New Halcyon knife

[FFMDiver]

lost my DIY DIR steak knife last week.
How do you guys make it stay in the sheath?

 

[Hoosier]

Bungee cord

lost my DIY DIR steak knife last week.
How do you guys make it stay in the sheath?

 

[MonkSeal]

Bungee cord

I'm not sure if this is a DIR way. Can you explain it?

 

[MonkSeal]

lost my DIY DIR steak knife last week.
How do you guys make it stay in the sheath?

The sheath must be tight enough.

 

[mweitz]

See how he has a little loop of Bungee around the knife:

http://www.baue.org/images/galleries/equipment/waiststrapheight

I tried this for my wife when she started diving since I had a knife like that and it fell out a couple of times her first day.

The Akona solution workes very well, is a good little knife and doesn't fall out of the sheath. In the big scheme of things a couple of $50.00 knifes doesn't even register on the SCUBA $$$ Scale.

 

[MonkSeal]

See how he has a little loop of Bungee around the knife:

http://www.baue.org/images/galleries/equipment/waiststrapheight

I tried this for my wife when she started diving since I had a knife like that and it fell out a couple of times her first day.

The Akona solution workes very well, is a good little knife and doesn't fall out of the sheath. In the big scheme of things a couple of $50.00 knifes doesn't even register on the SCUBA $$$ Scale.

I'll try this first time I loose my knife :05:

 

[Meng_Tze]

I'm not sure if this is a DIR way. Can you explain it?

Bungee cord around the handle may not be what the purists in DIR use, it certainly is DIR in my opinion as long as the knife is secure and can be drawn in one easy go. This does mean that the handle should probably not have any ridges or anything that could snag in the bungee. The bungee basically 'lengthens' the sheath without compromising the accesibility of the handle. Heck, as long as I can draw the knife in less than one second, who cares if it is secured with a bungee? The bungee should be snug around the handle to keep the knife aligned with the sheath even when in hor. trim.

I am sure there are different opinions out there and I do not want to go into a ' DIR/DIW' discussion.

just my $0.02

 

[verybaddiver]

i just burn a hole through the knife webbing tie about 1 metre of cord too it and the other end to the knife and keep the cord in with the knife. Therefore when you pull the knife its on a 1 metre cord, and you wont lose it.

 

[MonkSeal]

...tie about 1 metre of cord too it and the other end to the knife...

Which definitely isn't DIR.

 

[Hoosier]

Actually, this is an identical Halcyon knife on their current website.

Now, I need to get or make sheath......

You can buy the Akona at LP for 20 bucks and make your own sheath...

http://www.leisurepro.com/Prod/ItemIndex_1/AKNKC.html?Search=op%3ddtSearch%26SearchFlag%3dall%26Term%3dakona+knife%26AdvSrchSortField%3dRelevance%26SortDesc%3dFalse%26Hit%3d1


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