The sheath on it however left me underwhelmed. Not terrible by any means, it did what it was supposed to do, but nothing that great either.
I made a comprehensive sheath mounted survival kit for it, the Survive’mups. Works great, but I do see it as something for fairly specific times and places. Great on a two week canoe trip way up north, bit over kill for a overnight hike/hammock hang a short ways around here. Having to strip the thing down to just the sheath is just not feasible.
I opted to make a sheath for it, to mount horizontally atop a waist pack I’m designing and building. I had already modified the original sheath a lot, but I still wasn’t that fond of it.
I decided to just use the hard protective sheath inside it, more or less the dimensions of the material surrounding it, and go from there.
After removing the seam tape and the stitching holding it together. These would serve as templates for the new sheath.
The two small holes towards the bottom are for a chicago screw to replace the rivet that I drilled out.
The grid lines are for a new modular attachment system I’ve devised. Instead of using Malice Clips, I’ve been switching over to just tying everything on with parachute cord. The waist pack I mentioned a moment ago, I’m making it out of lighter material and also many of the parts will be permanently sewn on. There are still some parts of it that I can see changing in time. I don’t need full on PALS modularity, but some way to swap components around is good. So instead of PALS webbing, the latticework of parachute cord I used on the inside of the Ouch’mups would work just fine. Lighter, less bulky, and still modular. (Hhmmhhh, I guess I should come up with a clever acronym... how about Cord Lattice Attachment System Pattern. There we go. CLASP.)
The grid lines are for a new modular attachment system I’ve devised. Instead of using Malice Clips, I’ve been switching over to just tying everything on with parachute cord. The waist pack I mentioned a moment ago, I’m making it out of lighter material and also many of the parts will be permanently sewn on. There are still some parts of it that I can see changing in time. I don’t need full on PALS modularity, but some way to swap components around is good. So instead of PALS webbing, the latticework of parachute cord I used on the inside of the Ouch’mups would work just fine. Lighter, less bulky, and still modular. (Hhmmhhh, I guess I should come up with a clever acronym... how about Cord Lattice Attachment System Pattern. There we go. CLASP.)
This is very much geared towards carrying in one manner in one very specific spot. I wish I had a second plastic scabbard, to create another sheath, but I think that might have to wait till I get a Kydex set up to make something like it. One day...
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