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This is one of those "does anyone else do this?" threads...
I live in a rural community on a farm-like property. I have a half dozen really nice fixed blade knives suitable for hunting/utility work that I rotate from day to day while working around my own place. All of these knives have blades ranging from 2.5" to 5", and all work around my place very well. I also carry a FB when I leave the property and travel locally about town. Since this was a farming community, seeing a FB on someone's belt is not unheard of, but this is also a commuter bedroom community, and so you don't see that many fixed blades being sported around town these days.
I always like to blend in as much as I can, so I don't go out of my way to call attention to myself, especially in these times to a big honker of a knife dangling at my belt. I've noticed that most of my FB knives stand out. That is, they are highly visible not necessarily because they are so big, but because <i>their sheaths are so visible!</i> Most of the sheaths are really nice light colored (tan or red) leather and are easily seen against the usually darker colored pants and belt I tend to wear. Blue jeans are especially problematic because these sheaths stand out in high contrast to the color of the denim!
So I find myself sometimes unstrapping that beautiful red leather sheath, and strapping on either my Dozier K1 or my Posner skinner because the sheaths are small, dark, and more or less invisible (though not at all concealed) especially tucked right behind my cell phone on my belt. From the front, you can't even see the knife, and from the back, the cell phone stands out more than the knife. Only from the right side can the sheaths be easily seen from a distance, and again with the cell phone right in front of them, no one seems to notice.
Do any of the rest of you do this? Do you choose which knife to wear on a given day (or to a given place) because it doesn't stand out so much in its sheath? Or maybe you do the opposite, you choose the knife because the sheath stands out so well?
I live in a rural community on a farm-like property. I have a half dozen really nice fixed blade knives suitable for hunting/utility work that I rotate from day to day while working around my own place. All of these knives have blades ranging from 2.5" to 5", and all work around my place very well. I also carry a FB when I leave the property and travel locally about town. Since this was a farming community, seeing a FB on someone's belt is not unheard of, but this is also a commuter bedroom community, and so you don't see that many fixed blades being sported around town these days.
I always like to blend in as much as I can, so I don't go out of my way to call attention to myself, especially in these times to a big honker of a knife dangling at my belt. I've noticed that most of my FB knives stand out. That is, they are highly visible not necessarily because they are so big, but because <i>their sheaths are so visible!</i> Most of the sheaths are really nice light colored (tan or red) leather and are easily seen against the usually darker colored pants and belt I tend to wear. Blue jeans are especially problematic because these sheaths stand out in high contrast to the color of the denim!
So I find myself sometimes unstrapping that beautiful red leather sheath, and strapping on either my Dozier K1 or my Posner skinner because the sheaths are small, dark, and more or less invisible (though not at all concealed) especially tucked right behind my cell phone on my belt. From the front, you can't even see the knife, and from the back, the cell phone stands out more than the knife. Only from the right side can the sheaths be easily seen from a distance, and again with the cell phone right in front of them, no one seems to notice.
Do any of the rest of you do this? Do you choose which knife to wear on a given day (or to a given place) because it doesn't stand out so much in its sheath? Or maybe you do the opposite, you choose the knife because the sheath stands out so well?
