how do you carry your neck knife?

low96hb said:
Well I have a IZULA, Becker necker, and a ESKABAR and I still have trouble carrying any og them around my neck. I just can't get a setup that I can get comfortable with......
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What is it that you're having trouble with? The weight, the deployment, overall comfort? Maybe someone will have some tips.
 
hoopster said:
What is it that you're having trouble with? The weight, the deployment, overall comfort? Maybe someone will have some tips.
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The overall comfort.....It is anoying as heck just being there. I haved tried wrapping it with paracord and without, longer and shorter cord etc... Nothing bad to say about any of the knives just mostly a comfort issue I guess.....
 
low96hb said:
The overall comfort.....It is anoying as heck just being there. I haved tried wrapping it with paracord and without, longer and shorter cord etc... Nothing bad to say about any of the knives just mostly a comfort issue I guess.....
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I understand, I've tried to get used to a great knife that was only slightly heavier and longer than the Izula but I could always feel it was there and that bothered me. Eventually I went back to the Izula in kydex and I rarely even feel it.

I will say, like many things in life, it can take a few weeks to get used to.
 
I avoid neck nooses. Among the same reasons already posted, I'm not keen on the possibility of being strangled so easily with my own carry method.

I sometimes carry an Izula in my back jean pocket and looped around my belt with just enough length of paracord.

I also sport an Izula in it's sheath with an adjustable shoulder rig I fashioned with nothing but paracord and a buntline hitch knot. Great for warm weather under an open shirt. And it's not in anyone's face to notice I have a knife around my neck.

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I carry my "neck knife" about 90% of the time in a cricket Dave back pocket sheath. Works great.

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I don't like having a string or a chain around my neck.

I used to work at a golf course...lots and lots of belts, chains, PTOs, what have you...all running all the time.

An older guy who used to work road construction told how a guy got the string from his hood caught in something running and broke his neck right there and then...just SNAP...dead.

You never saw 5 college/HS boys pull strings out of 5 hoodies so fast in your life.

So no neck knife for me thanks.
 
somber said:
In my back pocket. :)
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What he said.

I cannot get the idea of having something razor sharp right near my major arteries and heart.

Not to mention I find the look a little silly. That's just my opinion though. :)

Tostig
 
Around my neck in a kydex sheath and tucked inside my shirt.

I always find it amusing that folks worry about the hazards of a knife around their neck, but don't worry about getting stabbed in the butt by the same knife in a back pocket sheath or getting castrated by the same knife in a front pocket sheath.
 
popedandy said:
Around my neck in a kydex sheath and tucked inside my shirt.

I always find it amusing that folks worry about the hazards of a knife around their neck, but don't worry about getting stabbed in the butt by the same knife in a back pocket sheath or getting castrated by the same knife in a front pocket sheath.
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This is true...hell, I have full confidence in the blade on my Izula, but no so much that I believe it will somehow slice through the sheath and into my chest....that's about as likely as my Glock 19 just somehow "going off" in the holster.
 
I wear my neck knife around my neck. If it isn't worn around the neck, then it isn't a neck knife is it?! Then it becomes a pocket fixed blade or a belt knife, and not a neck knife.
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popedandy said:
I always find it amusing that folks worry about the hazards of a knife around their neck, but don't worry about getting stabbed in the butt by the same knife in a back pocket sheath or getting castrated by the same knife in a front pocket sheath.
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Funny, I never worry about the cutting aspect of either type of carry. I am way more worried about that thing around my neck.

In the immortal words of Briscoe Darling as he was having his necktie adjusted for his daughter's wedding: "Saw and hangin' once. Never liked havin' one of these things around my neck ever since"...or something to that effect.
 
I carry all my small 3 1/2" blades horizontal crossdraw in one of my kydex sheaths....(neck knife, insinuating small fixed blade)
 
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