EDC

Old knife, new ring!

Posted on February 22, 2019 by akadventurer

Stuck a stray D ring I found in the shop on my Dad’s Schrade 225H. I like the fob I have on my big Amherst hunter for back pocket carry– fob hooked over the top of the pocket helps hold the knife upright, and aids in drawing it out.

But I also like the idea of easily being able to remove fobs from knives for messier tasks. Getting blood out of 550 cord is impossible!

D ring should allow me to fob it, but use a micro caribiner, s-biner, snap hook etc so I can rake it off easier.

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Categories: Customized, EDC, knives

Flashlight fobs.

Posted on February 21, 2019 by akadventurer

Going through some things I had out to setup a keychain a fewcdays ago, and decided to finally fix this lanyard.
Got it in a passaround box a couple years ago as I recall. It’s a cool setup, a classic hangmans noose.
But I never really used it much ’cause its so long in the tail. Best it ever got was a few weeks on my bike keys, to pull them from the bottom of a pocket… but I didn’t like how long it hung when using the key..
Anyway, looking at it and a zipper pull I had with a glow in the dark end on it–also from a passaround box– that I’ve never used, and thought what the hell? (Why not?)

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Loop from the zipper pull on top, new lanyard turned fob, and what I cut off on the bottom.
Sucker glows nice!

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Honestly didn’t know what I’d do with it, but it had a much better chance of finding use now than before!

Fast forward to yesterday.
Recently when I got this little 1xaaa 5.11 Atac light from another passaround box, I had to find a way to add a fob for pocket retrieval.

With it, the same as another light I’ve had a while, it seemed the only option was to just hook the pocket clip through a split ring on the fob. It’s an easy pull from the pocket, and the pocket keeps it in place when cliped.

The problem is that in use, it slides down the clip, and can come off, and sometimes takes extra care to position it when clipping back to the pocket… A pain in the butt.

After a few variations I settled on this, the same setup but with a micro ring as a keeper through a hole in the clip, so the fobs ring can’t slide down.

Works perfect, and made me wish I could do that with the other light– but it has no holes in its clip.

Wait, I can fix that!
Drilled one hole dead center, and instead of the keeper ring, just put the fob ring throughit. The hole weakened the clip strength, so Ihad to bend it in a little maybe 1/8″, increase the pre load tension, works fine again now.

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Great place for that shortened up fob/lanyard from above too.

That light is a single mode, 2xaaa from Bushnell, not super bright, but really handy, one of my favorites. As I recall I got it in a secret Santa here a couple years ago. Should be even handier now!

Categories: cordage/550, Customized, EDC, Flashlights

EDC mid Aug to end of Nov, 2018.

Posted on November 29, 2018 by akadventurer

Got a little behind on posting these reports. Probably not many pics for this time span either…

Categories: Alaska-Life, Daily-cary-log, EDC, EDC/MT use, Uncategorized

A rare sharp.

Posted on September 17, 2018 by akadventurer
Dug this one out mid last week.

Don’t carry it much any more, for fear of losing it… Hate that I do that though so I got it out. Pretty unique knife, a little ironically because it’s just a cheap Rough Rider.. You have to go back to Schrade in the 60s and 70s to get another one of thus pattern in this size.
Modern copperhead pattern is close but not the same, this is a true folding hunter, scaled to 4″ overall closed. Love it! Perfect size for the pattern IMNSHO, wanted one ever since I’d seen the Schrade, so I jumped on this one when I saw it…. Eeeek, gotta be 9 or 10 years ago now.
I’ve never been able to find another one either! Even at the time I got it, it was the only Rough Rider like it I could find.

Categories: EDC, Hunting, knives

EDC, mid July to mid August 2018

Posted on August 18, 2018 by akadventurer

Gee, that was a short month!

Categories: Daily-cary-log, EDC

MYRIANN Tempered Glass Screen Protector, After 3 Years.

Posted on July 29, 2018 by akadventurer

About three years and 2 weeks ago I got a tempered glass screen protector for my then new Samsung Galaxy S5 Active. A cheap one.

