Tip up or tip down carry?

I usually just leave the clip where the manufacturer put it. I don't have a strong preference one way or another, but if a specific knife carries better one way I'll switch the clip.
 
Really depends on the knife, ZT 0300 tip up, pulling it out puts the flipper right at my index finger. Para 2 tip down, pulling it out of the pocket I pinch the spydie hole and drop it open in one motion.
 
Depend... Tip up when carrying in the front pocket and tip down it the back pocket of my jeans
 
People who carry tip down have no souls and are causing poverty, disease and global climate change. If you had any regard for Earth, polar bears or humanity you'd carry tip up!
 
BenchCo Spydermade said:
People who carry tip down have no souls and are causing poverty, disease and global climate change. If you had any regard for Earth, polar bears or humanity you'd carry tip up!
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^^This. I've never heard a more accurate and true statement in my life.
 
K.O.D. said:
I prefer tip up. The ladies like tip up as well...
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Outstanding.

This is now my answer every time someone brings this up to me.


Also, how great is it to be living in a time where knife designs are so numerous, they flow like the salmon of Capistrano and we can even have this debate?
 
BenchCo Spydermade said:
People who carry tip down have no souls and are causing poverty, disease and global climate change. If you had any regard for Earth, polar bears or humanity you'd carry tip up!
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True, but what about the children? Why doesn't anyone think about the children?
 
For me it's really no big deal. I'm not concerned with loosing a second or two in my fast draw...but in my perfect world of comfort and global warming (not!) I'd carry large knives tip down and others tip up.
 
With all this tip up and tip down, maybe I should try tip sideways...
 
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What if it's nicer than the stock one? What is wrong with making it unique? Personally, I like my Spydie Native 5 since it is the only one like it in the world and I enjoy "Pimpin'". Stock knives may be nice but they're BORING most of the time. My .02
 
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What if it's nicer than the stock one? What is wrong with making it unique? Personally, I like my Spydie Native 5 since it is the only one like it in the world and I enjoy "Pimpin'". Stock knives may be nice but they're BORING most of the time. My .02
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In your case your really good at what you do that's a nice knife. And like I said it's not that I don't like custom knives period it's just certain ones that are unique the way they are or when people do a horrible job (not in your case) and ruin the knife and i have nothing against them it's just me personally I feel certain knives were built the way they were for a reason
 
RevDevil said:
However it comes from the factory or the maker is the way it goes into my pocket.
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+1

Usually this, unless it's a flipper, then I will change it to tip up if able.

I have a few knives BM 635, CRKT Ripple that are only tip down and I still carry them without issue.
Only think is sometimes I will forget the orientation and my hand will automatically pull the knife as if it were tip up.
 
Down, so the blood and other fluids flow away from the pivot and into my pocket, for future use in gravy. Up, so I have the crucial extra split second for deployment during mass retail spec-ops security missions. Down, so the palmed knife isn't as easily noticed at the baccarat table. Up, so I'm instantly clutching a handle for a blunt force blow, or a car window break. Down, so my custom paracord, mammoth tooth, carved skull bead lanyard fob curls down in my pocket like a friendly finger. Up, so my custom paracord mammoth tooth, carved skull bead lanyard/fob provides an easy grab or worry squeeze during stressfull moments like the 'inquirer' reads in the checkout line at the superstore......
 
I'm not super picky; I prefer tip-down but I'm too lazy to switch the configuration on most of the default-tip-up knives. The only time I'll go out of my way to change it is with flippers - the way I draw the knife out of my pocket (thumb and middle finger on either side of the knife) leaves my index finger poised right over the flipper and I don't have to change my grip to deploy it. It's dramatically faster than tip-up, at least for me.
 
Tip up for me now. Used to be down before I carried a Kershaw that gave me an option.
I did have a premature opening in my pocket when I was practicing tip up which opened a 1" cut at the corner of my favorite camo cargos.
 
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