u/Arran_Gunn

I've been refining the perfect way to carry my EDC without feeling it with every step or every time I reach into my pocket, squat down, play with my son on the playground, crawling under my car, riding my boxer, or working out (I do push ups, squats, burpees and pull ups in spiral stairs, ledges and bars i find in public parks) with rigorous field testing for years and so much money down the drain on sheaths, pouches and man purses I just cant believe the solution was so god damned simple... duct tape... I made a horizontal front mounted sheath for my leatherman ARC and you can do a a full ass to grass squat without feeling it, and it dosent weigh your pants down, and for the bit kit and ratchet driver I made a duct tape sheath and a pocket clip out of 1mm stainless(bent and shaped it with the leatherman pliers and file) drilled two holes and used 3 mm screws and nuts to fasten the deep carry pocket clip, and that bundle i tuck on the far right of my right back pocket and i forget i even have a full bit kit and a rachet driver in my back pocket. Basically, a little creativity, ingenuity, ductape and whatever scrap you find laying around, then you can make pretty much anything.

What im carrying:

-leatherman ARC, front horizontal belt carry

-Galvanox Bit kit with the largest flat heads removed

-SOG Keytron folding knife in my wallet

-SOG MacV card multi tool, also in my wallet

-SOG powerpint: either in gold digger pocket, back pocket, or duct tape sheath on the belt. (out of all my knives and multi tools in my collection I have honestly never owned anything as realiable, useful, cost affective and tough as all hell as the SOG powerpint. So much so, that when I dropped 300 euros on a leatherman ARC, im still unable to leave the house without the powerpint.... because sometimes you need two pliers, and the powerpint is the perfect companion piece for whatever you are carrying even if its just the powerpint.. nuff said)

I've been refining the perfect way to carry my EDC without feeling it with every step or every time I reach into my pocket, squat down, play with my son on the playground, crawling under my car, riding my boxer, or working out (I do push ups, squats, burpees and pull ups in spiral stairs, ledges and bars i find in public parks) with rigorous field testing for years and so much money down the drain on sheaths, pouches and man purses I just cant believe the solution was so god damned simple... duct tape... I made a horizontal front mounted sheath for my leatherman ARC and you can do a a full ass to grass squat without feeling it, and it dosent weigh your pants down, and for the bit kit and ratchet driver I made a duct tape sheath and a pocket clip out of 1mm stainless(bent and shaped it with the leatherman pliers and file) drilled two holes and used 3 mm screws and nuts to fasten the deep carry pocket clip, and that bundle i tuck on the far right of my right back pocket and i forget i even have a full bit kit and a rachet driver in my back pocket. Basically, a little creativity, ingenuity, ductape and whatever scrap you find laying around, then you can make pretty much anything.

What im carrying:

-leatherman ARC, front horizontal belt carry

-Galvanox Bit kit with the largest flat heads removed

-SOG Keytron folding knife in my wallet

-SOG MacV card multi tool, also in my wallet(removed the bottle opener to make it more flat

-SOG powerpint: either in gold digger pocket, back pocket, or duct tape sheath on the belt. (out of all my knives and multi tools in my collection I have honestly never owned anything as realiable, useful, cost affective and tough as all hell as the SOG powerpint. So much so, that when I dropped 300 euros on a leatherman ARC, im still unable to leave the house without the powerpint.... because sometimes you need two pliers, and the powerpint is the perfect companion piece for whatever you are carrying even if its just the powerpint.. nuff said)

0I've tried multiple sheaths and none of them really did it for me and it all comes down to bulkyness and orientation. So I started making my own by sewing leather and pressing kydex to folding steel.... but all those fancy methods got destroyed by a simple roll of duct tape. I went to tbe hardware store and found the duct tape with the coolest texture, then I wrapped the tape around the Arc including the pocket clip as tight as I deemed necessary with the glue facing outwards, then I wrapped it again but this time time glue side inwards (glue to glue) then I did the same to my belt, and with those two separate "molds" I trim off the sides to size (make it bigger than you need because if you wrap something aye an angle you'll get some glue overlap) and then I take the belt loop and thread my belt through it and then I hold the Arc sheath up to the belt loop (bersonally I have it mounted in front of the belt on the right side of the buckle with the Arc being ejected to the right, I use index or thumb to push the Arc out and into my palm with the knife ready to deploy all of this single handed in one motion, no velcro flap or lock stop button. Out of all the sheaths ive used and made, I've ended up making a duct tape sheath for all my knives multi tools and bit sets, because it only takes about 10 mi uses, dosent look that bad (not that ot matters because no one sees it) and i like front mounting it horizontally because i dont feel it and it easily deployable while seated and standing and it dosent take pocket space