What do you carry, and how do you carry it?

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I have a few trappers, some small stockmans, larger stockmans etc. But I also own alot of kershaws, spydercos, bucks and such that have clips. I end up having a clipped knife in my pocket because I don't like the way the traditionals ride in my pocket. Seems to me the only comfortable way to carry one is either have a small knife like nothing larger than a med. stockman or take a full size and I stick it in m back pocket next to my wallet so it stays upright and not moving around. I must say since work has changed dress code the dress pants I wear now have a small pocket inside the right front pocket, almost like it was made to keep a pocket knife in place! :) Wish all pants were like that.

So the question is, what do you carry and how do you carry it.

David
 
I carry a few few different styles. Some FB pockets by Gene Ingram,Jason Cutter & Arno bernard. Folders custom linerlock, a couple WH & Laguoile prestige.

Carrying usually just in pocket, change pocket in jeans is ideal.

I'm really happy with laguoile, great fit & finish good edge retention. AS it is the largest blade length I carry as a pocket knife 3 inches I found a WH pocket sheath with clip fits great, stopped it floating around in pocket.

Mitch
 
I carry a knife I made for myself with at tip up pocket clip and a Wharncliff blade. I hardly ever carried one of my own knives until this one but this one has a thinner blade than I have found on most knives I've bought or had made.

I have always carried folders over fixed blades. I hardly ever need anything other than a single blade but I also have a Swiss Tool that is on my hip in a sheath and I routinely have either a Micra by Leatherman or a SAK on me from time to time as well.
 
I carry a SAK Soldier every day in the right front pocket with my keys and change. I have to adjust the contents of that pocket occasionally during the course of a workday, but I don't even notice it anymore.

In the left front pocket, I carry my wallet, a pen, and a slipjoint or some 3" locking knife (Spyderco Calypso, usually). Both the pen and the knife are held in place by the wallet, with one item on either side of the wallet. This works well, except for when I need to pull my wallet out! :)

I may eventually buy a Mission Wallet or perhaps the one Chris Reeve sells as a way to put the pen or the knife (or both) into the body of the wallet.

Matthew
 
Currently:
SAK Cybertool 41 on belt.
Queen Congress on RF watch pocket (barely fits).
LM radio shack squirt on keychain LFP.
(SOG powerlock in bag)

When I am carrying a traditional, it always goes in the watch pocket of my jeans (seems like Lee jeans have a larger (longer?) watch pocket than other brands).
 
Left front Wrangler's pocket has my truck keys and a can of dip. My right front jeans pocket has the other set of keys, a small change purse, and a 4" congress pocketknife. On my belt rightside is a WAVE in a horizontal sheath, behind it is one magazine pouch. On the left side of my belt is a 45ACP pistol.
In my right rear pocket is a wallet with nothing in it--it's a decoy. In my right rear pocket is a large bandanna neatly folded.
The top right pocket on my vest has folding money. The bottom right pocket on my vest has hard money and a few Lifesavers.
The top left pocket on my vest has a pocket watch with the chain running to and through the middle button hole on the vest. The bottom left pocket on the vest has business cards.
All my ID,, drivers license, CCW etc are in a brass case along with a leather money clip, and folding address book in the left pocket of my shirt,underneath the vest.
 
I'm a lefty, so in my front left pocket is the slipjoint of the week. Thats all, no change or junk, its my knife pocket. If I'm carrying a lockback, it goes in a pouch sheath on my right hip and a L-man Sideclip goes in my left rear pocket. If I am carrying a one hander, it goes in the left rear pocket and a multitool goes on my right hip in a sheath. I rotate knives and m-tools on a weekly basis, gives me a chance to give some carry time to all my knives.
 
I am a righty so like OTguy except on the other side that pocket is for my knife and nothing else.

I even have a few slacks that I wear to work that have vertical loops sewn on the inside of the pocket so the knifes stay vertical.

The knife could range from a buck lancer, to older antiques, to a Bailey Bradshaw stag gunstock, to a Richard Rogers coke bottle. On occasions when carrying a real nice one I put it in a flapped leather pouch that Joel Chamblin (or his wife actually) gave me a few years ago.
 
I almost always have a slipjoint loose in my left front pocket with my Carmex. I've found I can comfortably carry any SJ up to about 4.5".

I rarely carry clipped folders to work any more, they're reserved primarily for working around the house and weekends. When I do they're clipped right front. If I'm not carrying a clipped folder I'll usually have a second smaller folder loose in the right front pocket. Seems more and more I have less use for the big tacticals I used to love so much.

I've played around with different methods of keeping a folder arranged in my pocket and the best thing I have found is just to get used to it being in there loose. Once you do it's hardly even noticeable.

