What Pocket Do You Carry Your Traditional Knife In?

Front left. Front right is wallet. Knives in the watch pocket get squeezed out when I sit down. Absolutely nothing in the back pockets, how the heck anyone can stand sitting on stuff is beyond me.
 
SubSpace said:
Right front pocket alongside a front pocket wallet to keep it vertical. I hate it when a knife lays horizontal in my pocket. Except for peanut/Pemberton sized knives, which is why I like them so much.
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Same here.
 
Well... it depends on the size of the knife. As a lefty, I higly prefer on smaller knives watchpocket carry (though it´s on the right side) with jeans or the left front pocket. When the knife is little too big or generally on bigger knives I prefer left back pocket carry with a pack of handkerchiefs or a bandana or next to the wallet, I don´t realize the knife at all.

Not shirt or jacket carry for me and my traditionals... ;)
 
Right front pocket, sometimes the watch pocket if its a smaller pattern and Im in jeans. My dress pants have a little seperate pocket at the bottom of the front right pocket which is ideal for slipjoints. I can carry other things in the pocket as well without scratching my baby.
 
Right front pocket always, unless wearing a belt sheath. As I've only begun carrying a knife again and being a knife knut for the last two or three years they go in the right pocket because I have always always always put wallet and keys in my left front pocket , everything else in right front pocket, and I cannot/will not change that habit at this point. Over a dozen years of wallet carrying in the left pocket makes a habit that more firmly rooted than the knife carrying habit. I will not try a new wallet/keys carry method for anything. Nothing at all goes in my back pockets except slips of paper or a bandanna, but I've adopted Carl's method of putting the bandanna in my pocket with my knife and other items to keep them from falling out.

For the knives specifically, if they are small enough to go in the watch pocket, I tend to do that, with a Bic if the pocket is large enough. My GEC #15 fits the watch pocket perfectly. My other most common EDC is my Sodbuster, and at around 3 7/8 (I think) I would consider it a medium sized knife, not a large knife (although it's about the largest folder I carry now) and it is too big for watch pocket carry, so it just goes in the side pocket under the bandanna. The rare time I carry anything I'd consider a large folder, like my #42 trader, it sometimes goes in a belt pouch, but even a knife that size I'm perfectly comfortable with in pocket carry.

When fighting extreme exhaustion with large amounts of caffeine what could have been a three word post becomes two chunky paragraphs. So to summarize: Right front pocket.
 
Django.cj said:
Front left. Front right is wallet. Knives in the watch pocket get squeezed out when I sit down. Absolutely nothing in the back pockets, how the heck anyone can stand sitting on stuff is beyond me.
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I fully agree. Sitting on wallets, especially chunkier wallets, but even smaller ones, is something I just can't fathom.
 
Right front pocket for 25 years now. Keys in that pocket as well.

Left front pocket keeps wallet, tube of chapstick and a Fenix LD01.
 
I use front left, front right, and the watch pocket. I've temporarily lost a few knives as a result of less than tight back pockets. The peanut usually rides in the watch pocket. Big 'uns sit in the left and right pockets, suspended by a lanyard if they've got a bail, and in a pocket sheath if they haven't.
 
When I started adding a smaller traditional back to my edc a while ago, it went in the watch pocket. It quickly wore a hole through my watch pocket on 2 pairs of pants due to pinching against my other knife. Now the traditional goes in the front right pocket with everything else. Scratches are just character right?
 
If possible I like to chain (non-clip/sheath traditional) knives to a belt or loop with a quick release, otherwise they end up lost, prefer to keep them in the watch pocket if they fit.
 
pertinux said:
Magic!

... I have not yet met a pocket that doesn't like a knife.

~ P.
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I'll introduce you some time. The left leg pocket on Faded Glory carpenter jeans doesn't do well with traditionals. Apart from that, my answer would have to be "yes". Left front, right front, watch pocket, back pockets, ruler pocket, shirt pocket, coat pocket...none is complete without a pocket knife.
 
Right front pocket for me. And I only carry one knife.
I never really change that at all. For example, my Peanut could easily stay in my watch pocket; yet my hand goes instinctively into my right front pocket.

Fausto
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I try to limit the options to a pocket on a pair of pants that I'm currently wearing.
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Or, depending on the knife, a belt sheath.
 
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