How do you carry your knife

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Perfessr

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A simple question for owners of custom slippies, do you carry it in a pouch or just drop it in your pocket. I can hardly imagine just dropping a multi-hundred dollar knife in your pocket.
Also I really like backpocket knifes, like a nice slim trapper would you do the same there.
 
Depends more on the size of the knife than anything. I don't do the back pocket thing, maybe if I carried a wallet in a back pocket I would but just the knife alone isn't that comfortable. Medium stockman, a peanut, etc goes in the front pocket, larger knives go in a belt pouch. I would add I keep very little in my pockets..never any change so I don't have a pocket full of scratching stuff.
 
Knife pouch....Whats a pouch:confused:
Those things for William Henrys???






Just kidding:p I just drop mine in pocket.
 
I tried and use the back pocket carry but found I cause more ware to the knives (polishing down type wear) than when I carry them in my front pocket with other tools and keys. Someone on this site had a tag at the bottom of their posts that said something about good knives were for using not saving or something like that.
The words bothered me because I had knives that I never used, now I have torn the box, ripped wrapper and factory papers and enjoy the knife as EDC.
 
Pocketknife and handkerchief go in my left front pocket. No change or knife purse.
 
Right now I have my Case Stockman in my right front pocket. I'm looking into getting a pocket sheath made for it though because I don't want it getting all dinged up with everything in my pockets.
 
Perfessr said:
A simple question for owners of custom slippies, do you carry it in a pouch or just drop it in your pocket. I can hardly imagine just dropping a multi-hundred dollar knife in your pocket.
Also I really like backpocket knifes, like a nice slim trapper would you do the same there.
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Then I think you should get a cheaper knife :thumbup::thumbup: If you are scared to use a knife, you have the wrong knife for the job. Leave that one at home. Personally, I just toss my knife in my front right pocket, with a bandana. Works great.

I also use 300-400 dollar folders with clips. I dont enjoy a knife unless I use it in my daily life. A knife feels empty to me unless it sees life in the real world. YMMV :)
 
If it's a user it goes in the front right pocket with everything else. I don't worry about scratches and such because it is a "work knife." If scratching is a concern it's better left at home with the rest of the collection. Removes all the temptation of using it and causing harm.
 
i only have two custom knives and both go into my jeans watch pocket exclusively because of the easy access and i find far less dirt/grime/lint/scratches in stuck in my knives then if I use my regular jean pockets with all the other coins and junk that finds there way in their. less traffic makes for clean knives.:)
 
Then I think you should get a cheaper knife
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I normally carry a Case Amber bone Canoe in my right front pocket with a flashdrive and my Razr phone, a trapper of sorts in my back pocket with my wallet and a small peanut/mini might in my left front with my Inova X1 and my keys.
My knives are fairly inexpensive.
 
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It depends on the size of the knife, the weather and other stuff I might need to keep in my pockets.

Small knives like peanuts go either in my watch pocket or in a shirt pocket. Larger ones go in my front right pocket most of the times. If they are carbon steel and it's too hot, I carry them in one of the tight pockets of my cargo pants. I very rarely use belt sheaths for anything but large or medium sized fixed blades and I don't like back pocket carry too much.
 
I carry more than one custom at a time--
one in a pocket--in a knife purse*, and another on my belt, in a sheath made for me by our own Gary Graley. He made if for a William Henry knife, but it turned out to fit my Tony Bose wharncliffe trapper very nicely.








*I have a special get-out-of-girlyman-free pass from the Old Dog hisownself.
 
Perfessr said:
A simple question for owners of custom slippies, do you carry it in a pouch or just drop it in your pocket.
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Goes straight in the pocket, no knife purse necessary.

Perfessr said:
I can hardly imagine just dropping a multi-hundred dollar knife in your pocket.
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Try dropping it on concrete. I fumbled my KHnutbuster a month after I got it. Nearly cried when it happened.
 
Front left pocket, no pouch or anything. I try to keep other things out of the pocket, but scratches happen, the first is always the worst!
 
My knife and phone (w/open face screen) go in the same pocket, so the knife's in a pouch.

Mike
 
I carry my custom slip joints in a pouch in my right hand pocket. There's a couple of reasons for this, the obvious being it protects the knife from getting banged up from keys and change. The not so obvious reason is I've never had a knife slip out of my pocket when it is in a pouch. The pouch causes enough friction to keep even the most slippery slippie from ending up in someones seat cushion or under a carseat. The extra few seconds it takes me to get to the knife is inconsequential.
 
Unless it is a custom or came with a pouch, it goes in the right front along with the change and nailclippers. Peanut in the watch pocket and knife with pocket clip in the right front also. You might guess I am a righty. I have considered a pocket sheath for a larger stockman or trapper for the left back, but haven't seen much I like along that line yet. Does anybody use one and if so what are the particulars about it. I would like to keep some of my knives from getting banged up.
 
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