How do you carry your traditionals?

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rune1279

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So I am fortunate to have a job where I can get away with wearing jeans. This is fortunate because it gives me the coin pocket, the perfect place to put the kind of smallish traditionals I like to carry around the office. This is useful because I've got keys in one front pocket and a phone in the other. Pocket sheaths seem like they'd be unwieldy to me, so if I don't have a coin pocket, like today, I've got some beater knife rattling around with my keys. (Zytel's gotta be good for something, right?)

So how do you carry your traditionals? Do you carry bone scales or stag in with your keys, or break out a pocket sheath? What about composites and delrin? Is there some level of 'niceness' beyond which you change your mind? (For some reason I feel like it would be fine to carry my Buck companion in with my keys, but balk at doing the same with my Case yeller pen, go figure.)

I've accumulated some nice pocketknives -- not that they're doing me any good back at home! I figure at worst this thread will calibrate my fussiness-level, and at best might give me a usable idea.

Thanks in advance,
--Mark
 
In my front pocket, either the right one, along with my cellphone or (less often) in my left one, along with a "tool keyring", no matter the scales or the knife: I have few knives, carry them all, and I don't worry about them.

Fausto
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I've become a real creature of habit when it comes to carrying stuff. The same stuff goes in the same pockets, all the time. My pocket knife goes in the right front pocket with a bandana, Fenix E01, and a golf pencil. That's it. Any change and lighter goes in the left front pocket, with keys hanging from a carabiner from the left hand belt loop by the pocket and the keyring stuck in the pocket to keep them from rattling around. So the keys are really hanging in the pocket. Back pockets are for wallet and tobacco pouch and second bandana.

I think I've been doing it this way as long as I can remember. When I got my first pocket knife, I started to emulate my father's way of carrying stuff.

Carl.
 
Im not sure how much it will help you but i carry all my traditiinals in my right pocket with a balled up half bandana on top which comes in handy for several reasons. It gives alittle security against loss, helps break up the outline or "printing" of the knife, allows you to throw other things (such as your keys) on top of the bandana and have little chance of rubbing against your knife, aswell as any use you can think of for the bandana it's self. I find a half bandana to fit better in the pocket without losing much in the way of utility.
 
Creature of habit? No.. Of course! Knives go in the front right pocket unless it's a fixed. Riding along is a thumb-drive & chapstick. Some knives get a small leather pouch but most just pick up character along the way.
 
A small in my watch pocket, my Charlies harness jack in my right front pocket and one on my belt, usually my CV soddie.

Best regards

Robin
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i used to use leather slips and all that, then i finally said forget it, my bolsters are going to get scratched up anyway and i prefer a nicely worn pocket knife. not only gives it character but it tells a story.
 
shrapne1 said:
i used to use leather slips and all that, then i finally said forget it, my bolsters are going to get scratched up anyway and i prefer a nicely worn pocket knife. not only gives it character but it tells a story.
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No doubt about character but with a pouch you get to show off someone Else's character as well!
 
Small ones in coin/watch pocket. Others usually in the pocket I don't have keys, and change in.
 
Left front pocket with keys and coins. Right now it's an Erickson trapper. I used to have some nice pocket sheaths that I made, but I haven't gotten around to making more.

shrapne1 said:
i used to use leather slips and all that, then i finally said forget it, my bolsters are going to get scratched up anyway and i prefer a nicely worn pocket knife. not only gives it character but it tells a story.
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It wasn't a question of scratches for me, it was more that the knives I carry are big enough to be annoying when they fall crossways in my pocket.
 
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I carry them in my pockets.

When the occasion allows me to carry knives, I normally have a handful (in jeans, I regularly carry 5 traditional folders).

Small in the watch pocket, then two in either front pocket. I put two in slip sheaths, and two without. Then they don't bang against each other. I don't carry change or keys in my pockets, so that is not a problem.

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When I have to go to work (no weapons of any kind allowed, by statute), I only carry one or two, and leave them in the car.
 
I carry mine in a pocket slip. Not particularly worried about scratches but I find it helps keep them in the pocket
 
Right front pocket, with my cell phone (Droid Razr Maxx in Otterbox Commuter), and my Spyderco Endura Wave SE. Wallet, keys, change, and SAK go in left front. That way my traditional doesn't get scratched up from keys or coins. The knife will occasionally ding up the cell phone, but that's what screen protectors are for.
 
Watch pocket for smaller Pearl and delicate scaled knives, pocket bottom with keys , change and other knives and anything custom or overly expensive to me, pocket sheath usually, (my Pearl William Henry, Lancet rides in a pocket sheath).

For the most part I carry and use all my knives at some point so most of my "Traditionals" have character and patina as I like 'em.

Knives should be used and look like it, I understand the use of pretty knives as jewelry, I have a few that only come out for special occasions but the rest for the most part get no more special treatment than the change in my pocket.
 
I am also a creature of habit with my pockets. Cell phonea always in the left pocket by itself. Left back pocket gets my wallet. Back right now sees a bandana every day. Right front gets keys, two pens, change and my knife. My right front pocket needs a diet. Been thinking of messing with my carry, just cant bring myself to put anything in with my phone lol. Knife I could care less, its made to get used and scratched.
 
Usually the tiny trapper but the last few days the Case Tadpole in watch pocket. Wallet and original leatherman in right back. Cash and change front left. iPhone in a lifeproof case in right fronts with whatever other small to medium folder if I carry another folder it is usually a larger one on belt in a cross draw sheath. I don't always carry the bigger folder during the winter months because there is always one in my jacket or coat along with the regular jacket stuff lighter a little twine with some tape wrapped around it, in old sucrets tin with a couple matches bandaids( mostly for the kids) couple fish hooks a wire saw and a twenty dollar bill.When I leave town I usually pack my ultra elite in a shoulder rig made by bianchi it has a double clip holder on the off side that also holds a fixed blade. I usually leave my keys in the ignition. Unless I'm driving the vette (it doesn't require a key just a fob that stays in the glove box.) but I live in a small pretty much crime free town. I have never locked the door to my house but I do have a dog in there.
 
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I'm a creature of habit also, cell phone in front left pocket with a pair of earbuds, in the left front pocket is a full sized traditional with my ipod (my ipod is in a cheap leather case) and loose change if i have it, then in the pocket watch is a case peanut. Then i have my keys on a carabeiner stuffed into my back pocket with the wallet. And thats how it is when i'm wearing jeans.
 
rockgolfer said:
I am also a creature of habit with my pockets. Cell phonea always in the left pocket by itself. Left back pocket gets my wallet. Back right now sees a bandana every day. Right front gets keys, two pens, change and my knife. My right front pocket needs a diet. Been thinking of messing with my carry, just cant bring myself to put anything in with my phone lol. Knife I could care less, its made to get used and scratched.
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I always have to have a bandana in my pocket. Right rear. No wallet in the back pockets though, unless I am standing or walking. I can't sit on a wallet anymore. Makes my back go out.

I also don't put anything in the same pocket with the phone.
 
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