Do lanyard holes or thong tubes add anything to a knife?

Kevin McGovern said:
I put a hidden lanyard tube in most of my small drop point hunters. If they want it, it's there. If not, it isn't as noticeable.

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I really like that!!
 
I carry knife only when I go to fishing . And because there I use knive offen , I like lanyard and especially orange color paracord to hang knive on tree around me . Orange color have great visibility and if I drop knive in grass or if it s night ..........But now I have orange handle and I don t think that I need orange lanyrad , maybe black one from paracord :)

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Natlek said:
I carry knife only when I go to fishing . And because there I use knive offen , I like lanyard and especially orange color paracord to hang knive on tree around me . Orange color have great visibility and if I drop knive in grass or if it s night ..........But now I have orange handle and I don t think that I need orange lanyrad , maybe black one from paracord :)

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What is that insert? How is it attached?
 
A lot of my knives get lanyard tubes or sometimes just a hole with a chamfer on the ends. Many don't, but I normally will on a necker or small belt knife. Part of it is aesthetic I'm sure, but a lanyard is also very utilitarian, most of the uses having already been covered in this thread.
 
It's a funny question, because I never use lanyard holes, but I prefer knives that have them when shopping for fixed blades. It's kind of like the roof rack on our cars. I always say I want one, but can't ever remember using one.
 
Lanyards are very popular and many, many go on knives. Beads and skulls on the lanyard are very common.

Personally I do not like them, they tend to catch onto things.

But if I am on a boat, float tube or on the water at all and using a knife I will use one.
 
Natlek said:
Stainless , cut from round tube and glued with epoxy .Three times I cut pieces until I hit a real pair [emoji106]

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my mind can't work out how you get that half dish shape from cutting a piece off a round tube [emoji15]
w.t. anderson said:
I use lanyards on most of my knives, even the small ones, by slipping my little finger through the loop and tightening it down a bit with a lanyard bead when using the knife. This way, if I need to, I can let the knife drop and dangle from my little finger in order to use my hand to grab something quickly or to climb without losing easy access to the knife (probably just temporarily on the ground, but could be permanently over water). A quick flip of the wrist and it's right back in my hand, ready for use. It also keeps me from repeatedly putting the knife down and picking it up again during complex tasks (and I don't have to keep saying "where did I put that damn thing?")
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In the simplest method, just glue the tube in the channel made with a matching size cylinder bit and saw/grind it flush. You can also pre-cut the tubing at an angle to get less to grind away.
 
On guardless skinners I like a lanyard sized to my hand so I can slip the fingers through it and it sits on the web of my thumb and won't allow the hand to move past the grip. Sometimes a guard if not shaped perfectly gets in the way of a reverse grip when trying to do certain things, this keeps my hand safe from potential slipping but doesn't hinder how I grab the knife.
 
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