How do you carry your ED folding knife?

[kozmic]

A Benchmade Mini-Griptillian has been my everyday carry for over a year now. I'm a lefty and I clip it inside my front left pocket, hinge down. I can pull it out and open it with one motion. It is natural, quick and positive to operate.

I have a hinge up clip folder, but I have to flip it over to open it once out of my pocket. I have several pocket knives, but they all seem so cumbersome and heavy sitting loose in my pockets now. I also have a couple sheath folders that I occasionally wear on a belt.

What's your preferred way to carry your everyday folders?

 

[klausinak]

The current job requires me to wear dress trousers daily; my ED knife is a CRKT Delegate, (I don't think they make them anymore), which does most of what I need a knife for w/out being overly bulky. I carry it clipped, hinge up, in my strong-side back pocket. When I can wear jeans, it's generally a Case Muskrat loose in the front pocket.

-Klaus

 

[Raider]

I carry a non exotic plain old Victorinex Hunter (with the scissors and corkscrew) in my left pants pocket. I've used it for about everything that old knife can do over the years. Its not very exiciting but very dependable, just like me.

Charlie

 

[snubbyfan]

I just tuck it in my belt.

Wait a second, I sold my tomahawk.
I still carry my Pawn Shop assisted opener clipped hinge down in my right front pocket.

 

[walkin jack]

I carry my Buck Lite loose in my left front or left hip pocket depending on which pant I'm wearing. I used to carry a Buck 110 and I carried it in a sheath on my belt upside down.

Hit that snap with a downward stroke and catch the knife by the outward edge of the blade when it falls out, Whip it open and catch it by the handle. Used to practice that a lot. Never did cut myself neither.

 

[Arik]

A Benchmade Mini-Griptillian has been my everyday carry for over a year now. I'm a lefty and I clip it inside my front left pocket, hinge down. I can pull it out and open it with one motion. It is natural, quick and positive to operate.

I have a hinge up clip folder, but I have to flip it over to open it once out of my pocket. I have several pocket knives, but they all seem so cumbersome and heavy sitting loose in my pockets now. I also have a couple sheath folders that I occasionally wear on a belt.

What's your preferred way to carry your everyday folders?

Same exact way but different knife

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[A10]

Hinge up clipped on my right front pocket. Slip the right thumb in the pocket with the fingers outside, on the clip. Just slide it right up and it comes into your palm naturally.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I just lost a knife wearing it clipped to my front pocket. It wasn't expensive, and I wasn't really bonded with it, but it was new, and it rankles. I have lost knives before wearing them that way. The only time the clips seem to work for me is if the pants have a leather patch by the corner of the pocket to hold it. So if i can, I'll carry it tip up. If it's a knife I really don't want to lose, though, it's at the bottom of my pocket.

 

[ralph7]

I bought a bunch of cheap gun show folders and I drill a hole in the end and put it on my key chain. I am NEVER without a knife this way.

 

[shouldazagged]

Either a SOG Flash II or a Spyderco Endura, clipped pivot down in right hip pocket. BUT there is always another knife, usually a SAK Super Tinker or Pioneer Farmer, in my left side pocket for the tools.

If I dress up for church or a funeral I leave the large folder at home and add a pocketknife to the left pocket. Most often a Schrade or Cold Steel Country Classic stockman.

 

[5-Shot]

I usually wear a kershaw leek clipped inside my waist band at 3:00 o'clock, hinge up. Other times there's a small knife (several to choose from) in my watch pocket. If I'm in a real good mood there might be a more substantial slip joint in a leather pouch in my right front pocket.

I recently read that pocket knives are to men as ear rings to women. Sounds about right to me. Does this Al Mar make me look fat?

Ed

 

[Llando88]

Lefty, Benchmade Griptilian, clip reversed so carried hinge down.

Clipped in outside left back pocket.

 

[Texas Star]

Invariably, a Swiss Army knife (usually, a Spartan. Occasionally, an Executive or a Camper.) Right front pocket with only a handkerchief in that pocket. Carrying coins, nail clipper, etc. will scratch the knife, so those go in my left pocket.

A lockblade folder goes in a belt pouch. Around home, it's usually a large size Gerber Combat Folder. Otherwise, a Benchmade Model 710, a Puma that looks like a Buck Model 110 with white Micarta scales, or one of several "tactical" items, like a Gerber Spectre or a smaller Gerber A-F. More rarely, a Puma Model 943. Besides the basic spear blade, it has a saw blade that incorporates a bottle opener and a ctg. extractor tip that works as a screwdriver. Has a corkscrew. Stag antler scales, nickel bolster in front. This was a gift from Baron von Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorf when he headed Puma. I treasure it considerably. BTW, the Baron was wounded by US troops in WWII, but seemed not to bear a grudge. I have a similar, slightly longer knife by Henckels, too, but seldom carry it. It was a gift from my late father about a year after I entered the USAF. I wanted something like the German lockblade knife carried in the early Matt Helm books. I used it for years, but it's now largely retired.

SwissChamp Victorinox in black leather SOS pouch in briefcase.

 

[Class III]

I voted "Other".

I carry a custom made 2" blade trout knife in a Kydex sheath on a chain around my neck (It's a copy of the Marble's Trout Knife from the 1930's) or an "Olfa Silver Cutter" razor knife either clipped to the shirt placket or in the shirt pocket. I NEVER carry the Olfa in my pants pocket, sliced my hand open a couple of times to the point of needing stitches. That was lesson well learned.

Class III

 

[RobertJ.]

I have a knock-off of a CRKT that I paid 12 bucks for 8 years ago, and it's still tight and it stays sharp. It's nice and flat, and I carry it hinge up in my right rear pocket. I don't like fighting it when I'm digging my keys from my right front pocket, and this way it's still handy and ready to use. I haven't lost it so far, but if I do, I won't be out much.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

A Buck Knife in a sheath plus a Leatherman or other multi-tool. In years gone by either a Boy Scout or Swiss Army knife in my left front pocket attached to a lanyard fastened on a belt loop.

 

[Mule Packer]

My everyday carry is a stag-handled Case trapper with high carbon blades that rides in the left front pocket of my Wranglers. It does everything from cutting hay bales to opening grain sacks and everything in between.

Whenever one of my grandkids asks if I have my pocket knife with me, the standard reply has always been, "Do I have my pants on?" I guess they've started to learn the importance of carrying a pocket knife, especially around the farm, because I heard my daughter-in-law ask my eight-year old grandson if he had his pocket knife with him. He replied, "Do I have my pants on?" I guess I have to watch what I say from now on.

 

[Twiki357]

The 3.5 blade is hinge up in my strong side back pocket (A whopping $3 at the swap meet.) And this little 2” push button job (i.e. switch blade) clipped to the inside of my suspenders.

 

[Rpg]

I carry a Camllus pen knife made in 1934-35.

Hard to know what I'd want something else for.

 

[Edmo]

I'm one of those goofy knife fanboys and tend to rotate through several different knives during the week. All are carried clipped to my left front pocket (I'm a lefty also), and are carried tip up.

Although it may be as nerdy as the "clip vs magazine" debate, I more commonly hear "tip up" or "tip down" to describe knife orientation in the pocket.

Edmo