Lanyard or no lanyard, that is the question.

Do you keep the lanyard on your CRK folders?

  • I prefer NO lanyard on my CRK folder

    Votes: 4 80.0%

  • I LIKE a lanyard on my CRK folder

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • Total voters
    5
Very close indeed. I like lanyards. Did not think I would but left one on my first CRK and the lanyard grew on me.
 
My Large Lefthanded BG42 Regular Custom "De Wit" Micarta Sebenza came with the original lanyard.
I tried using it without a lanyard but it sits clipped so tight that when pulling it out of my pocket there is a chance of letting it fall. Just slipping out of my fingers.
Since a few years I have knotted on a simple leather string with a "sjouwerman" knot to pull it from the pocket or for easier access while carrying IWB. Works perfect.

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It's my only Sebenza and it's a user! :thumbup:
 
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tiguy7 said:
All you need is a push pin detachable (loss prevention) lanyard.View attachment 438686
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The only time I have ever seen an actual person using a lanyard on a knife was the Amish feed mill owner, where I buy sheep and goat feed. He had the ratty old piece of shoe lace, or whatever, tying his leatherman to his belt. It makes sense. The last thing he needs is to drop it in the grain mill. I have lost one knife in deep water, where a lanyard would have saved me a bunch of grief. It's practical, but I'm not sure I can warm up to the idea for myself. But you bet I will on my next canoe trip, or for fishing. Knives sink real fast.
 
I do like lanyards. The reason I started making them. They make it much easier to pull the knife from the pocket. To be honest they have saved my butt a couple times. Once while cutting an aggressive dog off a lead,had the dog on a catch pole with one hand and the lead in the other. The lanyard allowed me to pull the knife from my pocket using my ring finger and pinky. That one really wasn't as much live and death as the time I was trapped between a pallet of Pepsi and a forklift. I was unloading a truck of product and they shrink wrap two pallets together. Most of the time you can pick up the one pallet and back off at an angle to rip the wrap. Sometimes they were wrapped with to much wrap and would want to pull the other pallet over. I got off the lift on one of these one night to cut the wrap. As I stepped around to do so the brake popped off the lift and the wrap pulled the lift into the pallet like a giant rubber band with me in between. Only way I got my knife out to cut the wrap was by the lanyard and I barely got a hold of it. Always really watched out for that after that time. If I had not gotten that knife out I would have passed out within minutes as it had me pressed in so hard I could not take a breath.
 
I only like it if carrying the knife in a pocket slip. Makes it possible to remove it from the slip one handed.
 
Tied at 39 votes each. Wow. Does anyone know if the standard CRK black hangman's noose gives you enough cord to make a wrist loop if you had to in a pinch (IE working over water, or from heights?) Or is it purely decoration, and an extension of the handle?
 
You can always use the lanyard to carry something else with you as well. I have a fire steel tied inside of the lanyard I have on my Sebenza right now.
 
I carried a small 21 Insingo for about 2 years, I loved the lanyard on it because it gave me a place to grab with my little finger and made it easy to take out of my pocket.
I moved to carrying Large CRK's several years ago and I never have a lanyard on the Larges. I do think that they look nice , kinda like a little G-string for my good looking Safe Queens, but I don't want them getting in the way on my users. You can continue that analogy if you like ;)
 
Most of what we are calling lanyards are just fobs, and I like to have one on just about everything. I prefer one that swings free, but has a bead to aid in deployment and location. If I'm doing something or going somewhere where loss is likely, I'll tie on an actual lanyard - big enough to loop around my wrist, neck or through a belt loop.



 
This is worse than an election! Now we are tied at 43 votes each. Someone has to concede. I guess we have uncovered an issue that has truly split the CRK community into two camps: The prepared and the thread-bare. I still don't know which camp I'm in and I can't just be a sheep and follow the croud either.
 
I voted no lanyard....But...That was using the stock lanyard. It kind of just sticks up getting in the way. Seeing others lanyards with longer lengths to let it kind of hang looks interesting. Lets see some more pics of CRK's with lanyards. This is harder than maths.
 
This poll is officially ludicrous. I call it a draw and suggest CRK start randomly including or excluding lanyards from all their knives. They will have a 50/50 chance of making the buyer extremely happy :D
 
Change out the stock lanyard to this. I will change it again so that I am able to tuck into my pocket more when clipped in.
 
Trying this out for a couple of days.


Tucks in the pocket a lot better. Use to stick straight up.
 
Well it certainly is a close race, right now it's 47 against and 48 for, I voted for ;) but that was when I had Sebenza's :(

One thing that you can also do with the lanyard, the longer ones, is while carrying the knife you can slide the lanyard up and around your belt for some added protection against the knife being 'lost'.

I'm searching now for a small micarta Insingo folder, had the larger one but that seemed too large for me, but I'm hoping the small will fit the bill nicely ;)
G2
 
I like lanyards. Mostly useless but slightly convenient. I carry my knife in the same pocket as my wallet so retrieving it with the lanyard is slightly easier. Also, I'm really excited for the day that someone recognizes my sebenza. That's how I roll.
 
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