Do you sit on your Knife?

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EDCanAdamas

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Sometimes when my side pockets are too full with junk from work in the garage or shop, my ZT 562 gets relegated to my left rear pocket. I have sat on this knife a few times when getting into my vehicle or while taking a break on a chair. So far, it's held up fine.

So my question to you guys (and girls) on blade forums is this: If you don't normally put your knife in your back pocket, but have a few times, how did the knife do? I wonder how certain knifes do under the "sit on it" test. Would the scales break off of a SAK? How about the wood scales on a Buck 110 (though they are pretty thick)? Any epic knife failures after it was subjected to the strain of being underneath your full weight? :D
 
No.
I'm sure once or twice won't hurt anything, but my paranoia just can't justify having weight on it.
I'm sure it would bend overtime.
Mess with the centering and such.
Especially a thin knife like a RAT-2 or a Slimline trapper.
 
Yes. My knives stay in my rear right pocket. As of late, it has been a Cold Steel Tanto Recon 1 in XHP. The knife is fine, both centering and lockup. Although I don't buy knives to be babied. I keep my pocket knives there, because I am right handed. My right front pocket is 100% the property of a speed strip of 158gr .357 hollow points. My revolver sits in an IWB holster behind my right hip. The right rear pocket makes for very comfortable carry of nearly every pocket knife out there.
 
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Nope, I don't even sit on my wallet,,,strange I know. I pretty much keep everything in my front two pockets.
 
EDCanAdamas said:
Sometimes when my side pockets are too full with junk from work in the garage or shop, my ZT 562 gets relegated to my left rear pocket. I have sat on this knife a few times when getting into my vehicle or while taking a break on a chair. So far, it's held up fine.

So my question to you guys (and girls) on blade forums is this: If you don't normally put your knife in your back pocket, but have a few times, how did the knife do? I wonder how certain knifes do under the "sit on it" test. Would the scales break off of a SAK? How about the wood scales on a Buck 110 (though they are pretty thick)? Any epic knife failures after it was subjected to the strain of being underneath your full weight? :D
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The lbs per square inch is very low. Besides, if your knife has a pocket clip, and you clip it up against the outside seam of your back pocket, you won't even really be sitting on your knife.
 
I won't sit on traditionals, just because of their nature of being less thick than modern folders. I will sit on fixed blades or even folders with g10, my fear is actually having an accident where the blade opens and slices off my buttcheek.
 
I never ever leave a knife in my back pocket; I'm concerned that I'll damage my knife, no matter how tough it is.
 
I keep a William Henry B7-FT in the coin compartment of my wallet and I carry my wallet in my rear pocket. So I guess you could say that I sit on my knife. Haven't done any damage to it yet and I've been carrying it that way for a very long time.
 
I don't often see many (or even any) properly made traditional knives that have a bend in the handle, they seem to hold up fine. I've seen TONS of cheap shell handled traditionals with bends/ dints in the handles which obviously look like they've been sat on most of their life, but even then, they mostly hold up fine.
I don't have much experience with moderns, but I would have thought they would hold up pretty well, though they could have more handle flex from being longer, just depends on the design.
 
I don't sit on my knife regularly, but I have a large enough posterior that the weight is quite distributed so I'm not worried about durability issues. ;)
 
I'm not a fan of anything in the back pockets, largely because I find it really uncomfortable. If I can't clip my folder to my right front, then I prefer waistband carry.
 
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Sometimes when my side pockets are too full with junk from work in the garage or shop, my ZT 562 gets relegated to my left rear pocket. I have sat on this knife a few times when getting into my vehicle or while taking a break on a chair. So far, it's held up fine.

So my question to you guys (and girls) on blade forums is this: If you don't normally put your knife in your back pocket, but have a few times, how did the knife do? I wonder how certain knifes do under the "sit on it" test. Would the scales break off of a SAK? How about the wood scales on a Buck 110 (though they are pretty thick)? Any epic knife failures after it was subjected to the strain of being underneath your full weight? :D
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I will worry more about hurting my butt than hurting my knife...
 
I don't sit on any knife.

I don't even carry them in my pockets. It gets thrown into a small nylon knife pouch that I put in my tool bag.
 
I almost exclusively carry in my back right pocket, tip-down, clipped up against the outside seam of the pocket. Keeps the spine of the blade firmly nested against a seam, so no chance of it opening on me. And because it's against the outside seam, it never actually takes any weight. I've carried G10 Spydies from the size of the Military down to the Native, and even a DF2 there, and never had a problem with bending. Granted, I don't wear skinny jeans (for my sake and the rest of humanity), so my pockets have some room to them. Maybe if I were more hipster it'd be a problem. But then again, I wouldn't be able to squeeze a knife into ANY pocket at that point.
 
Unless you are pushing close to half a ton it's going to be very hard to damage most modern, decent to well built folding knives. As was said in #6 the PSI is very low while sitting, you have the area of both glutes plus part of your legs holding up a little bit more than half your body weight so there will be very little direct pressure on your knife. Especially when you add the muscle/ fat factor in that area. That is an added relief.
 
I have one of my folders in my back pocket about 50% of the time and I am a fat tubbalard. No damage yet.
 
I carried a Hinderer in my back pocket for years. I could sit on that thing for decades, and never have to worry about it.
 
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