Halloween Knife Scare, Need Your Help

matgarsmi

matgarsmi

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So, last night was Halloween and I had a particularly good Daryl from the Walking Dead costume. I confidently put my SMF in my pocket and headed out to the bars to have a great time. Pushing my way through the crowd to the bar I walk past a guy and felt my knife slide out of my pocket. In a panic I searched the ground only to find nothing. I quickly turned around and saw that my SMF had accidentally clipped itself onto the guys back pocket and was just dangling there. He was completely oblivious to the fact. I reached over yanked it back and put back INTO my pocket where it was safe for the rest of the night. Crisis averted.

But here is where I need your help. This incident got me thinking that I need to buy a new folder specifically to take to bars. I tend to get rowdy, so it needs to be cheap and replaceable. I've had a tenacious and a skyline but I'm thinking I would like to try something new.

What are your suggestions?
 
Dude, I hope when you say "I tend to get rowdy" in this context you mean that you dance wild or something and might loose the thing in the debauchery. And not running around drunkenly pulling knives on bar patrons. I assume you mean the former.

In that case, I think replaceability is the key. For that I'd chose a "big box store" knife. Maybe a Buck or something that if lost, can be found quickly at just about any retail store right away...for just a few bucks...no pun intended.

The funny thing here is that the only clip knife I have ever lost was one that I un-clipped at a business meeting (with nuns no less...no lie) and it slid out of my slacks I guess. Somewhere out there I am imagining a nun pruning rosebushes with my knife.
 
I'd say just get a SAK. I can't foresee a knife application that happens in a bar that it wouldn't take care of. Heck, you can stab olives with the toothpick. No clip, deep in tour pocket, easily replaceable, and not pricey.

Leave the "big" and/or "good" knife in the car....you are not going to use it in the bar anyway.
 
Spyderco Ladybug.

If you're drinking and getting rowdy, you don't need anything more.
 
Wenger bartender's knife

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As much as I like my SAK, and agree 100% that there is nothing it can't do, I still prefer folders with pocket clips. It just makes carrying so much easier for me. My SAK feels awkward unless its in my back pocket, but I keep my wallet and my phone in my back pockets and no matter how much I try I just can't get used to switching them to the front. So I tend to stick with clipped knives.
 
matgarsmi said:
So, last night was Halloween and I had a particularly good Daryl from the Walking Dead costume. I confidently put my SMF in my pocket and headed out to the bars to have a great time. Pushing my way through the crowd to the bar I walk past a guy and felt my knife slide out of my pocket. In a panic I searched the ground only to find nothing. I quickly turned around and saw that my SMF had accidentally clipped itself onto the guys back pocket and was just dangling there. He was completely oblivious to the fact. I reached over yanked it back and put back INTO my pocket where it was safe for the rest of the night. Crisis averted.

But here is where I need your help. This incident got me thinking that I need to buy a new folder specifically to take to bars. I tend to get rowdy, so it needs to be cheap and replaceable. I've had a tenacious and a skyline but I'm thinking I would like to try something new.

What are your suggestions?
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Don't bring a knife to a bar at all if you're going to get rowdy and use it on someone, or if there's even a chance of that happening.
 
matgarsmi said:
As much as I like my SAK, and agree 100% that there is nothing it can't do, I still prefer folders with pocket clips. It just makes carrying so much easier for me. My SAK feels awkward unless its in my back pocket, but I keep my wallet and my phone in my back pockets and no matter how much I try I just can't get used to switching them to the front. So I tend to stick with clipped knives.
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Well, if ease of carry outweighs functionality and risk of loss for you, then, it sounds like a less expensive "tactical" is what you want. My default answer for the "less expensive 'tactical'" question is something from the Kabar Dozier Folding Hunter line.
 
My suggestion, unclip the knife and let it settle into your pocket.
 
Ontario Rat 1 is a hell of a knife for the money.

As others suggest though, a rowdy drunk at the bar with a knife is not good....
 
i suggest you stay out of a bar if your worried about having a knife while getting rowdy.
 
Honestly, I stay away from bars at this point in my life. But when I do go, I dont carry anything more than a SAK.
 
Actually, my Micro-Recon is the only no-clip knife I can carry. Every other no-clip ends up digging into my leg when I sit.

It's also very light. I can't imagine what need you would have of a knife in a bar, but if you do feel the need, then small and light are advantages.
 
I should clarify that by rowdy I don't mean fighting. To me a knife is just a simple tool. And I have had to use it in bars before. Just the other day, they were serving ribs and I used my knife to cut them up into more manageable pieces.

I do like the idea of a champagne saber, though.
 
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