Kershaw Skyline tip up carry?

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glocker199

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Is this supposed to be a joke?

The design of the clip makes the knife ride unnecessarily high to start with. The location of the screw holes make tip up carry all but impossible. Who wants to carry a knife with a third of it riding above your pocket?
 
glocker199 said:
Is this supposed to be a joke?

The design of the clip makes the knife ride unnecessarily high to start with. The location of the screw holes make tip up carry all but impossible. Who wants to carry a knife with a third of it riding above your pocket?
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There was a member named Gnoleb making custom Ti deep carry clips for the skyline. I'm not sure he's making them anymore. I have one on my CF/S30v variant. Love it.
 
I agree with you 100%, it's a horrible design for tip up carry. I bought this clip off the bay. It works well enough. I wish it was a bit flatter in design.

 
eschwebach said:
I agree with you 100%, it's a horrible design for tip up carry. I bought this clip off the bay. It works well enough. I wish it was a bit flatter in design.

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The thing is that the Skyline really NEEDS to be tip up. I find it much easier to access the flipper tip up. Even more important it that I don't trust a flipper carried with the blade side open. I once had one that opened in my pocket repeatedly until it finally stabbed me in the thigh and I threw it in the garbage.
 
Same deal with the Leek - on the tip end, it has the safety mechanism sitting in front of the clip mounting area, and the clip itself isn't a deep-carry affair. Some 20-25% of the knife is sitting outside your pocket. I have no doubt I would lose it. I will have to keep an eye out for a new clip like eschwebach shared.
 
Yes, same gripe hear. I solved it by "moving" the clip farther up the handle. Drilled and tapped for screws.

 
xICEMANx said:
There was a member named Gnoleb making custom Ti deep carry clips for the skyline. I'm not sure he's making them anymore. I have one on my CF/S30v variant. Love it.
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Coincidentally, I just got a clip in the mail from him today for a Kershaw Leek. Phenomenal work, and I would highly recommend one if he still makes them for the Skyline. The Leek does indeed have the same problem. I would trust a regular flipper tip down, but a spring-assisted flipper as fast as the Leek, no way! That would be just waiting to get stabbed in the side at random. (Though it is my own fault for hating the little safety slider.)
 
glocker199 said:
Is this supposed to be a joke?

The design of the clip makes the knife ride unnecessarily high to start with. The location of the screw holes make tip up carry all but impossible. Who wants to carry a knife with a third of it riding above your pocket?
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I do. I hate low ride. High ride makes it easy to get to the knife, faster draw and deployment (knife is already in hand, finger on flipper, low-ride on most knives makes me need to re-position knife in hand after the draw). Low-ride is the opposite. Low ride is like having a flap on your sixgun holster.
 
manowar669 said:
I do. I hate low ride. High ride makes it easy to get to the knife, faster draw and deployment (knife is already in hand, finger on flipper, low-ride on most knives makes me need to re-position knife in hand after the draw). Low-ride is the opposite. Low ride is like having a flap on your sixgun holster.
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I can understand not wanting the entire knife burried in your pocket but I can't imagine wanting a 1/3 of the knife riding above your pocket. It's about one step above those goofballs who carry knives clipped in the outside of their pockets.
 
Yeah I'm not into deep carry or anything but I always thought that the Skyline can benefit from the clip being moved up a bit. Heck I think it can use an aesthetic upgrade too.
 
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