I have read several posts that make note that this or that particular folder is tip up carry or tip down carry. I have a Benchmade and a CRKT and both are tip down. This works well for me, but is there an advantage to carrying a folder with the blade tip up?
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Folders, tip up or tip down?
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Personally, I like tip up. People will say that there is a chance of the knife opening in the pocket, but unless the knife is too poorly made for me to carry at all, that chance is too small to be relevant.
In any case, I don't like tip up to the point that I religiously exclude tip down knives, and I find people who are fanatically devoted to one or the other to be sorta silly.
In any case, I don't like tip up to the point that I religiously exclude tip down knives, and I find people who are fanatically devoted to one or the other to be sorta silly.
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Brian, I am sorta silly, but I have to disagree anyway. Besides the saftey issue, I find it a 'more natural draw' placing my thumb and fore-finger on the pivot and drawing the knife. The handle seems to fall into my palm. On tip-up models, it seems like more of my hand has to go into my front pocket, making me look like Comrade Chang in the 'magazine aisle,' if you catch my drift. I did almost fire an auto this way, however.--OKG
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Mr. laredo,
Welcome to bladeforums. We're pleased to have you.
Above the list of posts for this and any other thread, sort of off to the right is a link labeled "Search". You might try using this as the topic of tip-up vs. tip-down has been covered at great length.
It says in the Bible, "Let your folding knives be carried tip-down. For anything else is from the evil one." (Maybe I have a few words wrong there. My memory isn't always perfect. But it says something like that.)
Keep thinking W!
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Welcome to bladeforums. We're pleased to have you.
Above the list of posts for this and any other thread, sort of off to the right is a link labeled "Search". You might try using this as the topic of tip-up vs. tip-down has been covered at great length.
It says in the Bible, "Let your folding knives be carried tip-down. For anything else is from the evil one." (Maybe I have a few words wrong there. My memory isn't always perfect. But it says something like that.)
Keep thinking W!
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Tip up. That's ONE of the MANY reasons that I like Cold Steel folders so much.
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BTW...I think this also was one of my 1st questions here on BladeForums!.
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BTW...I think this also was one of my 1st questions here on BladeForums!.
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I liked tip up better, but tip down is no problem once you've gotten used to it. Changing from one to the other is a little wierd for a few days but both are user friendly. I think tip up is a little more natural and a little faster but not much.
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Personally, I think that tip-up is safer for liner locks. That is, if you carry it in your front pocket--'cause that way you can keep the spine of the blade against the side of the pocket and the knife won't open up. With tip-down carry, sure, you won't cut your hand if your liner lock opens up, but guess what's down there that you just might slice? Ouch. Personally, I think liner locks try to solve a problem that doesn't exist. My tip-up Axis lock knife is perfect. And lockbacks--the classic and standard--are fine tip-down when they have a Spydie hole.
I like tip not pointing at me carry
seriously though I like tip up because you don't have to rotate the knife to get it in the proper position. I have so many knives with either tip up or tip down though that I feel the transistion to be a bit strange. I would probally be doing better if I could stick to one knife. The LCC will probally have that pleasure though.
Until I find a better one anyway.
BM's axis locking knives with tip up carry aren't a bad choice either.
seriously though I like tip up because you don't have to rotate the knife to get it in the proper position. I have so many knives with either tip up or tip down though that I feel the transistion to be a bit strange. I would probally be doing better if I could stick to one knife. The LCC will probally have that pleasure though.
BM's axis locking knives with tip up carry aren't a bad choice either.
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I prefer tip up carry. I use Emerson knives almost exclusively, and their Wave opening feature will only work with tip up carry. As far as the knife opening in the pocket, I don't see how this can happen if it is carried in the outside corner of the front pocket as the blade is trapped between the knife and the edge of the pocket therefore keeps it closed.
As far as your favorite AFCK being tip down only, you can remedy this. I own a BM CQC7, and it came tip down only. I work at a place with a machine shop, and using the pocket clip as a pattern, myself and our machinist drilled and tapped the other end of the handle for the screws. If I remember correctly, the tap we used was #2-56. Discountknives.com sells extra BM clips and screws for $5 a set. That's one of the advantages of G-10, although it will work for aluminum handles too.
If you notice, the latest BMs come tip up[940, 710] and the 720 provides a choice.
