Wrist mounted cutting tool

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:23 am

For those of you who wear a cutting tool/device on your forearm, which model do you like and how do you mount it?

Geek · Post by **Geek** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:38 am

http://www.uscav.com/productinfo.aspx?p ... catid=2657

Joshua Smith · Post by **Joshua Smith** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:39 am

I can't recall the brand, but Curt was selling these really slick line cutters out of the silent scuba booth at the expo. They cut through nylon line like a hot knife through butter. I mounted it right to the wrist strap on my Shearwater.

Geek · Post by **Geek** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:41 am

I never even thought about mounting a cutter on my forarm I got so much other stuff on there already, is it very common?

Nwbrewer · Post by **Nwbrewer** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:49 am

It's fun trying to reach the DIR position for your knife when in SM huh?

airsix · Post by **airsix** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:53 am

I met and dived with Christian Norman last week. He was wearing a really slick wrist mounted line cutter and as soon as I can track it down I'll let you know. It takes an off-the-shelf carpet knife blade so it's cheap and easy to keep sharp, is very low profile (maybe 3/16" thick) and deploys extremely easily. I liked it A LOT.

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:27 am

Nwbrewer wrote:It's fun trying to reach the DIR position for your knife when in SM huh?

haha, yeah. i can get the knife out, but putting it back in the sheath will likely result in a stab wound to the abdomen.

airsix wrote:I met and dived with Christian Norman last week. He was wearing a really slick wrist mounted line cutter and as soon as I can track it down I'll let you know. It takes an off-the-shelf carpet knife blade so it's cheap and easy to keep sharp, is very low profile (maybe 3/16" thick) and deploys extremely easily. I liked it A LOT.

if you liked it, i'll like it. let me know what you find out.

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:32 am

airsix wrote:I met and dived with Christian Norman last week. He was wearing a really slick wrist mounted line cutter and as soon as I can track it down I'll let you know. It takes an off-the-shelf carpet knife blade so it's cheap and easy to keep sharp, is very low profile (maybe 3/16" thick) and deploys extremely easily. I liked it A LOT.

was it this one, ben?

http://eezycut.com/

CaptnJack · Post by **CaptnJack** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:57 am

spatman wrote:
Nwbrewer wrote:It's fun trying to reach the DIR position for your knife when in SM huh?
haha, yeah. i can get the knife out, but putting it back in the sheath will likely result in a stab wound to the abdomen.

Slitting your wrists is faster and less painful than NWDC too.

scottsax · Post by **scottsax** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:20 am

spatman wrote:
Nwbrewer wrote:It's fun trying to reach the DIR position for your knife when in SM huh?
haha, yeah. i can get the knife out, but putting it back in the sheath will likely result in a stab wound to the abdomen.

Why? Does SM pull on you differently, so you can't reach the sheath?

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:24 am

scottsax wrote:
spatman wrote:
Nwbrewer wrote:It's fun trying to reach the DIR position for your knife when in SM huh?
haha, yeah. i can get the knife out, but putting it back in the sheath will likely result in a stab wound to the abdomen.
Why? Does SM pull on you differently, so you can't reach the sheath?

the tanks in your armpits make it a little cumbersome to reach the belt. when i get things adjusted better, that might change...

John Rawlings · Post by **John Rawlings** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:25 am

spatman wrote:
airsix wrote:I met and dived with Christian Norman last week. He was wearing a really slick wrist mounted line cutter and as soon as I can track it down I'll let you know. It takes an off-the-shelf carpet knife blade so it's cheap and easy to keep sharp, is very low profile (maybe 3/16" thick) and deploys extremely easily. I liked it A LOT.
was it this one, ben?

http://eezycut.com/

That's the same one that Curt was selling and Josh mentioned above. Like him, I mounted mine on my Shearwater strap - completely out of the way, unobtrusive, but easily and quickly available.

- John

airsix · Post by **airsix** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:43 am

John Rawlings wrote:
spatman wrote:
airsix wrote:I met and dived with Christian Norman last week. He was wearing a really slick wrist mounted line cutter and as soon as I can track it down I'll let you know. It takes an off-the-shelf carpet knife blade so it's cheap and easy to keep sharp, is very low profile (maybe 3/16" thick) and deploys extremely easily. I liked it A LOT.
was it this one, ben?

http://eezycut.com/
That's the same one that Curt was selling and Josh mentioned above. Like him, I mounted mine on my Shearwater strap - completely out of the way, unobtrusive, but easily and quickly available.

- John

Yep, that's the one I was talking about as well. Christian had his on the underside of his forearm. I just watched the product video and am surprised they didn't feature the sheath/velcro tab combo. It's a really great design for securing and deploying.

