Knife Sheath Help - Snaps

[Fonzarellis]

On your next sheath you may also want to consider a 'dangler' set up. Use a stitching groover to recess the stitches on the inside of the sheath where the sheath loop attaches thereby eliminating the snap and reducing the chance of slicing through your stitching. The secondary belt loop is the only place you have a snap, a rivet and a ring. The dangler set up makes it easy to take on and off your belt but knife retention relies on a wet formed fit. It also allows the knife to ride a bit lower right where your hand is. Just google up dangler sheath if you are interested.

[rawcustom]

A common method is to use a secondary loop around your sheath that your belt loop snaps to. I advise securing the secondary loop with stitching or a rivet otherwise they tend to fall off and get lost. If you're worried about retention than build it to use 2 snaps rather than one.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about. Although you don't see the back side, you can see what I mean with the second loop around the sheath.

[vwaltman]

This is very similar to what I did as well on this sheath and I used 2 snaps on the cross strap

Vern