Clip direction-Which do you prefer?

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MrSteve

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Greetings from the "left" coast! I've been lurking for a while now, and must say that this is an "interesting" group. Anyway, I just picked up a blackout, and it, like my benchmade have the clips on the "wrong" end. My first clip was a cold steel with the clip on the rear (away from the pivot point of the blade)which seemed to me to be where it belongs. With the clip the other way, like on the blackout and the benchmade, you must reposition the knife in your hand between removing it from your pocket and opening it. Know what I mean? I think that spyderco clips in the same as cold steel. Which do you all prefer?
 
I prefer my clips sitting in a box in my closet. Clips are part of an evil conspiracy designed to get us to lose our knives, so that we may buy another, just to lose it the same way. A vicious circle!

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James Segura
San Francisco, CA
 
stjames, i'm still trying to lose my knives i guess
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i used to love tip up, but i have gotten very used to some tip down. for iwb carry, i like tip up, for front pocket i like tip down and rear pocket when i carry like that, i like tip up. you'll get used to whatever you use. and do a search on the subject, this comes up every couple of months.

what do you mean by "interesting"? are you referring to vampire gerbil?
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Actually i love clips, and ive never come close to loosing any of my knives. I prefer "tip up" carry. Ive never had any of my blades disengage in my pocket as a result of tip up carry either. My benchmades make me mad because their all tip down carry so i have to switch them in my hand before use. Oh well, life will go on.
Andrew
 
Lose the clip, put in a fob. No losses, quick retrieval, stylish
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. Make it long enough and you have a wrist leash, if you work where dropping your knife is an issue.

All fobbed up and ready to go...

RLR
 
I prefer tip-up. It just seems more natural for me. Although I will admit I never really gave tip down a serious try. I have tried it before and found it very awkward.

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Johnny
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I like tip up carry best because I carry my knife in my back pocket. I think that tip down might be better if you carry your knife in your front pocket. Its really all a matter of opinion though.

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Fix it right the first time, use Baling Wire !
 
I prefer tip up with a fob.

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"Those who trade essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
 
MrSteve,

Welcome to the "interesting group"!
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I carry both ways, but I prefer tip up. Retrieving and opening are a little more natural with the tip up carry. The tip down is a compromise for safety.

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Travis Autry
My knives are just like rabbits---they keep multiplying!!
 
Well,
What fun is a Forum without a little dissension anyway?
I used to love tip up carry and absolutely despised the idea of a tip down folder, until I started carrying one for serious evaluation.
The more I carried it, the more I realized I was doing extra work on the tip up blade when deploying and the actual deployment was slower for me. I had to reach down further in my pocket to get an adequate grip on the knife to deploy it and I had to execute a grip change after I got the knife out of my pocket. Bad news. My grip doesn't really change as much on the tip down knives when getting them out of my pocket. I did side by side comparison's of the two modes of carry one day when I had some time to kill and sure enough, the tip up was slower to draw for me than tip down. And more uncomfortable too. I've found that, for me, I can get a tip down blade out of my pocket easier in the sitting position than a tip up blade also.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
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If it's stupid but works, then it isn't stupid!
 
Depends on the knife.

If your talking about an Emerson Commander - Low Ride Tip Up

All others - High Ride Tip Down.

I find with the clip anchored under the pivot on a tip down knife I can draw and open in in one smooth motion. But why bother when you can carry a Commander and it will be open before it leaves your pocket?
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Later,
John

P.S. I support LEATHER fobs on utility knives. These are the only fobs that I support.

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Skeleton walks into a bar and and says "give me a beer and a mop."
 
My experience is the same as Misque's.

I started off carrying tip up. When I switched to tip down carry, it felt weird at first. Eventually, it started to feel less awkward, and I realized that the draw was faster as well as more comfortable.

Two additional advantages to tip down carry are that you won't cut your fingers if the knife opens in your pocket and you can "drop" open knives with blade holes.

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Cerulean

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain? - Blake
 
I used to carry tipdown all the time but since they`ve come out with locks you know won`t open in your pocked like the axis on BM and the rolling lock on REKAT I like the tip up carry better. I can get the knife into action quicker.

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janefromnc

walker
 
Knives with opening hole: tip down
Knives with thumbstud/disk: tip up
Other one bladed folders with clip: tip down

I forgot: when I get money for sebenza no clip


[This message has been edited by Tommi (edited 01-29-2000).]
 
I prefer knives with the clips on the rear and like to carry them tip up in back poket.
I used Spyderco "Dragonfly" such way until lost it at some "black" day during balloon flight.
BUT IT IS MY OUN FAULT - ALWAYS USE LANYARDS IN SUCH SITUATUON !!!
No big regret - small sized "Dragonfly" was not fitted satiafactory in my hands.
I replaced it by Spyderco "Calypso Jr." with the clip at the pivot and now have to carry it tip dawn in front pocket because it is quite awkward to use it from back pocket.
As result I'm looking now for small good quality folder with drop point blade and clip on the rear - maybe for Katz "Black Kat", but knives dealers in my country wonder about Katz.
 
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