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Way back when, I decided I was going to carry my BK2 drop-leg style. Before I got around to finishing that however, I tried it just on the belt like regular, and it worked pretty darn well, so drop-leg got pushed to the back burner, and then forgotten.
The fantastic job The Warrior did on his sheath setup got me to rethinking the drop-leg idea though, so I went back to it. Here is what I came up with.
Easy to take on and off, and with a few minutes work it can, like most of my mods, be removed to leave a stock sheath.
(You will have to forgive my poor photography skills. Some practice today ended up yielding less than stellar results. However, I think they should work to show the concept of what I did.)
The parts required were:
1 2-inch wide generic webbing belt
1 2-inch aluminum screw post
1 3/8-inch open ended aluminum screw post
1 3/4-inch stainless steel screw, same thread size and pattern as the aluminum screw post
1 2-inch wide side-release buckle
4 snaps
I then removed the single bar part of the side release buckle. (On the buckle there was one side that had a single bar, and the other had a couple that would catch the webbing. That is the side I kept.) Once that was gone and sanded down, I drilled a hole big enough to take the screw posts on either side, then attached it to my sheath.
After that, I ran a length of webbing through the other side, measured it to get it where I wanted it, then installed 4 snaps. Then voila! Drop-leg sheath conversion. I am pretty happy with how it came out. It is very easy to remove, and seems to work pretty well. Time will tell on whether or not I keep it this way.
The fantastic job The Warrior did on his sheath setup got me to rethinking the drop-leg idea though, so I went back to it. Here is what I came up with.
Easy to take on and off, and with a few minutes work it can, like most of my mods, be removed to leave a stock sheath.
(You will have to forgive my poor photography skills. Some practice today ended up yielding less than stellar results. However, I think they should work to show the concept of what I did.)
The parts required were:
1 2-inch wide generic webbing belt
1 2-inch aluminum screw post
1 3/8-inch open ended aluminum screw post
1 3/4-inch stainless steel screw, same thread size and pattern as the aluminum screw post
1 2-inch wide side-release buckle
4 snaps
I then removed the single bar part of the side release buckle. (On the buckle there was one side that had a single bar, and the other had a couple that would catch the webbing. That is the side I kept.) Once that was gone and sanded down, I drilled a hole big enough to take the screw posts on either side, then attached it to my sheath.
After that, I ran a length of webbing through the other side, measured it to get it where I wanted it, then installed 4 snaps. Then voila! Drop-leg sheath conversion. I am pretty happy with how it came out. It is very easy to remove, and seems to work pretty well. Time will tell on whether or not I keep it this way.
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