I can't be the only one who hangs small knives inside my pocket

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Hi all.
I just found something that I haven't seen yet. Perhaps it is all around and i am still clueless, but...
I bought some 'antique brass' pocket clips, about 1/2" wide by about 1 1/4" with a small loop on the end of the clip.
I had just bought a small Schrade single blade, bail equipt (wish there were more!), key chain sized knife. Staglon bare-head. Pretty 'lil thang.
Anyway, I put a small jump-ring on the bail and put the pocket clip on the ring (through the hole).
Clip, ring, knife.
I just hang the clip onto the edge of my pocket, like most clips, and I just take the clip from my pocket and there's the knife.
No slip necessary!
I like the no slip part, the knife just floats in pocket sky!

Great for small knives, but I do need a slip for my 100+ Cattaraugus coke-bottle with original big bail.
I do keep that in a slip, but I have affixed a brass chain from knife to belt.
Chain looks good, makes pocket extraction simple and I don't put the knife down and walk away! Nor can it 'walk away' of it's own accord!
Chain is about 40" and long enough for me to use the knife in any fashion except throwing.

I thought that I'd share what is a 'new to me' way to carry small knives, and have them immediately accessible (sans all the pocket crud that such knives usually roll around in)!

(I have an entirely new appreciation for bails, also!)
be well
Peace
 
Thats been a thing for a long time....
An Imperial boys knife
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An old Robeson scout
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The chains attach to the suspender buttons that used to be on every pair of pants....
 
Hey, I do not mean to impose, but afishhunter afishhunter has what I consider to be the coolest version of this style I have seen. Maybe he will post it. :)
I very much enjoy these, and would like to make one for myself holding some things like... a SAK, (or two, knowing me) maybe a smaller Leatherman, maybe a small slipjoint with the, ah.... shackle? I think that part at the bottom of the scout knife there is called a shackle, and a very LW utility Spyderco like a Dragonfly (1.2oz) or Cricket (1.7oz), maybe even Lil Matriarch if it's used in the garden? Just kind of like an "easy-attach, utility pack" sort of thing.

Certainly
 
I'm aware of the chains and clips on the larger knives. Nice pix. (Does anyone still wear a waistcoat with attachment button?)
The coke bottle fits in a 'clip-slip', and I extract by the chain.
But a small knife with only one link to 'U' pocket clip, I haven't seen, until mine. It's so simple that it must have been around for centuries. That is why I have brought this to you, I really have not seen it elsewhere!
If not, I offer the configuration fwiw.
 
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Hashishiin said:
Hey, I do not mean to impose, but afishhunter afishhunter has what I consider to be the coolest version of this style I have seen. Maybe he will post it. :)
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You mean this?
"40 pound capacity" 32 inch hanging pot/planter chain, with a 150 pound test saltwater fishing swivel snap on each end. 36 inch OAL.
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Attached to a knife and MT, using a Nite-Iz belt loop key hanger for the anchor.View attachment 1924942
I got the chain (4pcs) and (8) swivel snaps from the "big river" site.
 
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Btw this is genius. I hate how my SAK falls to the bottom of the pocket and lays horizontal.
 
Love the spoon idea! Well played! Come to think of it, I have a few silver silverware... hmmm... I could wear the 'ware!
(And it keeps them from housing pocket dust bunnies!)
70 years collecting and using and still all sorts of very pleasant surprises!
 
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