To lanyard or not to lanyard...

[Will Power]

Looks like I was wrong about lanyard holes being a newer tendency on Traditional folders On the other hand, they were wrong even back then

Here's a particular favourite of mine, some excellent Stag punched through like vandalism in my book at least How stellar it would be without it....pointless on a small pocket-knife.

 

[jackknife]

Looks like I was wrong about lanyard holes being a newer tendency on Traditional folders On the other hand, they were wrong even back then

Here's a particular favourite of mine, some excellent Stag punched through like vandalism in my book at least How stellar it would be without it....pointless on a small pocket-knife.

Will, you feel like I do abut shields on a nice stag handle. To me, it's a kind of desecration, like a hole through a perfectly good knife.

Also I wonder if lanyard holes are a modern invention? I don't recall seeing them on the knives in that famous photo of the knives brought up from the wreck of the riverboat Arabia.

 

[biomed]

The only slipjoints of mine that have lanyards are single ended.

 

[Will Power]

J jackknife Good point Carl if there were any on that steamboat with lanyard wounds, I think the silt would've covered up the hole quite right too

 

[kamagong]

Looks like I was wrong about lanyard holes being a newer tendency on Traditional folders On the other hand, they were wrong even back then

Here's a particular favourite of mine, some excellent Stag punched through like vandalism in my book at least How stellar it would be without it....pointless on a small pocket-knife.

Will, you feel like I do abut shields on a nice stag handle. To me, it's a kind of desecration, like a hole through a perfectly good knife.

Here's a knife to tick you both off. Stag, with both a shield and a lanyard hole.

 

[JohnDF]

No lanyard, it always seems to get in the way of using the knife. No bails either, for the same reason.

 

[Prester John]

No lanyard, it always seems to get in the way of using the knife. No bails either, for the same reason.

Pretty much in agreement, but a scout/camp knife would look funny without a bail.

 

[willintheweeds]

I see a lanyard's utility with cub scouts, even older kids in a troop, they are less likely to lose something if it is tied to them. Kids in my pack would leave their proverbial heads if not for being attached at the neck.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Lanyards and fobs, always a consideration in using, I agree on the SAK folders I use to put them on those, but like the OP when I went to use the 'tools' of the knife, it would get in the way...a lot..so I removed them as well as the attachment thingy also. I do have a fob on my SAK Executive which rides in a slip sheath, the bobtail fob aids in removing it from my pocket and hasn't encumbered my use of the tools on that particular size folder.

Now on knives that I carry in sheaths, I do prefer a bobtail fob to aid in retrieval as well as in being decorative. Like this Lionsteel Bolus folder

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

And on fixed blades where the knife is in so far that having the bobtail fob on there also aids in drawing the knife from the sheath. This was a very nice knife made by John April @john april
IMG_1564 by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

But on 'normal' traditional knives you can just drop them in the pocket and carry just fine, like my recent Boker Congress rides in my watch pocket and it would seem silly with a hole in the handle for a lanyard/fob

IMG_7278 by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

So for me, it varies, for some, they just never feel the need, it is a personal thing I think for each person,
G2

 

[Bartleby]

A peanut with a lanyard hole is a bit of a grail feature for me

Uncle Henry 12UH Roadie would fit the bill.

 

[meako]

I just knocked up a bail and lanyard for this as a St Valentines Day gift for the Countess...wherein lies another factor of the discussion...see the tinkering sub forum for more dtails.

 

[abcdef]

Fobs and lanyards help keep the bail out of the way when I close the knife. I'd probably remove the bail if I did not fob it. Since I seldom cut anything, they really just serve to frame the bead.