Blur: Tip Up or Down?

I carry mine right-hand, tip-up. Just about the only folders I don't mind tip-down are my Military and my Skylines.
 
bean_sips said:
I carry mine right-hand, tip-up. Just about the only folders I don't mind tip-down are my Military and my Skylines.
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I echo this. I like tip up since the blade will deploy into the seam of my pocket in the unlikely event that it happens (it has before). I can also employ the blade faster with a tip up carry. The only blades I tend to carry tip down are those on which it is the only option and on Skylines, since they carry deeper that way.
 
I have one knife that only has tip down right-hand carry. I use tip up for everything else, but am wondering if that's such a good idea for the de-assisted Blur since the detente is so weak. I also have never heard the arguments that tip down is safer, and would like to understand that. I like tip up only because it places the knife in an intuitively better position for quick opening in emergencies. For right-hand carry it also places the spine of the blade against the seam of the pocket helping to keep it closed. Tip down puts the blade forward and I would think that the most dangerous place to get cut is the femoral artery. Does tip down carry make that more or less likely? I don't know, but it would be interesting to find out.
 
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