheaths, that just hang round the neck.

Simon

 

[Martyn]

yeah, for the little biddy american neck carry things, but in reference to the neck carry sheaths and the woodlore, I thought everyone was slinging em cross-shoulder, baldric style, as Gary puts it.

 

[Andy]

i thought that as well

 

[Hoodoo]

Interesting way to carry a knife. I'll have to try it. Another possibility is to use a wide strap to distribute the wt more evenly on the neck, like a bino strap. On problem I frequently have is that a lot of the time when I'm in the field I have binos around the neck and a knife just adds to the weight and gets in the way. Carrying it to the side though might solve that problem.

 

[Martyn]

I think the folks who are carrying it this way Hoodoo (tip down, in a baldric), are comming up with some marvelous macrame knotwoork bandanna's made from paracord. I think the idea is that if you really, really needed the cord in a pinch, you've about 30 metres of the stuff in yer baldric sling.

 

[gurushaun]

Anyone got a link to the Macrame knots used?

Cheers

Shaun

 

[Martyn]

I think it's just facy plaiting of your own invention.

 

[Doc]

The 'armpit carry' may not be new. I vaguely remember a reference to Scots Highlanders carrying a dagger ('sgian ochles') in a similar fashion in the 18th Century

 

[Gary]

Goes back further than that Doc, Ancient britons would wear a utility knife around there neck or slung elsewhere as that they could keep their belts free for weapons.

Native americans and later mountian men would wear their scalping or patch knives like wise hung. Incidently the woodlore neck sheath is actually the same sheath design as the mountian man would were on his belt - in the laters case his belt passed over the sheath locking the blade in tight so an enemy couldnt draw it.

 

[Stew]

Anyone got a link to the Macrame knots used?

Cheers

Shaun

I don't know if this is what they use but I've found this site useful for a few different braids.

Gimp Link

Hope it helps.

 

[Powderburn]

Gator recently posted this link on another forum. It has nicer illustrations than the GIMP link Stew posted. (Still a nice site, Stew, and I have it bookmarked.)

Boondoggle Man

These braids require two or more individual lengths of cord, though. Ideally, you'd do one out of one long piece, but I'm still searching for links other than The Slatts Rescue Belt knot.

 

[Stew]

(Still a nice site, Stew, and I have it bookmarked.)

Hey, no worries.

I think I prefer Boondoggle now - Photos are so much nicer and easier to follow!
One of the things that I don't like about Gimp Link is that the drawings aren't very clear as to what the end result would be like so you have to mak it then realise it's not what you were after.

 

[Viking]

Do you carry all your knives around theck/armpit ot is it only woodlore knife that you carry this way. I´ve started to carry my knives this way and I like it more and more.

 

[Powderburn]

Stew, I found out last night that even with clear color photographs on the Boondoggle site to guide me, I still eneded up with something other than I originally planned. My intention was to tie a "Square Stitch" but it turned out to be a "Round Stitch." :roll: I must admit that the results were pretty good for my first try, though.

 

[Stew]

Stew, I found out last night that even with clear color photographs on the Boondoggle site to guide me, I still eneded up with something other than I originally planned. My intention was to tie a "Square Stitch" but it turned out to be a "Round Stitch." :roll: I must admit that the results were pretty good for my first try, though.

:-D It's easily done! Basically, for the round stitch you do the same sequence each time but for the square stitch you have to fold each strand of the cord (or boondoggle, gimp, etc) back over itself.
It's easier if you're using 2 colours of cord because then you can see how the pattern is developing without too much effort and straining of the eyes.

 

[Powderburn]

I was using two colors of cord! ): Once I realized the mistake, I just kept going till done instead of tearing it apart. Here's a tip: don't do this stuff with long lengths of thin cordage like mason's twine. I was up much later than planned trying to finish.

 

[Tony]

Oi, use nettle cordage ...not that I do :rolmao: