The look of the clip on the Vulcan VL-03 is rather cool, with the 3 adjacent triangles cut out of the metal. But for practicality, I find the clip obtrusive. It's too big. It has a large cumbersome 90 degree angle on it. And frankly those cutouts are a vulnerability for stress fractures.
Case in point, by merely providing strong thumb pressure on the clip, mine fractured in 2 places. Thankfully alternating locations that kept the clip intact... but it just looked unsightly. SOG has a clip replacement service and you can fill out of a form to request one. They'd had the Vulcan VL-03 in the list and I requested it repeatedly at ultimately 2 different addresses and never got a response. Finally, I wrote directly to the contact email address and they told me "sorry, but that clip is no longer available." Shortly thereafter it was removed from the list. So, I looked around to see what other SOG knives might have compatible clips. Sure enough it looked like the Terminus XR LTE would be a good candidate.
So much better! Unfortunately this clip ends up making contact with the scales at the back edge, thereby defeating the deep pocket carry of the original clip. But that's not a major concern. The feel of the knife is just so much better with this far less obtrusive clip.
Case in point, by merely providing strong thumb pressure on the clip, mine fractured in 2 places. Thankfully alternating locations that kept the clip intact... but it just looked unsightly. SOG has a clip replacement service and you can fill out of a form to request one. They'd had the Vulcan VL-03 in the list and I requested it repeatedly at ultimately 2 different addresses and never got a response. Finally, I wrote directly to the contact email address and they told me "sorry, but that clip is no longer available." Shortly thereafter it was removed from the list. So, I looked around to see what other SOG knives might have compatible clips. Sure enough it looked like the Terminus XR LTE would be a good candidate.
So much better! Unfortunately this clip ends up making contact with the scales at the back edge, thereby defeating the deep pocket carry of the original clip. But that's not a major concern. The feel of the knife is just so much better with this far less obtrusive clip.