Just curious which front pocket do you prefer to have your trad in?

Captain Howdy said:
I'm kinda mixed up like the OP. Some things I do right and some lefty, I blame it on my mother. I was born a natural lefty and she trained me to do things right handed. I pocket my knife in the rfp, reach for it with my right and pull the blade with my left.
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Now that is interesting! I do the opposite and hold the handle steady with my left while pinching and rotating the blade over with my right hand. But my wallet has always been in my left pocket. I feel like a good traditional rests nicely against your wallet but unfortunately I don't have that option.
 
FordRanger said:
There is always a traditional in my right shirt pocket, wallet in left. This way I can use a knife and pay at the drive through without unbuckling in my truck. As many traditionals as I have, its usually my Buck 307. I'm right handed, so sometimes the knife clipped to my right front pants pocket is also a traditional, often lately its been this one:




I have too much clutter in pants pockets to keep a knife in the bottom of them. Occasionally instead of my ST300 I carry a Buck 110 or a two blade "folding hunter" in a belt sheath.
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I really dig that sheath btw ( not going to get into that amusing thread about wearing a knife in a sheath) lol. Was that sheath from a company?
 
I'm right handed and carry my edc in my right front pocket. To open I hold it in my right hand and open the blade with my left. I've been doing it that way so long I think I'd cut myself if I tried to do anything else.
 
I guess I struggle to answer this because I don't give traditional the same thought as would a tactical weapon, as they are not in the same category to me that requires speed in access or positive retention
 
Most of my EDC's fit in my watch pocket. If not, if I'm carrying a second knife, or if there's no watch pocket, they go in the right front pocket in a pocket sheath. Big knives either go in a belt sheath or coat pocket, depending on the season.
 
Well, I´m a leftie. That being said, I use to carry them in my left front pocket. Or if it is small enough in that ity-bity-tiny pocket of the jeans. After use it can happen that it slips into my right FP, but it doesn´t feel "right" there. You know what I mean? So it will go back to LFP.
A Trapper or a Soddie I use to carry in my backpocket. But til 3 3/4" closed length it´s ok in the front pocket.
 
In my duty uniform in my left front (even though I'm right handed); in jeans (pretty much my only civilian garb) in the watch pocket.
 
Peregrin said:
I'm right handed and carry my edc in my right front pocket. To open I hold it in my right hand and open the blade with my left. I've been doing it that way so long I think I'd cut myself if I tried to do anything else.
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Same as Gary. :thumbup:
 
Solo in my LFP. I also carry a Micra clipped to my RFP and a backup EDC in the external coin compartment of my lightweight nylon tri-fold wallet (LRP).
 
My RFP is a dedicated knife pocket.. NOTHING else goes in with it!! Been doing this since HS (45yrs).. John
 
Right front pocket with a Buff rag or bandana, sometimes, for my Larock small Lanny's Clip. Shirt pocket might have my peanut or small Wiseman barlow. Right rear pocket is for my ebony Case Tribal Spear. Left rear pocket is for my Larock dogleg jack. I sometimes have my Wiseman in the same pocket with the Larock LC. The left pocket is for change and my medicine bundle/bag (leather bag my father sewed together with my late sisters rosary, she passed from SIDS, and some mane and tail hair from my mothers late appaloosa, he died of a broken heart after my fathers pony and Arabian mutt died).

I also have a small light in the same pocket with the Larock LC.

OCD to the max man...

I traded into two modern folders that I just leave at home or in my truck. I much prefer the slipjoints. Pretty to look at with thin blades perfect for cutting. If I need a one hand opener, I grab either my Gossman EDC Kephart, or my Gossman mini Deer Creek.
 
It depends on the knife, and the pants. Usually a right front or watch pocket.
 
Right front pocket, or sometimes watch pocket (when wearing jeans, which I do infrequently these days).

Sometimes one RFP and one LFP. I'm a rightie.
 
Right front pocket most of the time. If I am using the knife a lot, however, I will typically slip it into my breast pocket if available or the back pocket if not.
 
I am right handed, and carry mine in my right front pocket. In that same pocket I have my wallet, so my knife stays vertical.
My grandfather, a man who carried the same jackknife for over 70 years, was also right handed but carried in his left pocket. Back in the day, boys were taught that the "proper" way to open a pocket knife was by holding the handle in your left and opening with your right. Left pocket carry means the knife is already in your left and ready to open in this fashion.
But at 41 years old, I am too old to learn a new trick. So right pocket it is.
 
Right handed. I wear carpenter jeans (or shorts) every day that I can. Hate dress slacks and regular jeans.

RFP: EDC knife (almost always an Opinel 9 but lately, a large Case Sodbuster gifted from a forum member) and loose change. I hate loose change and end up dropping it in tip jars often. Any other Nazarenes out there who remember Alabaster Boxes? I digress.

LFP: Micra and money clip with driver's license and a few debit/credit cards. Money clip reads "The root of all evil". I digress.

RRP: Folded bandana.

LRP: Ancient slider cell phone. I stitch the rear pocket vertically to allow it to ride upright. I don't notice it when sitting. I hate belt holsters but again, I digress.

Right tool pocket: reading glasses. I've given up carrying things in my shirt pockets. I bend over and dump then on the ground.


Pocket Dump by Pinnah, on Flickr
 
My main EDC these days is a peanut, which rides along just fine in my watch pocket. Sometimes, when the feeling catches me, I carry another traditional in my right front pocket with my wallet.
 
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