Belt carry with clip

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Hello,

I have been carrying a folding frame lock blade for a while now, and I decided to get a better knife. I bought a Kershaw Blur with the speedsafe assisted opening. In the instructions, it tells you not to carry your knife on your belt, only in your pocket. I have tried it in my pocket, and I don't like carrying it there. I fear getting things out of my pocket and pulling the knife out with them onto the floor.

Would I be an idiot to carry a speed safe on my belt?

Thanks.
 
I think not.
I carry my main EDC right side on my belt, tip up. All knives, AO'S, frame locks, Axis you name it. I feel that in this position, not only is the knife more accessable but so is my pocket. I park the kinfe in front of my Leatherman Mini-tool. At times, in certain situations, when an exposed knife maybe too much for the sheeple that are present to handle; I slip the knife into my left front pocket. This way the blade is either up against my leatherman or against the back of my pocket. Plus, with Kershaws AO knives you get a safety. Just make sure that the safety isn't adjusted so loosely, that it would be possible for it to disengage itself. I have carried this way for many years. The knives that give me the most issues are the ones with a large or protruding open index.
 
I would not carry it clipped outside your belt, way too easy to get it snagged and torn off, and then your out a knife. Maybe IWB or between your belt and slacks, if you must. I've carried various folders clipped to my left front pocket for years and I can't recall 1 incident where I accidentally pulled it out or it opened in my pocket... And I have carried liner locks, frame locks and backlocks.
 
I've never tried carrying a blade clipped to my belt. But I've read several threads in which people who did snagged them and lost them.

I normally carry my EDC clipped to the rear pocket that does not have my wallet in it. It never snags, is always handy and does not get in the way. No problems sitting, either.
 
Falls off when sitting down about 15% of the time when getting up. Especially when you have an edge on the back of the chair. Then you look silly pickup up your knife in during the boardroom meeting :)
 
The clip is designed to hold a knife at the top of the pocket (inside the pocket) so it is easily accesible. It's a pocket clip, not a belt clip.
 
I usually carry my folders clipped to my front right pocket. Sometimes though, I will carry them inside the waistband, with the clip between the waistband and the belt.
 
Maybe you could carry it between your belt and pants, with the knife clipped to the belt and the blade spine against a belt-loop?

Good luck,
Allen
 
I agree with the "pocket clip not belt clip" statement. Just looks like to me you would be asking for a snagged knife, bent clip, or lost knife by going in this direction.
 
Aside from the pocket clip issue, you say you fear getting things out of your pocket and pulling the knife out onto the floor.

Hmm. Most knives I've carried with pocket clips hold strongly enough to prevent this, but I have had them shift upwards when I dig out a chapstick or Arc AAA. This usually happens with jeans - jeans really too tight for an old fart like me to be wearing, and jeans pockets too tight in construction to get my hand down in there because of the horizontal layout and small size.

Never happens with slacks. Vertical openings leave lots of room. It's not the knife, it's the pants you're wearing. Please don't blame the clip. Wrangler makes fishing jeans with knife pockets, and sizing them accurately may help, too.

As for the kinds of knives I've seen clipped on belts, they generally run less than $25 dollars and look it. Putting them on your belt is socially a show off, and flaunts societal norms of knife carry.

Pocket knives go in pockets or sheaths.
 
Maybe I just need to get rid of the clip then and just get a belt sheath then.

I don't wear jeans, I wear what I call kacki pants (when I can't find a pair, thats what I yell across the house to my wife what I need. Pants or slacks, I don't know what the difference is. They are Cabela's 7 pocket hiker pants, I have enough to wear a differnt pair every day for a week). I guess to elaborate on the problem, I carry my keys in my left pocket, and my wallet in my right pocket. I can't sit on my wallet any more, and when I pull out my wallet, it gets between the knife and the pocket sometimes. THe pants have a knife pocket. Maybe I should just retire the SAK that I keep there, or just find another pocket for it (I use the screw drivers on it, as well as the small blade for opening boxes with something I might potentially damage with a large blade inside, or for prying things I could break a tip off of a blade. Basically abusive things.).

Thanks for all the replies.
 
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