"Hey dude sorry I wasn't checking you out, I was looking at your knife"

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billym

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How many of us catch ourselves trying to spot other EDC knife folks in public by looking for pocket clips?

I think I need a shirt that explains that I am not looking at your butt I am checking out your pocket clip and trying to figure out what knife you have.
I actually see a lot of BMs, Spydercos and such. Also some real freaky crap too, you know those cheap "gas station/liquor store knives".

Last week I even saw a gal on line at a local pizza place with a folder clipped inside the cuff of the "Hunger games" boots. Real hot! I chickened out and didn't ask her what knife she had. Don't see that too often.

I guy I became friends with through work (he works for our distributor) EDCs an old school BM Stryker and last time we worked together we met a customer how was carrying and Al Mar model that was in dire need of a sharpening stone.

I see a lot of LEO with BMs I even got a ticket from a CHP officer who had a 175 CBK in his waistband behind the gun belt. That time I chose not to mention I noticed, said thank you and went on my (slower) way.
More knives out there than most expect.

How many need that t shirt?
 
I guess my eye sight is not that bad since it only takes a couple of seconds to spot and recognize a pocket clip. When it takes longer than 2 seconds it's probably a gas station knife I don't know about or a really high end knife I don't know about :p although the first option is more likely.
 
Seeing a pocket clip on the street around here is ultra rare. Normally when I'm at the gun club I can spot a few.
 
Pretty rare around here too, usually if I do see one it's some garbage wally world special...
 
I catch a lot of clips but they're usually of the gas station variety. I have seen, on occasion, a few Benchmades, Kershaws and a Master of Defense. I've been known to actually ask...
 
I don't like anyone asking what's in my pocket or on my belt, under my shirt, inside my jacket....
 
I see clips all the time, but I royally suck at the identification of said clips!
 
I don't like anyone asking what's in my pocket or on my belt, under my shirt, inside my jacket....
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with all the knives you have and great ones, i would have to ask. I seldom see any, i live in the middle of NC and folks here still think Case xx is the only knife made. And those of us that do carry, 3 knives everyday for 40 years, we are looked down upon. We are still considered the redneck with a box cutter in our back pocket. But then again people in the south will cut you in a fight with the drop of a hat. Nothing lower than trailer trash cutter, sick. I lost a great friend David Moose in 1984 to a punk skinny trespasser into a party who cut David's throat with a box cutter. Why, "because he was looking at my woman" kid did zero time in a redneck jury trial. Google it , Hickory NC 1984.
 
i see quite a few spyderco clips and benchmade on my BART commute to SF. i'm constantly staring at people's pockets to see what they're carrying. hell, i saw a dude once with a buck woodsman sheath and all just sticking out of his back pocket once. people were all staring pretty hard. i laughed. awesome.
 
I would never have guessed that there would be that many people carrying in Berkely.... Oakland I could understand, but last time I was in Berkely it seemed pretty Liberal. I see very few people carrying in Orange county
 
I'm Scottish ancestry by way of Norway and southern bred...ask me what I got on the wrong day and ill moon your silly butt. :)

Of course, on a good day I will strike up a conversation about those damnable yanks and English in dc and London...and how by using our knives and heads we can win back our freedom!

Either way you'll enjoy it and we will likely be friends upon parting...unless your a yank or English...
 
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with all the knives you have and great ones, i would have to ask. I seldom see any, i live in the middle of NC and folks here still think Case xx is the only knife made. And those of us that do carry, 3 knives everyday for 40 years, we are looked down upon. We are still considered the redneck with a box cutter in our back pocket. But then again people in the south will cut you in a fight with the drop of a hat. Nothing lower than trailer trash cutter, sick. I lost a great friend David Moose in 1984 to a punk skinny trespasser into a party who cut David's throat with a box cutter. Why, "because he was looking at my woman" kid did zero time in a redneck jury trial. Google it , Hickory NC 1984.
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I live in Arizona now...but miss my family in arkansas through Carolina's :) I feel bad what with all those damn new Yorkers spreading like aids in Africa down your way. Of course, we in Arizona have to worry about the damn Texans and California fleas bouncing their way across our lines...;)

Much love to true Texans...is those damned austinites that get me riled
 
Everyone carrys a knife in my town from suits to outlaws.

" it's not polite to stare ".
 
I need the shirt. They're almost always at waist level too, so it looks like your looking at their butt or worse. I'm usually pretty inconspicuous though.
 
My professor wore one (I think) everyday that he was not wearing lab clothing. I always wanted to ask what the blade was, but didn't want to be embarrassed if it was just a pen or flashlight instead of a knife.
 
Maybe that is what the guys at the urinal next to me are sneaking a peek at. I just thought they are freaks. I feel better already.
 
I don't see too many clips, but I see a LOT of fixed blades and sheathed folders (mostly buck 110s I imagine). I live in a rural desert area so fixed blades are very common. I'm not good at IDing fixed blades unless their something from ZT, Spyderco, or SOG, and most of what I see have wooden, antler, or bone handles.

The only time someone asked what I was carrying was in Tucson, some young guy (18-21ish) noticed my sidearm (OWB holster but my shirt had covered it) and asked me (very blatantly) if I would 'sell what's under my shirt'. :eek: He offered me a grand for a pistol he didn't bother to ask what brand it was or what it looked like (it was covered except for the bottom of the holster) or how it worked or caliber or anything... Very awkward.

But other than that, people only ask about my knives if I'm using one of them (to peel or cut some kind of food for my daughters mostly) or if I'm taking them off to have my Wife hold them (when bowling or swimming, etc.).
 
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