How do you carry your traditional pocket knives?

Yep those buckaroo pouches are pretty much cowboy chic:

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Lets ya get to your knife with or without your leggings on:

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EBCD242F-7E71-4C93-AB4A-6984DAB80B0F.jpeg I wear shorts when weather allows and I have concerns about a traditional knife sliding out while I’m sitting down. My front pocket wallet or slips have nothing to do with preserving or preventing scratches. As a pre-teen and early teen I would mis-place or lose wallets, knives or basically anything in my possession. So I have a paranoia about my gear now. For what it’s worth I’ve had zero success with the forum search button
 
I usually wear baggy worsted dress slacks (poly/wool) to work or beat around in. (I have several pairs issued as uniform pants during a brief stint as a transit operator.) My right front pocket will typically carry two or three smallish folders, plus a mini-channellock plier. The pocket could easily hold more, but three is more than I have ever needed in a day, and is about as many as I care to grope through to find the one I want. Sometimes I will throw my phone in there, too, so I don’t want the pocket to be too full of knives.

On a key ring in my left pocket, there is a Micra and a Sears 4-way screwdriver.
 
9BBE6284-E4F7-41CE-B083-91346C6A47A3.jpeg My right front pants pocket is dedicated to my traditional pocket knife. If I carry two then the smaller one goes in the watch pocket and larger one in the RFP. Nothing else rides in that pocket, just the knife.

No slips or pouches.
 
I carry a thin single blade (usually a 6107w) during the week; and a medium stockman (32, 47 or 90 are my fave's) or ratcliffe modded muskrat when I get to wear jeans on weekends. I've never carried 2 knives, unless the 2nd is on my belt. Right front pocket always.
 
I've gone through different phases over the years: sometimes carrying bare in my pocket, sometimes using a small belt case, and sometimes a slip. I really don't like mixing things in my pockets and refuse to put things like coins and keys together with a bare knife or, Heaven forbid, an expensive piece of electronics! :eek: Thank goodness for cargo pants, and sometimes I still seem to be running out of places to put things (partly because I don't like sitting on a billfold). :p Lately I've made up a few simple leather slips and have been using them, which gives me the option of putting something else in the pocket with a knife. For larger (4") knives I find that they do well in a back pocket and will stay vertical if they are in a slip. I hook my keys on a Bianchi belt keeper/key holder and let them dangle into a front pocket (along with a Vic Rambler on a short piece of cord), but the keys don't extend deep enough to contact my knife if it is in the bottom of the pocket. Dang, that is a long and complicated answer. :rolleyes:
 
Before I retired we wore 5:11 pants for duty every day, so I have enough pairs of them to last "a while." Plenty of pockets there, but even during important social events when I wear jeans, my main knife is in the right front pocket & backup is in left front.
 
Most of the year I just carry them in a pants pocket, which pocket dependent upon what I'm doing. I usually wear jeans, sometimes khaki slacks or shorts if it happens to be hot, which is pretty often in Alabama summertime. During the winter, I will most often have a jacket of some sort on and will put them in a jacket pocket where it's easier to get to them when sitting or driving. I have a couple of big folding hunters that have leather belt pouches for carry, but the one that's actually carried and used occasionally is a Queen 44 single bladed and it's flat enough for pocket carry.

A little pocket weight has never bothered me; when carrying billfold, change, vehicle keys, cell phone, etc., most any "pocket" knife will not even be noticeable, just part of what's always there anyway.
 
For the last 50+ years - pocketknife in the pants pocket, most commonly the left front and most commonly a Case 6318. My Buck 110 (and occasionally a Buck 112 or Case Hammerhead) is carried on my belt in the proper belt sheath, on back right side. I do also carry a Buck 118 fixed blade during hunting season - keep it in the sheath in my backpack. OH
 
I carry mine in the left front pocket of my jeans... and that´t it. I hardly every carry a pouch or a sheath for mine.

It is still a pocket knife. So it belongs to a pocket. When I want to carry a belt knife - I gonna take one on my belt.

This seems to be a topic that appears from time to time. And I really like the statements that are made for this... :thumbsup:
 
Most I just toss into my pocket with my keys and change, they're quite capable of surviving getting pocket tumbled and worn. Some if they have a place for a lanyard/fob I'll tie something on that'll dangle from my pocket makin' it easier to just grab the lanyard/fob and pull it out.

Still some of the nicer traditionals I'll keep in a pocket sheath and throw in the pocket. These are not meant to be instant deployment one hand knives, they're meant to take your time and enjoy opening and using the knife followed by a conscious closing and return to my pocket.

Traditional knives are meant to be used if you're lookin' for instant access and deployment grab another knife more suited to that environment.

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