Tip-up or Tip-Down?

[dtownknifekid]

I like tip up with the blade spine against the seam of my pocket.

 

[knivesandguns]

So which are you asking about, how I carry or how I see others carry?



Glad I don't live in that "perfect world". It sounds limited and boring.



Yeah, right. I think you need therapy. Have you ever heard of the concept of free will?



We may be in the minority, but we have some good company. Massad Ayoob designed his Spyderco collaboration knife tip-down only, and it stayed that way for the recent Sprint Run.

As for what I see on other people's pockets, most of those clips appear to be non-removable on cheap knives that I wouldn't carry on a bet.

Both how you carry and how you see most people carry (post how you see how most people carry) I'll just make a different poll for that later.

 

[Charlie Mike]

Can't wave draw a tip down folder...

 

[Guy Vanderveken]

Tip down, all natural motion, I am forever struggling to get to the thumb stud on tip up. Index finger and thumb at the fulcrum of the blade, twist and lock with my controlling fingers allways ending up where they started. Simple and it works for me

Not a fan of the wave Charlie, but I understand the love.

Cheers,
Guy

 

[mdauben]

I honestly don't care. I own knives that open both ways and most of them I would have to pull them out and look at them to tell you which was which.

I just voted "Tip DOWN" as the only time I have cut myself on a pocketed knife was a Tip UP folder that slipped open while I was reaching into my pocket for something else. I ended up bleeding all over the back of my SUV.

 

[RevDevil]

I honestly don't care. I own knives that open both ways and most of them I would have to pull them out and look at them to tell you which was which.

I just voted "Tip DOWN" as the only time I have cut myself on a pocketed knife was a Tip UP folder that slipped open while I was reaching into my pocket for something else. I ended up bleeding all over the back of my SUV.

Same here. To me, it really doesn't matter. I rarely mess around with the clip position on any folder I have. I carry it th way it comes from the company.

 

[melt]

The one thing I've learned from this thread is that knife makers should be more considerate of a buyer's preference and offer a four-way clip on their knives, such as found on Spyderco's current Delica and Endura.
I prefer tip up, but that is mostly because some the quality folders I bought early on had the clip in this position, and I'm a firm believer in muscle memory in a stressful situation. I always carry tip up because I always have, and I don't want to have to second guess in an emergency. If the first few good folders I had owned had been tip down, then I would probably use only tip down carry. And for what it is worth, most of the folks I see carry tip up if the knife allows it, but that doesn't mean one method is right or wrong. It's a matter of what suits a person best, but I don't buy knives that don't allow tip up carry. And I don't know who or where to start to have holes tapped into the knife to allow me to make a strictly tip down knife into a tip up. Besides, the added cost of having that done would mean I could just buy a nicer tip up knife to begin with. Different strokes for different folks.

 

[popopine]

down.

 

[ibute21]

Tip up for me. Just so used to it because I exclusively bought axis lock knives when I got into knives. My last purchase was a para2 and it came tip down. It just felt so odd carrying it like that, so when I got home I flipped the clip instantly.