kBob
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I tend to pinch pennies until old Abe screams like a little girl.
Unfortunately I am the type that spends money pried from my wallet on cheap crap rather than saving up to get something worth having.....
...thus it was that I was walking by the cheap junk tables at Tractor Supply and something caught my attention, memories of Russell stings and Goober boot knives raced though my noggin and even a few still shots of the 1980's S&W branded knock off of the Goober Boot knife and then I caught sight of the mark down sticker of $9.99 and before I could stop myself I had justified, picked up, paid for, and walked out to the truck with a S&W HRT knife.
Hey, it was set up with a plastic sheath with a neck chain on it and all tactical black, even that bead chain. Turns out the sheath has a belt clip on it that makes it about twice as thick as a neck knife sheath augth to be. OK I can live with that or get out the dremel with cutting disc.
The "double edged blade" is in fact only sharpened on one side, I guess in an attempt to make the knife OK in those states that certainly in the past had laws against "Dirks" or "Daggers" unfortunately there is no shape to the handle or what passes as a guard to allow one to index the edge.
The thing that is driving me nuts is that the knife fits the sheath so tightly that attempting to unsheathe one handed from the neck knife carry would no doubt break the bead chain and leave me with the knife and sheath still locked together in my mitt. In fact the guard fits the sheath so tightly that I actually have to grip the sheath with one hand and the grip with the other and pull HARD to get them apart. Being somewhat accident prone I can see this as an invitation to slash the begeebers out of myself......most likely in front of my Scout Crew miles down some river without a paddle.
So rather than buying a decent neck knife like some folks around here have designed, I "Saved Money." Unfortunately I currently have a knife more comfortably stored in my truck glove box than around my neck.
It looks to me like the "Friction fit" between the guard portion of the grip and the sheath is simply to much of a mechanical lock. I am trying to determine if I should reduce the area inside the sheath or geld the guard of the knife a bit to reduce the amount of force necessary to sepperate the two. The Spousal unit suggested a bit of vasoline one the parts, but that seemed an invitation to have grease warmed by my chest oozing on to the grip as I carried on the neck chain.
Other than "trash it and spend money on a real knife" any suggestions on saving this one?
-kBob
Unfortunately I am the type that spends money pried from my wallet on cheap crap rather than saving up to get something worth having.....
...thus it was that I was walking by the cheap junk tables at Tractor Supply and something caught my attention, memories of Russell stings and Goober boot knives raced though my noggin and even a few still shots of the 1980's S&W branded knock off of the Goober Boot knife and then I caught sight of the mark down sticker of $9.99 and before I could stop myself I had justified, picked up, paid for, and walked out to the truck with a S&W HRT knife.
Hey, it was set up with a plastic sheath with a neck chain on it and all tactical black, even that bead chain. Turns out the sheath has a belt clip on it that makes it about twice as thick as a neck knife sheath augth to be. OK I can live with that or get out the dremel with cutting disc.
The "double edged blade" is in fact only sharpened on one side, I guess in an attempt to make the knife OK in those states that certainly in the past had laws against "Dirks" or "Daggers" unfortunately there is no shape to the handle or what passes as a guard to allow one to index the edge.
The thing that is driving me nuts is that the knife fits the sheath so tightly that attempting to unsheathe one handed from the neck knife carry would no doubt break the bead chain and leave me with the knife and sheath still locked together in my mitt. In fact the guard fits the sheath so tightly that I actually have to grip the sheath with one hand and the grip with the other and pull HARD to get them apart. Being somewhat accident prone I can see this as an invitation to slash the begeebers out of myself......most likely in front of my Scout Crew miles down some river without a paddle.
So rather than buying a decent neck knife like some folks around here have designed, I "Saved Money." Unfortunately I currently have a knife more comfortably stored in my truck glove box than around my neck.
It looks to me like the "Friction fit" between the guard portion of the grip and the sheath is simply to much of a mechanical lock. I am trying to determine if I should reduce the area inside the sheath or geld the guard of the knife a bit to reduce the amount of force necessary to sepperate the two. The Spousal unit suggested a bit of vasoline one the parts, but that seemed an invitation to have grease warmed by my chest oozing on to the grip as I carried on the neck chain.
Other than "trash it and spend money on a real knife" any suggestions on saving this one?
-kBob
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