Subjectively

This is a pic of a duct tape wallet that I just made. What is hiding behind it is a 3.5×5.5 moleskine with graph paper. I scavenged the picture window from an old wallet I had laying around.
The front cover holds 6 cards nicely.
I made the card pockets to fit the cards that are in them. I wrapped the tape from the card pockets around the pen, with a little tape on the inside to keep the pen from sticking. Nothing but duct tape was used.
The pen is a modified Zebra F701 from this post. The loop also fits the pencil.
No animals were harmed in the making of this wallet, especially DUCKS.

I’ve been working with android for about a week now, and the swype keyboard has made my life a lot better. This post, for example, has been entered with swype in about 30 seconds.  If you only knew how painful that was with iPhone, you’d be impressed right now.
Armed with an LG G2x on T-Mobile, you will start seeing a lot more posts from me in the field.
onward and upward…

Ok, what I really wanted was this KA-BAR Becker Combat Utility Knife. Once again with the caviar tastes and beer budget.
So I’m browsing through the Knife Shoppe in the Arlington mall, and come across this United knife in a kydex sheath that’s a dead ringer for the KA-BAR. Wonder of wonders, it costs 35 bucks.
On the way out of the store with my new knife, I think about how I’m going to mod it up. It has a lanyard hole begging for some paracord, strap loops and eyelets in the kydex sheath for a leg strap.
Here’s a picture of what happens when you leave me alone with a new knife and paracord for a few minutes.

I also bought a simple nylon strap and buckle at WallyWorld for $1.88.

Here’s the finished product. It cost a grand total of 36.88 plus a little paracord I had lying around which is probably worth about $2.

Sure beats $115 retail for the KA-BAR, and I’m not so worried about beating it up. It’s already been to the woods a few times. Processes wood like a champ, and I have batoned it through several logs with no ill effect other than losing a little blade coating. Since I can have 3 of these for the price of a KA-BAR, I’m way happy with it.