I had a little time this weekend and came up with an improved dangler design. Of course, "improved" isn't all that hard given my previous design consisted of a piece of cord, tied in a knot .

I started with an old piece of webbing with a tri-glide on it and a quick-link (both things I had floating around that I kept because they might come in handy some day).



I cut the webbing down to about 11 inches and made it into a loop; I doubled over the end that I fed through the tri-glide and sewed it so it so the webbing end cannot fit back through the tri-glide. Then I put the quick-link on the sheath's belt loop.




Finally, by putting the small webbing loop I made through the quick-link as well, I had an adjustable dangler that seems like it will do the job well:



This not only seems more secure than my previous set-up, but it is easily adjustable depending on how much "dangle" I want.

Very nice!thanks for sharing Dennis. I can sense my inner copycat springing to life.


One question: did you secure the ferro rod in any way other than the tube it slides into? It looks like you might have a para cord loop going through the handle. I would be inclined to do that to prevent the ferro rod from falling out, as long as the ferro rod leash was long enough.

Yes, actually the Primus firesteels use a small diameter shock-cord which seems to be the perfect solution. I just shortened it a bit (cut off the cord-end & tied the ends instead) and it now works perfectly. Here's a close up of it which hopefully helps:



The nice thing about the shock-cord is that it stretches into place and feels nice & secure when holding the firesteel. I've had it out in the woods a bunch of times since the original modifications and have had no problems at all with the set-up.