Are lanyards dangerous?

[ATwistedStaple]

I don't like lanyards on chopping knives. Just on folders for helping locate/retrieve them.

The handle on a user chopping knife should be pretty heavily textured and you really ought to be wearing some tacky palmed cut resistant gloved. The pair I take camping wouldn't let me throw a knife at my wife if I wanted to...(not that I've tried.)

 

[Helderberg]

I do use one on my camp machete but, now that I think of it, I have never given it a second thought when I swing an axe or a hammer for that matter. I am simply
careful of who or what is in front of me. In a fight I would like to know that the knife would not get away from me so I guess it is job specific for me.

 

[North Arm Knives]

Of course I wouldn't let go of a knife on purpose but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen by accident. You are right that slipping forward is more likely, and I see how this lanyard method would prevent that.

-mike

why would anyone let go of a knife while swinging it in a chopping motion? A lanyard will not prevent you from purposefully flinging it out of your hand, it keeps it from slipping forward out of your closed hand, and prevents your hand from sliding up to the cutting edge. (something a forward wrist tied lanyard can't do)