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263380 Charles Driggs <cdinde@v...> 2017‑09‑26 Re: Knife Sheath Design
> On Sep 25, 2017, at 8:50 PM, scott grandstaff  wrote:
> 
>  So, what's wrong with this approach? How is it, out of literally thousands of
knife sheaths I have seen I never saw this? Surely if it was a good idea someone
else would have done it?
> Maybe its been done lots of times and I just never saw it?

Hey, Scott, why not?  I may just adopt this approach in replacing the flap
retainer on my cellphone belt holster — the design I’m referring to is visible
here:

	http://www.colonellittleton.com/?s=No.+47+phone+holster

After five years of pretty steady use and considerable accumulation of ‘patina',
some repair is needed.  The leather retainer that holds the flap closed, thereby
securing the phone, has acquired a habit of slipping off the brass ball stud
more than it stays on.  The the slit in the retainer has spread open with use
and just won’t grab the ball tightly.   Your approach, adapted to barely slip
over the stud and stay on via a snug fit, could extend this holster's usefulness
a few more years.  So now there is one more use for my somewhat neglected
leatherworking hole punches.  Most of those punches are very likely 50-100 years
old, so they definitely are old tools — and in what may present no surprise to
many of us, the older punches work quite a bit better than youngest / newest
punch in the bunch.

Charlie

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