Technical Kydex

After doing some Kydex for my own Fälknivens, I decided to dress up some other knives in Plastic. The Shiv came with an extremely shitty sheath, and I decided my Rat Cutlery Knives are worthy of a more customized sheathing system too..

The bracket will take both beltloop or a tek-lok.

I chose leather for the beltloop, as it has the right mix between stiffnes and flexibilitie. Where I find the teklok too stiff in some cases, and nylon webbing is too soft sometimes.

The foldover type of sheath will fit the Maxpedition Single pouch or the Blade-Tech pouch, made by Eagle Industries. The next model will have an adapter plate that takes a Malice Clip to attach a wider model pouch too. This plate could also be made too take molle loks or other systems

This was a good excercise in plastic bending.
Especially the use of the heatgun while forming of details like the thumbpush on the Shiv and the RC-3 sheath was a great experience, and worked out above expectation. Also the setting of the final retention on the RC-4 sheath was very easy..
The trick is to wrap a wet cloth around the sheathed knife, exposing only that part that you want to form. That way the rest of the kydex that is allready shaped well, won't become too hot,and loose it's form.

As always, comments are very welcome..

Martin

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28-03-2010

UPDATE

Some more examples and slight variatons on the Technical Kydex sheath

Fällkniven F-1

Rat Cutlery (ESEE) RC-3

Swamprat Hairy Carry

Bear Cub Grizzly

Extrema Ratio Shrapnell

Cheers,

Martin