They keep falling out of my pockets

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Thus far, I've managed to find them again, eventually.

Any suggestions? I've noticed certain ones are more prone to it than others.
 
A suggestion I've seen kicked around is to carry your slipjoint wrapped in a handkerchief. Not only will it make it harder for it to fall out, but you also reap the benefits of having a handkerchief at your disposal. I've been carrying my traditionals in a leather pocket slip and wrap my handkerchief around that. Better friction and keeps it upright in the pocket.
 
Usually I only have this problem in pants with shallow pockets, but I do have a pair of shorts or two like that and I use a small chambray pocket square (smaller and less bulky than a full size handkerchief) pushed in over the top of it. Keeps it in place well. I'm looking forward to trying a leather pocket slip too, to see how that works.
 
Glad you've always found them but yes if this keeps happening you're gonna end up losing one. I guess it depends on the style of pants, etc. I've generally never had a problem with it but if I did the hanky or a pocket slip. You can make one out of any piece of leather really. Easy to do and cheap. Keep is more secure.
 
My problem is not them falling out but rather moving around in the pocket and ending up horizontal across the thigh! Definitely gonna look into a pocket slip to increase the friction and keep the knife vertical.
 
Just put the knife down in the pocket where you want it, then shove a loosely folded or wadded up bandana down on top of it. I've never lost a knife using the bandana keeper. If you need your knife, just reach down around the bandana and get it. No fuss, no muss.
 
I've never yet had a knife fall out of a pocket. More often the issue is that I forget to take it out of the pocket and when I go looking for it the next day I have to rescue it from the pants in the laundry hamper. I've had a couple of times where a knife actually went through the washer. Luckily it was an Alox handled SAK so no harm done.

I generally carry in the bottom of my right front pocket, or in my back left pocket beside or under my wallet.
 
I wear khaki pants with slanted front pockets which are prone to dropping change, knives, phones, etc. I use my "wallet" which is nothing more than my cards/ID with money wrapped around with a rubber band holding it all together and slide a knife under the rubber band and it stays put. The rubber provides enough grip to keep it at the bottom of my pocket and not move about. I imagine you might get the same results if you toss a rubber band around your knife and drop it in your pocket, just test it out before you start relying on it.
 
Depends on the knife for me. My Buck 500 ejected several time due to the slick bolsters and I finally lost it. I've lost pocket carried Micras this way too.

My Opinel doesn't eject and adding a lanyard to the Micra has stopped ejects with that one.

Will have to consider the bandana trick.
 
I make good use of the watch pocket in jeans, which are often everyday wear for me. That's where the single-blade lockback goes. The pocket holds everything from a Buck 112 (or 500) down to a Camillus #2, although a wear pattern soon shows with the bigger ones. The little Swiss Classic goes in right front pocket, from where it never strays on its own. (Maybe I'm lucky?)

I too have had to go hamper-diving to retrieve a knife, usually the Classic.

The one time I actually lost a knife, it was my own damn fault. I was (stupidly) playing mumbledy-peg with my original Imperial Scout knife in a park with loads of fall leaves on the ground. Somehow, I threw it where I couldn't find it again. It's still there, I suppose, changed by 50+ years of rain and snow back into its constituent iron-oxide parts (well, except for the plastic scales).
 
I wear glasses so I just use my eyeglass cloth for the Vic ALWAYS in my back pocket. I don't really but anything around the one in my front but have been leaning toward picking up a handkerchief or a bandanna.
 
I wear jeans. Stuff doesn't fall out of the pockets.
 
Front pocket of my scrubs shirts means the only time I loose them is when rolling around with my kids- learned the hard way the day I got and lost my Lloyd Swayback Wharncliffe in mammoth!! My wonderful wife found it for me the next day!

The only other time I remember loosing a slipjoint was in the mail to New Zealand
 
Pocket slips are wonderful things, but (removed no BF dealer member) and several other places actually have small folding knife sheaths with pocket clips on them to put your trusty pocket knives into. Keeps them securely in your pocket at the top where you don't have to go searching around for it. Both are also great for keeping the bolsters from getting beat up by pocket change, keys...etc.

The last sheaths I bought only cost 4 or 5 bucks for the sheaths and about 5 for the slips...somebody had ones from CRKT on sale a while back for 3 bucks a piece, I bought a dozen of them for me and my friends

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I like jeans with large watch/coin pocket as that's where I like to carry mine. Also keeps it safe from my keys.
 
SOFileworks said:
Pocket slips are wonderful things, but (removed no BF dealer member) and several other places actually have small folding knife sheaths with pocket clips on them to put your trusty pocket knives into. Keeps them securely in your pocket at the top where you don't have to go searching around for it. Both are also great for keeping the bolsters from getting beat up by pocket change, keys...etc.

The last sheaths I bought only cost 4 or 5 bucks for the sheaths and about 5 for the slips...somebody had ones from CRKT on sale a while back for 3 bucks a piece, I bought a dozen of them for me and my friends
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That is exactly what I'm looking for!!!
 
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