Ssooo => I like my Perrin Bowie and my Ark, but not so much the sheaths. retention is so-and so, and the Bowie rattles like crazy in the production sheath. They are also very bulky.
I’ve done some sheaths before for my personal use, for SPOT, Swick, some flashlights etc, and it is not that difficult, although it might take a few try before getting them the way you like. The beauty of kydex is, you can re-heat it over and over (don’t know how many times really) until desired shape and fit.
Since I make this stuff for my own use, I don’t care about the looks. As you can see, I tinkered the retention a bit by only heating small parts of the sheat with a lighter torch, and that usually is too hot (read, I hold the flame too close) and it leaves some “burn” marks on the sheat. However, on both the retention is awesome, I can literally shake and shake the crap out ot them and the knives don’t fall out. But when extracting the knife, they come out with just the right amount of force applied.
Neat thing about both of the knives is those trademark holes. With a little tinkering (heat the sheath area and press a light dimple) they help to keep the knife in the sheat, without causing too much resistance when the knife is pulled out of the sheath.
I did not have any black rivets or such lying around, so I just use what I had available. To top it off, I used some kevlar/dyneema cord I happened to have.
Now I’m carrying the Ark attatched to my bullet proof vest at work, with an velcro attachement, works like a charm.
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[/URL]Feel free to share yours, guys and gals :spyder:
. Here's a couple of the sheaths I've done lately.. :) 
