Tasman Pocket Clip am I about to break it ?

[Wowbagger]

You know me and pocket clips. Or maybe you don't. I get a bit fixated at times and can't let it go until it is just right.

Often I take the clip off and bend it in a vise with padded jaws etc.
Some one enlightened me that we can hook a loop a paracord behind it, while on the knife and pull.
I do that when I think the screws / handle can take it no problem.
This Tasman has one big O' screw anchoring the clip so I figured I would be lazy and pull on the sucker.
WELL !

This here Ti clip seems to be a different animal than my spring steel clips. See the photo. I pulled way out on it and it feels like it would rather die than be persuaded to alter it's proclivity. It feels like I am going to break it off.

Any one broken one of these while gently bending it out for a less tight grip on your pocket ?
The clip is excellent; it can accommodate my thick winter pants and still grips my light / thin pants very well. It is just that my thinner pants I have to use two hands to clip 'er on. That handle is extra grippy because Spyderco didn't put the oval disc molded onto the handle under the clip contact point as they have on other models. I suppose they have their reasons.

So I want to lessen the clip grip. ? Shall I just keep bending it out ? ? Should I remove the clip and vise it ?

Should I just shut up and use it as is ?



aaaaannnnnnnd we didn't change it one little bit. I'm wanting a few sheets of paper gap there.

 

[SaintZe]

Can't say I've broken one yet, but I haven't bent it nearly that much. As for this:

That handle is extra grippy because Spyderco didn't put the oval disc molded onto the handle under the clip contact point as they have on other models. I suppose they have their reasons.

It's the result of the Salt series still using FRN molds from the Delica/Endura 3 line. Sal has previously stated that we'll see a CQI moving over to the 4th generation molds at some point in the near-ish future.

 

[brownshoe]

Not everyone thinks that change is an improvement. Some like a super grippy clip, G&G Hawk have a levered clip design to give good grip and good release to remove and replace a knife.