neck knives and lefties

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Mochiman1

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With the wealth of interesting neck knives out there, I'm trying to decide whether I can get comfortable with this form of carry. As a lefty I find it somewhat awkward. While the right hand easily slides inside the buttoned shirt front to grab the knife handle, it takes a zigzag move of the left arm to get there. Similarly, once the right hand has grasped the knife, deploying it is simply a matter of straightening the arm, which is a strong movement, while accomplishing the same with the left-handed grip requires a more awkward motion to clear the shirt.

I'm curious as to what you left-handed neck knife wearers are doing: do you use the knife right-handed, or do you flip the sheath over and use it left-handed? Or are you ordering left-handed sheaths to be made?

thanks in advance
 
You could start looking for some masculine shirts in the ladies dept. Their shirts button the other way and as long as the style was manly enough, how many people would really notice.

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Or, you could grasp your lapels in both hands, rip outward, spraying buttons everywhere, and by the time you got your neck knife out, the bad guys would be running away from the sight of you, foaming and thrashing at them.

Works for me.
 
BFM--now that's what I call thinking "outside the box." But I don't think the ladies dept. stocks clothes to fit somebody 6'2" 175 lb.
 
Or you could try not hiding it at all. As long as the blade is within legal limits what does it matter. You don't know how many poeple asked me what that was hanging around my neck. And if I told them it was a knife they didn't believe me.
Mykl

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...ROTFLHAO!!....

Both bfm and Esav have great ideas! As I said in another thread, I just received my first..and it didn't work for me...at least not at work, my shirt is unbuttoned down two buttons and the cord was visible. I don't care, I didn't need one at work anyway.

..chuckling...I wonder what VG would recommend...gasp!...don't even think about leg mounted steel!!

Steve-O
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Steve-O:

don't even think about leg mounted steel!!

Steve-O</font>
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What if I slipped a knife in my shoe? Would it set off the metal detector? My prosthetic foot has enough metal parts to do that already ... !


 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Mochiman1:
BFM--now that's what I call thinking "outside the box." But I don't think the ladies dept. stocks clothes to fit somebody 6'2" 175 lb.</font>
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Try Lane Bryant. I think that's the "BIG LADIES" store!

 
I was thinking more of Cabelas.

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It is not the fall that kills you. It is the realization that "yes, you did something that stupid."
 
M1- as far as custom neck knives go, my experience is if you let them know in advance the maker will provide you with a left-handed sheath.
 
Newt Livesay (wicked Knives) makes several very good neck knives that are inexpensive and the sheaths work equally well for leftys and rightys

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Although it does not mindfully keep guard in the small mountain fields, the scarecrow does not stand in vain
Bukkoku
 
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