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As far as your favorite AFCK being tip down only, you can remedy this. I own a BM CQC7, and it came tip down only. I work at a place with a machine shop, and using the pocket clip as a pattern, myself and our machinist drilled and tapped the other end of the handle for the screws. If I remember correctly, the tap we used was #2-56. Discountknives.com sells extra BM clips and screws for $5 a set. That's one of the advantages of G-10, although it will work for aluminum handles too.
If you notice, the latest BMs come tip up[940, 710] and the 720 provides a choice.
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Tip down. I've used tip up before, and it frustrates me, but I still like tip up knives if they are well made.
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It seems me, that it is very "personal" subject.
I have 4 folders, 1 relatively small: Spyderco "Calypso Jr." (tip down) and 3 relatively large: Gerber "E-Z-Out" (tip down), Buck "CrossLock" (tip down), Cold Steel "Voyager" (tip up) and from time to time I perform "draw-up tests"
To "activate" all of them from "Position #1: in a pants pocket and clipped" I should make 3 movements by my hand: draw-up, rotate (for tip-down) or "regrab" (for relatively large Voyager to "fix" thumb properly on thumbstud) and open. And it is not depends on front or back pocket.
To "activate" tip-down knives from "Position #2: in a front waistcoat pocket and clipped" I need make only 2 movements: draw-up and open. "Activating" of tip-up Voyager from this "Position" is so awkward that I even do not want to discuss it.
Finally, intermediate result of my "draw-up tests":
ALL SMALL KNIVES SHOULD BE TIP-UP !!!
ALL LARGE KNIVES SHOULD BE TIP-DOWN !!!
Regards,
MIKLE
I have 4 folders, 1 relatively small: Spyderco "Calypso Jr." (tip down) and 3 relatively large: Gerber "E-Z-Out" (tip down), Buck "CrossLock" (tip down), Cold Steel "Voyager" (tip up) and from time to time I perform "draw-up tests"
To "activate" all of them from "Position #1: in a pants pocket and clipped" I should make 3 movements by my hand: draw-up, rotate (for tip-down) or "regrab" (for relatively large Voyager to "fix" thumb properly on thumbstud) and open. And it is not depends on front or back pocket.
To "activate" tip-down knives from "Position #2: in a front waistcoat pocket and clipped" I need make only 2 movements: draw-up and open. "Activating" of tip-up Voyager from this "Position" is so awkward that I even do not want to discuss it.
Finally, intermediate result of my "draw-up tests":
ALL SMALL KNIVES SHOULD BE TIP-UP !!!
ALL LARGE KNIVES SHOULD BE TIP-DOWN !!!
Regards,
MIKLE
I must admit my experience is limited, but I love the tip up carry. it comes into my hand with the handle in the "using" position,which i don't see happening with a tip-down knife. Plus, the clip (on my ATS55 spydie delica) provides a wonderful place for my index finger to go while the knife is in use...
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This is a topic that has absolutely never made one lick of sense to me. The blade folds into the handle, right? Then what difference does it make how the knife is carried in your pocket?? Personally, my pocket knives usually end up laying horizontally in the bottom of my pocket.
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True, so very true. However, sometimes bad things happen. Like; the knife folds up and you have nothing to "play" with, or your fingers lay on the bottom of your pocket
Personaly, I prefer tip up (some fingers more or less, what the ... On the other hand, I only have one Peeweee
True, so very true. However, sometimes bad things happen. Like; the knife folds up and you have nothing to "play" with, or your fingers lay on the bottom of your pocket
Personaly, I prefer tip up (some fingers more or less, what the ... On the other hand, I only have one Peeweee
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I don't think that once you learn both ways to draw your knife that it makes much of a difference. I think I marginally prefer tip down carry because my first two knives were that way and I got used to it.
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i carry mine with the tip down, i did get cut once with my kershaw blizzard it was on the outside of my pocket tip down it somehow opened a bit and when i lifted my hand it got me, lesson learned i always carry them on the inside now
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ya i have contortions and i play the games i have alcholic seizures when i'm driving ya sure i hit one of those and knocked my front tire off into outer space and i kinda got angry cause the cops came and through me in the paddy wagon and beat me to death hey ya got to have a lot of knives ?? ya i like salads.... with baked potatos cream cheese and chives ya i'd like salad right now why do ya have something in mind
