Have you ever looked around the room and noticed other people carring knives ?

I live about 100 miles north of Mark (MJS) and I must report the same thing....not that many clips visible. I've run into only a few in expected places such as gunshops/sporting goods stores.
 
Well I have seen them everywhere, stores, resturantes, Go-Quad Races, and concerts and the vast majority are the good ones (spyderco cold steel, and benchmade)

but the weirdest time was at a SKA show where I thought that I was the only one carrying a knife (one rescue, one neckknife and the CS mini-pal on my keychain) and I ran into another person and noticed the stainless steel clip of his spyderco on his pocket so I walk up to him and start a small conversation with him about knifes
 
I notice knives all the time. Many times I've guessed what type of knife someone is carrying by the clip, but I have begun to notice the imprint standard pocket knife. A SAK is easy to notice in someones front pocket, and multi-tools are obvious. Gotta be carefull, though,...I imagine that being caught staring at a strangers front pocket could create an uncomfortable situation, to say the least!

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Allow me to expand on my previous statement:

It seems like when i'm in the suburbs, nobody has knives and when i'm in the inner city, everyone's are consealed (illegally) or they are businessmen with nothing but a pen.

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this has turned out to be very interesting.
i notice theres not alot of talk from the south west. is there anyone out there carring knives at all? i must remark on the business men carring concealed. anyone know what they are carring? or are they totally discrete about it.

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Here in NYC, it's a rare sight. Most pocket clips are beepers. And all fixed blades are illegal. The only ones you see are on LEO's and some of my friends who are also knifeknuts.

When I do see one, it's usually a Spyderco or Benchmade.

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Jerry O: from what source is your info on all fix blades deemed illegal in NYC? I do not recall any lines in the State Penal Code or in NYC Administrative Codes that reflects this. As an example,posted above at the walk thru metal detector of the visitors entrance at 1 Police Plaza a sign clearly states that: "Possession of a knife with a blade length of greater than 4 " is grounds for arrest". The 4" measurement is a given.

Speaking of LEOs, I' ve seen quite a few carrying clip on folders recently but unfortunately most of them are POSs. I do however see too many times the bottom of their holsters flashing while carrying off duty. Tsk, tsk.

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Nakano

BTW Jerry, is a congratulations in order here? There is a curious pic in a recent knife mag showing a gentlemen showing off his favorite carry knives.

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sometimes i'll see a friend of a friend at a friends' house(wow), and i'll notice that they have a knife so i'll approach them and ask them if i can see their knives. Most of the time (actually all of the time), its some 5 dollar knife and they will tell me what a great knife it is and when i show them one of my knives, usually a BM ,they dont seem to care much. Now when i pull out my Fully serrated CS XL (5")Voyager Tanto point they cant get enough of it. Go figure
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Oh yeah! one day i saw a guy walking downtown with a Battle mistress on his belt, which was later confiscated by the cops...BUMMER
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I saw a guy with a broken Spyderco clipped to his pocket. Half the blade had snapped off. Other than that, just people with SAK's.
 
Here in MN, I mostly see Leathermans on peoples belts. There is the occasional pocket clip though.

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In my neck of the woods you don't see clips. You see the odd Leatherman/etc. or buck .
I am kind of looked at as an odd ball at work because I carry a folder in an office enviroment. Doesn't bother me much.
 
Here in NV I very rarely see any clips but I do see a few belt pouches with leathermans and Bucks or other similar knives on there belts.
 
No clips here.

You cannot buy knife with clip here unless you get CS or Spyderco. And they are so expensive here that no one is buying them. I can honestly say that I am the only one in our county (district) carrying knife with pocket clip.

The other person carrying knife is my girlfriend (BM mini Stryker in her purse).

And no neck knives either - people just do not know them.

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I have a habbit of looking at someone's pocket to see if they are carring a knife. I am a cop and it comes with the job. I have seen very few people around here(philadelphia area) carring a knife. But when I was in school(west Virginia) I saw most people carring something. Also I have found that most people will show me their knife when I ask what kind they carry.

Rich
 
it sounds to me like the leatherman and buck tool people have out done us clip people buy a good bit. its too bad that they havent came to realize that the tool is the tool and then you need and easier access knife as well. many of these people use the knife on the tool but just how practical is that really.....you generally have to unfold the
particular tool then open the blade. when you need a knife you just plainly need a knife. those people carring cheap knives carry them cause thats all they want out of a knife. when you get into our world you have much higher thoughts on what that knife should do or can do. though i do not agree with the cheap knives much i have to understand there point if i loose it so what.
if i break it so what. but yet wouldnt it be nice to introduce these people to the real knives of todays market...........it gets more then agervateing at times when a man walks up to our table and looks at the BMs,MTs,CSs ETC. and then walk to the far end and spends 5.00 on what he thinks will do his work best. (yes to all of you saying mark sells cheap knives) anyways we sell them cause of the profit margine and the amount of them we sell in unbelievable. but to these people spending 30 50 and more well ok alot more on a knife. this is just plainly crazy to them. simply unheard of but yet it is vey common they just dont know it.

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I was shopping with my girlfriend an was inside Express when I noticed another guy with his girlfiend there also with the telltale clip in the front pocket. "Benchmade?" I asked.
"Yes, but I just lost my AFCK."

Sometimes life is great, and then you loose your knife! -Krumbs
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I see a good number of people carrying knives each day. I'm also considered backwoods, boonies, ...Egypt, and people out here carry. Anything from folders to automatics to large fixed blades. And nobody seems to mind it. Actually, people carry guns and hardly get a second look here, except for the interest in what kind it is.
This is hunting country and w/o a knife you're not going too far. But it's not just hunters. Just the other day I was noticling the pocketclip of a Spyderco Police model on one of our medics. He happily pulled it out and I showed him my BM Stryker and Blackwood LiteWave. The day before one of the deputies got a new S&W Auto that he was showing around. I have no worries out here. Atlanta...well that is a different story, I try to be more subtle when I have to go there.
 
You don't see it much here in NYC- the bad guys carry concealed (box cutters, etc) and the rest are clueless or keep a SAK on a keyring. There are exceptions- in the neighhborhood where I work, there are a lot of the Broadway theatres around & the stage hands always have multitools/folders. I work in an office building & with the exception of the occasional UPS/FedEx guy with a folder you don't see many cubicle-dwellers carrying serious knives. The VP/GM in my office is frightened to death of my knives after I opened a couple of things that needed opening. Pure sheeple ignorance. This past summer I spotted a few tourists around the midtown/Times Square area with the tell-tale clips showing & even spotted OD paracord peeking out of the necks of a couple of t-shirts. I have seen a few clips while on the subway & these may have even been on some of the good citizens here (E, F & R trains fellahs?). There is at least one more KnifeKnut among us now- I gave a friend (who is also a NYC cop) a Woo to wear to work & he was thrilled- about 7 of us sat in a little neighborhood watering hole & played with (my) knives (3 Spydercos, 2 Woos, a REKAT Fang, & a "non-metallic composite"- what was in the briefcase) for about a 1/2 hour until we noticed that we were getting the hairy eyeball from the sheeple. Pretty funny. Helps to have a 6'2" cop around! a little off topic, but a funny scene...

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