Its great! Clear and touch sensitive, can’t tell any diference in using the phone. Easy to clean, and so far I have yet to mark, scratch or stain it, and I’ve been on a messy construction/remodelling job site all week.
It was easy to apply, with a glasses cleaning cloth, the included alcohol wipe, and antistatic dust collector cloth… peel the back, press it in place, and press the center, and the adheasive magicaly self levels out all the air bubbles… It wasn’t even a one time deal, the adheasive will lift, and allowed me to move it twice to get the best fit, yet its still on there solid if your not trying to move it.
Now, it doesn’t fit Exactly right. Its a touch too big at the top and botton edges, and since my phones screen sits in a recess with a lip around it, the top edge of the protector is held just slightly above the surface of the screen… But its and area like 1/8” wide, but maybe 1/4” long above the speaker… Big deal

The same goes for the 1/8” wide bar that crosses across the bottom below the buttons, for like 1” its off the screen. Again, who cares?
Both spots are only sitting about half way up that lip, and because of the lip itself nothing can get under the protector in those areas, so it doesn’t matter. Otherwise its a perfect fit.
Here is the card that came with it, for the item/brand info if anyone is interested. This was like $6 shipped.

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And amazingly it’s lasted all thee years. Mostly;

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My phones screen by comparison is immaculate! Not a mark or speck on it!

I’d say that cheap $6 screen protector definitely did it’s job, and I more than got the good from it, and beyond the investment!

Categories: Adventures, Alaska-Life, Damages, EDC, Electronics/Media, Usage Reviews

EDC Mid May to Mid July 2018

Posted on July 11, 2018 by akadventurer
Categories: Daily-cary-log, EDC, EDC/MT use, Guns, Hanks, knives, Leather, Lighters, Multitools, Pocket knives, Summertime

Glasses!

Posted on June 2, 2018 by akadventurer

N

ew gear!
A buddy gave me some cash for my birthday, and after a little deliberation, I went for getting myself something I’ve needed for a while now with part of if it.

Yup, I g

ot new sunglasses

!

You might recall that my good pair got broke while hunting last September.

Been wanting, but putting off new ones since then. But the last couple months as its gotten brighter and brighter coming out of winter, I’ve really needed some.

Also needed new clear safety glasses for work, and new shooting glasses…
So I killed 3 birds with one stone;
5 interchangeable lenses! Impact safety rated for work and shooting, 99.9% UVA and UVB blocking.
I figured I can only do one of the three activities/concepts at once, so a fast lense change every now and then wouldn’t hurt, could be the best way to go.

Turns out it really is a fast easy change too!

They’re not sold as polarized , but so far the copper and smoke lenses both cut glare like they are!
Came with keeper cord, a micro fiber bag for carrying one separate lens, a nifty 5 slot micro fibre/plush sleeve that separates the lenses, 5 lenses in smoke, copper, orange, yellow and clear, and a neoprene case for all of it.

To me that was a steal for $32 (local price; Online you can find them as low as $19.99, but before shipping. ) especially since it is 1/5 what replacing the last ones could cost IF I could find a pair (discontinued model).

It’s even cheaper than the last safety/sun glasses I had, a smoke black pair from 3M, they were $45. They lasted me about 4, naybe 5 years, and are still useable, but some of the marks on thd lenses are getting pretty annoying.

They’ve been backups in my truck for a while, but now in my bike bag, a last ditch pair.

Those by 3M are what I was going after to get again, when I found the Radians.

Anyway;

Here are the frames sans lenses, and then changed to the smoke from the copper shown above. Only takes maybe 45 seconds, a minute max to swap them.

Adjustable temple/earpiece lengths and soft bridgr pads, plus super light weight= really comfortable.

So far I’m using the smoke for general wear, and changing to the copper, which is a deep orange/amber with a pink tint, for riding the bike. After a few minute my eyes adjust and take out the pink tint, then the amber does like other brown/amber glasses I’ve had; Hightens contrast and boosts depth perception.

Only time will tell how the other colors will work but so far I’m really enjoying them.

Categories: EDC, Field gear, GetOutdoors, New Gear, Summertime, Sunglasses

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