What kind of cutting tool do you have and where do you mount it?

[DreadnoughtNH]

Trilobite on my chest strap and a Spyderco Rescue Assist knife in my BC pocket.

After reading all these posts, putting the Trilobite on my computer wriststrap makes a lot of sense. I agree with Daebado: photos of your rigging please?

 

[W W Meixner]

WET...

This DGX Titanium knife/sheath package...$35.

Mounted in special ''knife sheath'' on right outside of dry-suit pocket...DUI CF 200 Signature Series dry-suit...

Best...

Warren

 

[Bert van den Berg]

Small knife zip tied to inflator hose and large knife on calf of left leg.

 

[Trailboss123]

I have one pocket on the waist belt of my harness that I can fit my SMB and reel in nicely. I mounted my knife to the outside of that pocket where it is easy to reach. It wasn't comfortable on my waist belt as it kept poking me if I bent over and I didn't have room to mount it horizontally. My Trilobite works well on my waist belt, however.

How are you guys mounting Trilobites to your wrist computers? I didn't know that was a thing! Anyone have pics they can share?

Thanks

This isn't the best picture in the world and if I remember, I will take a picture when I get home and post it, but you can get a sense. I slide the wrist strap through the trilobite sheath (some don't come with a threadable sheath, so you need to get the one that does). This is very old pic in Cozumel with my Aeris Elite T3 dive computer. I now have a Shearwater Perdix on the left wrist and still run the straps through the Trilobite sheath. Aeris Elite T3 is now on right wrist as backup. I do a lot of kelp diving and I like having the cutter on my wrist for easy and quick access. I also carry a more traditional foldable titanium knife in a sheath that threads through my waist strap on my BP/W on the right side. I prefer to have a redundant cutting device after a diving death here in Tacoma, Wa some years ago when an Instructor got tangled up in some fishing line and pulled out her cutter to free herself, but accidentally dropped her cutter and couldn't reach it and had no other means to extract herself and ran out of air and drowned.

 

[TrimixToo]

I have two Shearwaters, a Petrel and a Perdix. Each has two straps. One computer has a knife (the left), the other a line cutter I added a year or two ago. The straps just thread through the strap slots provided in each.

 

[Storker]

BFK on my calf.
Small (5cm/2" blade) knife on my waistband.
Ceramic blade trilobite on my left shoulder strap.

 

[TrimixToo]

BFK on my calf.
Small (5cm/2" blade) knife on my waistband.
Ceramic blade trilobite on my left shoulder strap.

With a sense of deep regret, I stored my BFK in my garage dive box, where it remains for sentimental reasons only. It got me entangled, twice, even though it was strapped to the inside of my calf. I should have gotten the message the first time, but I'm slow.... YMMV.

 

[Storker]

With a sense of deep regret, I stored my BFK in my garage dive box, where it remains for sentimental reasons only. It got me entangled, twice

My BFK has never gotten me entangled. OTOH, it has provided me several wolffish over the years. As you say, YMMV.

 

[happy-diver]

BFK on the waist on the right down there, it's thirteen inches long

use it too, cleaned the barnacles off the stabilisers on Saturday, took off a bit too much aluminium though

great for currents

 

[rabe]

This one one on the right side of my harness hollis line cutter - Google Search:

...and this one on my computer (left side) hollis line cutter - Google Search: