I just got this finished up last night.
As I keep selling every neck knife I make for myself, I thought I'd have one last go at making a keeper.
I can't tell you much about the blade as I didn't make it. All I know is that it's Damasteel with 'vine & thorn' filework & I love it! :D OAL is just 5" with a 1-3/4" cutting edge. The handle is Amboyna burl, epoxied in place with epoxy 'pins'
The sheath is the cool part, as far as I'm concerned. The trouble with leather neck sheaths is that you invariably have to have a tip-down carry configuration, making accessing the knife a little awkward & virtually impossble to do one-handed unless you make the sheath overly large & loose fitting. The downside with this is that the sheath becomes bulky & not very secure. The usual alternative is Kydex, which can be made much smaller & is far more secure.
My problem is that I
detest kydex sheaths with wooden handled knives. They just look wrong, fine with a modern handle material, but out of place with a traditional knife.
I've buggered about with this idea in my head for ages & I think I finally came up with a solution.
The band around the middle of the sheath conceals 6 tiny (4mm x 1mm) neodimium magnets. I punched out the leather to inlet the magnets & then epoxied them in place, covering them with a very thin layer of soft leather.
The magnets are rated to hold 4oz each & between them they hold the knife snug & secure in the sheath allowing me to carry it as I could a Kydex-sheathed necker!
Topic: Avoiding Kydex..... (Read 1601 times)