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:54 am

Thanks for the replies, guys. I'll give that one a try.

John Rawlings · Post by **John Rawlings** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:00 pm

spatman wrote:Thanks for the replies, guys. I'll give that one a try.

You might contact Curt McNamee - I'm sure that he'd be happy to mail you one if he still has some in stock. I live only about a mile from his place, so as an alternative I'd be happy to pick one up for you and bring it to you at the club dive....

They will fit almost anywhere. If I remember correctly, when you buy you get a choice of two different sized sheath openings for different sized straps.

- John

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:01 pm

John Rawlings wrote:
spatman wrote:
airsix wrote:I met and dived with Christian Norman last week. He was wearing a really slick wrist mounted line cutter and as soon as I can track it down I'll let you know. It takes an off-the-shelf carpet knife blade so it's cheap and easy to keep sharp, is very low profile (maybe 3/16" thick) and deploys extremely easily. I liked it A LOT.
was it this one, ben?

http://eezycut.com/
That's the same one that Curt was selling and Josh mentioned above. Like him, I mounted mine on my Shearwater strap - completely out of the way, unobtrusive, but easily and quickly available.

- John

I want one! Could have used it yesterday. Damn fishermen :angry: leaving line everywhere!

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:07 pm

John Rawlings wrote:You might contact Curt McNamee - I'm sure that he'd be happy to mail you one if he still has some in stock. I live only about a mile from his place, so as an alternative I'd be happy to pick one up for you and bring it to you at the club dive....

thanks, john, i'll send curt a message. unfortunately, i won't be at the club dive, so i'll ask him to mail it to me.

Joshua Smith · Post by **Joshua Smith** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:27 pm

John Rawlings wrote:
spatman wrote:Thanks for the replies, guys. I'll give that one a try.
You might contact Curt McNamee - I'm sure that he'd be happy to mail you one if he still has some in stock. I live only about a mile from his place, so as an alternative I'd be happy to pick one up for you and bring it to you at the club dive....

They will fit almost anywhere. If I remember correctly, when you buy you get a choice of two different sized sheath openings for different sized straps.

- John

Yep! 2 big thumbs-up for this little critter. It's a great piece of gear, and I really like the wrist mount thing.

camerone · Post by **camerone** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:06 pm

I've been carrying a hook knife on my waist strap for a long time: http://www.paragear.com/templates/parac ... 10&level=1. They've got styles for every preference of size and cutting surface area. In my case, I happened to have had a spare one from my skydiving gear, which I used to keep on my chest strap in case of a reserve deployment with a fubar'd line. (Sadly, 400+ jumps, and never had to pull my reserve chute...I'm an anal retentive parachute packer...) When I switched my rig, the new parachute container came with one on the leg strap, so it was surplus. It's served me very well.

Hook knives (like the EZ Cut) in general are far better than crappy sliced-down steak knives, most general dive knives, etc, because they catch the line and hold it, making slicing through cord a single handed operation. Good stuff, and it's virtually impossible to cut what you don't intend to by the very design of the unit. They're also super cheap. I'm not so sure I like the "replaceable blade" on the EZCut - only because it's so cheap to just replace the whole unit on something in this style. If it starts to rust, I just throw it away and replace the whole thing...no chance of the plastic getting brittle and breaking, the unit falling apart, etc.

I don't know that I personally like strapping one to my arm... I use mine on my belt as the waist mounted line cutter. I just think arm mounting gives you a very un-clean look to the gear config. If you want something close to your hand, as a backup cutting device, I personally think a better choice is the little Tekna knives - the Xtra Edge http://www.techdivinglimited.com/index. ... _id=102488. This knife tucks easily and smartly into the Goodman handle of your dive light, mounted with a single screw/nut pair as a rotating hinge, and it is always ready to go when you have your light in your hand.

Joshua Smith · Post by **Joshua Smith** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:59 pm

I like mine on my wrist for when I do HALO jumps into the ocean at night with my sniper rifle when people are shooting at me.

camerone · Post by **camerone** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:59 pm

Let me know next time you want to try it. I'm game, although I think the sniper rifle might be a little excessive...I mean, those cabezons are pretty mean SOBs, but a swift whack with a stage bottle usually sends them screaming for mama without the need for large caliber firearms...

renoun · Post by **renoun** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:32 am

camerone wrote:.I mean, those cabezons are pretty mean SOBs, but a swift whack with a stage bottle usually sends them screaming for mama without the need for large caliber firearms...

I guess you haven't talked to Fishstiq lately, yesterday he was claiming that he shot this an oversize sculpin in self defense.

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