Tip up or tip down?

How do you prefer to carry your folding knife?

  • Tip up.

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  • Tip down.

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  • Don't care.

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gajinoz

gajinoz

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This has probably been discussed ad nauseum before but i haven't seen anything on it recently and it's a question I've been thinking about a bit lately.

Do you prefer tip up or down carry? Also, why do you prefer one over the other?
 
I like tip up carry, it just puts my hand on the opening stud faster for me
at least.
 
I prefer tip up for all the usual reasons, but in the end, it doesn't matter as I'm a very big fan of the axis lock and axis lock knives are mandate tip up carry.
 
I've come to find tip-up more comfortable for opening the knife, but I always liked tip-down for safety. I never let it interfere in choosing a knife, although if I have a choice, I generally move a clip to tip-up now.
 
It depends on the individual knife for me, assuming it has both clip options. Although I must say that I think I have slightly more of them set up for tip-up carry.
 
Tip down for ease of use and opening speed although my EDC is a seb, I wish they were available tip down.
 
very very much prefer tip up myself, also all my fav stuff is tip up except my crawford KFF and perfigo,
 
definitely tip up. I find this consistently places the thumb stud/hole right at my thumb-tip, which allows for easiest opening.
 
I prefer tip-up at work, since the flour I'm constantly flinging around gunks up the pivot of a tip-down knife. Outside of work, it really doesn't matter, although I'll never carry a tip-down plungelock automatic. Too easy to get a blade in my balls.
 
I carry both, but my preference is tip up. It's just easier for me to draw. And all my balisongs (maybe all balisongs with a clip?) are tip up. Unfortunately, Spyderflies have an unreliable latch and consequently has opened in my pocket before. Otherwise, all my other tip up knives work beautifully.
 
Depends on the lock type & opening device.

If a liner lock/frame lock, I prefer tip up, so it does not open in my pocket accidentally.

If an axis lock or a lock back, it depends on whether it has a stud or a hole: stud=tip up, hole=tip down.

I guess when it comes down to it:

I like the tip down, with a thumb hole, so I can just pinch the blade by the hole, draw the knife from my pocket & flick my wrist down, to drop the handle into my palm, all in one motion.
 
tip down for most of the reasons you guys like tip up. For me, it's easier to hit the thumbstud.
Like Esav, I dont let it influence my knife choices.
 
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