After air travel accessing your knife.

[Bufford]

After I get off of the plane I normally take my regular carry knives from the suitcase and put them back on my person after I get to the relatives house or the hotel. If I have to travel far by bus or car from the airport I sometimes grab my spyderco from the suitcase while at the airport.

When and how do you grab your knives after you leave a non knife place, like the plane or non-knife friendly workplace?

 

[Cougar Allen]

 

[T.K.C.]

When I fly, I grab them as soon as I can, usually at the hotel, and put them on me.

 

[Mongo]

I grab mine right after I retrieve my bag at the baggage pickup.

 

[Bors]

After I get off of the plane I normally take my regular carry knives from the suitcase and put them back on my person after I get to the relatives house or the hotel. If I have to travel far by bus or car from the airport I sometimes grab my spyderco from the suitcase while at the airport.

When and how do you grab your knives after you leave a non knife place, like the plane or non-knife friendly workplace?

I carry a delica to the airport and drop it in an outside suitcase pocket. If it get lost it's no big deal. It's easy to recover after I've picked up my luggage.

Bors

 

[Gollnick]

One less-expensive knife rides into the airport in my pocket and goes into my checked bag as I approach the ticket counter. It comes out immediately at bagage claim.

Keep in mind that you may request to be present and observe as your checked bag is inspected and then you may lock it with whatever kind of lock you like before it goes off for its journey.

 

[Don M]

Mine is in my pocket as soon as I get my bag from baggage claim. No need to wait any longer.

 

[Fooj]

Mine is in my pocket as soon as I get my bag from baggage claim. No need to wait any longer.

I travel with a sebenza. I typically retrieve my bags, and when I'm waiting for the rental car bus or the train to my final destination, I retrieve the blade and allen wrench from the bag that I had checked, insert it into the handle that I've carried on, and I'm up and running.

 

[knarfeng]

When and how do you grab your knives after you leave a non knife place, like the plane or non-knife friendly workplace?

Like most of the others responding, I grab them ASAP. At the airport I usually open my bag when I reach either my car or the rental car and retrieve my stuff. Then I can stop feeling naked.

At a non-knife friendly workplace I just take my pocket clip knife and place it deep in my pocket where it won't show. This is pretty rare. (Actually it has never happenned.) The companies I work for or with are all aerospace mfg companies. All of them have a lot more dangerous stuff out on the factory floor than my knife. As long as I'm not waving it around for no particular reason nobody seems to mind if I have one.

 

[KFLEISIG]

I travel with a sebenza. I typically retrieve my bags, and when I'm waiting for the rental car bus or the train to my final destination, I retrieve the blade and allen wrench from the bag that I had checked, insert it into the handle that I've carried on, and I'm up and running.

I LIKE that idea! Just a blade isn't very inviting to a thief. No reason you can't carry-on just a handle. Good thinking.

 

[ashtxsniper]

as soon as I can. I usually dont fly. If my destination is in the U.S. I just drive. Usually the way layovers are I can drive it just as fast. I also can carry my knives and guns on my person and that makes it well worth the extra trouble. I feel so naked without my knives and guns.

 

[victory]

knife and OC in an outside pocket. In my pocket as soon as i get of off the carousel. If i'm traveling with firearms in a state where i can carry, load up in the handicapped stall of the mens room.

 

[Fooj]

I LIKE that idea! Just a blade isn't very inviting to a thief. No reason you can't carry-on just a handle. Good thinking.

Precisely. My sebenza handle has custom machined graphics on it, so not only is it a theft magnet, it's also got sentimental value to me. The detached blade is just a stray piece of metal, of no particular value to anyone but me.

When going through security, I alway stick the handle in the coin tray, and point it out to TSA folks so they don't take too much time discovering that it's not a knife. They always ooo and ahhh at it before they give it back to me.

 

[simms65]

I put my knife and keys (which have a micra on them) in my bag just before security, and then just after, at least grab the knife and reclip it. Even if I don't need the knife, I just feel so much better having it. I could be missing my keys, phone, wallet etc... and still not feel as naked as I do without some sort of blade on me. Too much utility to not have it.
David