On a side note, I love my Buck 110's but being a bigger guy I have a hard time finding a comfortable sheath for my belt. I've bought a ton of different ones and made more than a dozen of them, with only marginal comfort. Unfortunately this means when I want to carry a bigger folder I end up with a tactical clipped to my pocket instead of in a sheath on my waist (which is where I'd rather have it).
 
Mid tech crowfoot necker every day.

Spyderco milli, and para. clipped in pockets.

Thomas Zinn
 
Slipjoint (congress or stockman usually) loose in pocket. As basic as it gets I guess.
 
Left front jeans pocket, a Pro-Tech Runt, clipped on, in the pocket a small lockback that I made. Right jean pocket has a large auto Jaguar clipped in it, and on my belt is a 2 1/2" bladed straight knife I made with ironwood handles. And usually an OTF somewhere on my person. Some days I also carry a LeverLock that I made from a forum knife kit.

Charlie
 
I rotate between clipping a Kershaw Ken Onion Leek on my RF pocket, and carrying a Barlow in my change pocket in my jeans.

What other hobby allows such variety!

Regards,

Jeremy
 
At work I carry a large stockman in my back pocket standing up, next to my wallet. This makes it easier to extract while wearing gloves. At home or on the weekends I carry a smaller stockman in my right front pocket with a few coins.
 
I rotate through a number of custom slip joints of various sizes and pattern. If I carry in my front pocket, its a 4 blade congress, a 3.25 WT trapper, case 6214 jack, or Overeynder lockback, and I carry it in Den's of England leather pouch. I don't want to have the knife competing with keys, coins, etc.
If I carry in my back pocket (3.5 WT trapper, 3.75 swayback, 4 or 5.5 clip trapper) I dont use a pouch.

The Den's pouches are a very lightweight leather, have a synthetic lining to keep moisture away from the metal, and a velcro flap. Not much larger than the knife itself. I hate opening a pouch, but I hate looking at a nicked up custom slipjoint with corroded backsprings even worse.

I never carry clipped tactical knives anymore. And amazingly enough, I haven't been attacked in spite of my lack of fast-opening weaponry.
 
Since I have taken to small fb for sd, I'm not carrying clipped folders all that much anymore. For large cutting jobs, a plain large classic Seb is in a leather belt case. Which leaves room in pockets for the new slipjoint craze I have been lately involved in. Small Case stockman next to front carry wallet on left side. Larger Bailey Bradshaw semi-custom stag trapper in right. When the Eye Brand finally rolls around, the Case will be expressly for out-of-state travel in the event a knife gets robbed from the check-in bags.) with the Eye Brand taking it's place in left front pocket.
 
I currently carry a Gerber (AR-3.00) folder w/ 3" blade in my right front pocket. This knife has a lanyard hole, which allows me to affix a small quick-release key ring attached to a small chain, which is attached to my belt keeping the knife vertical in place...

I just grab the chain and follow my hand down to the knife where I find the thumb-stud as I pull it out, and viola-- out comes the blade--all one handed. This system requries any potential new knife I'm interested in have a lanyard hole. I wish every knife maker put them on their knives!!
 
I have my right front pocket dedicated to one knife and nothing else. I rotate between 4 different tacs. which clip on the pocket. All 4 carry a 4.25" blade. In my left front I caary change, a pen, and a slipjoint that rotates between a large trapper and large gunstock patterns. Done this for so long now I simply forget the knives are there until I need them.
 
I'm still carrying an old Hofritz camp knife that my mother gave me over 35 years ago. Sometimes a Bulldog wharnclif whitter or Queen #48 make it into my purse, but mostly it's the old Hofritz (peels and slices apples, cuts out magazine articles, opens cans, tightens screws... granted, I've never had much use for the awl and the bottle opener now gets used more for prying things than opening bottles, but the thing has alway been very handy and is still holding up amazingly well)
 
it all depends on what I'm carrying.

Usually my Kershaw is clipped to my right pocket which is where I keep my glasses case and spare change. Left pocket holds my wallet and an SAK or stockman of some variety. The Kershaw is the working knife and the SAK is for cutting food on break.

Some days I strap my Buck 110 to the right side of my belt in its old leather sheath (the knife is from the early 70s and in great shape, but the sheath is a little worn, so I don't carry it much... my grandfather gave me the knife, so I don't wanna lose it). But since both the Buck and Kershaw are 3.5 inch blades, I don't see any reason to carry both, and the Kershaw is carried out of habit. My cellphone is on the other side in a neato MOLLE pouch (sometimes I slip the SAK in the pouch with the phone).

Now... camping and hiking, that's a whole other story. I go all out there... look like I'm going into combat.
 
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