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    A few years back I was living in the Snowy Mountains and met a fella that was into knife making as a hobby. I had a Condor Bushlore knife blank I had bought from Ebay and this chap offered to make me a handle for it with the antler from a red stag he had found on the road. It turned out really well, but I could never quite get a sheathe for it that fit well. I had considered getting a kydex kit but never followed up on the idea.

     On one of my recent trips I had the pleasure of meeting back up with Rifletuner after 2 years and saw the work he had been doing with the knife for SS which was really good quality.

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    I mentioned that I was having sheathe troubles and he offered to help out with a custom kydex sheathe. Well I just got it back and it is absolutely perfect.

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   Thanks RT. I am very happy. Hopefully I get an opportunity to pay you back somehow.

 

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Glad you are happy with it mate. I still have my L plates on, but each time I work on something to do with knife making, I learn from the experience. I have been watching a heap of youtube videos on kydex sheath making, and it seems I was not heating up the kydex sheet enough. Its kind of a fine line, because if I heat it a little over the edge it burns and is not usable. Yours shows the mark of just a fraction too much heat, but otherwise I was happy with the way it turned out. I hope it serves you well. ???

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29 minutes ago, Rifletuner said:

Glad you are happy with it mate. I still have my L plates on, but each time I work on something to do with knife making, I learn from the experience. I have been watching a heap of youtube videos on kydex sheath making, and it seems I was not heating up the kydex sheet enough. Its kind of a fine line, because if I heat it a little over the edge it burns and is not usable. Yours shows the mark of just a fraction too much heat, but otherwise I was happy with the way it turned out. I hope it serves you well. ???

I encountered the same tempering issues when I tried making a recurve bow out of PVC pipe on a stove. There is art to it.

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Yes mate. Like a lot of things, there is a large part "science" where you can follow a formula and get replicable results. But also an "art" in that you have to develop, a "feel" before you get great results each time.

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