Where do you carry your knives?

Al has a good idea with the cargo shorts. You could gradually work up to filling every pocket with blades for an "extreme" run. Sort of like marching with a full pack. Just be sure to wear an extra-heavy belt. I don't run but at work a wave in its sheath is at my side with a paragon elephant in my cargo shorts pocket. I'm not fond of clips because of the obviousness and the loose pockets are easy to access with one hand. For security get shorts with velcro flap pockets. A possible ploblem though could be the knife banging against your leg whilst running.

jeff
 
For jogging, I would reccomend
carrying your knife in your hand. As
to say, this would almost require you
take along a folder, but when you are
doing something like jogging, in your
hand has to be the quickest place to
keep a knife for fastest deployment.

I carry my knives via clip, tipup in
my right pocket. I really only carry
folders, if I have a fixed blade it
will be attached inside my jacket in
an upside down fashion on the left
side of my body, in the chest area.

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I am perpetually of the t-shirt and jeans crowd; a larger folder (lately rotating through Krait, Starmate, M2 Stryker) in right front pocket, against seam, always. Sometimes also a smaller and/or serrated knife (lately BF Native or Pink Cricket) in right front waistband, behind first belt loop , at a 45 degree angle. Micra in the left front pocket with keys, and an AG Russell Wharncliffe Whittler in fifth pocket with Photons. Oh, and for the last week or so, a Spydie Mini-Police on a neck chain.
 
I carry mine in my right front pocket. I used to carry it in the right back pocket but had too many cases of the clip getting caught up on things (and scratching my wife's mini-van!!).
 
Today- Wegner: RF pocket, Fred Perrin mini-Tanto: neck, CRK&T M16: LF pocket (now in briefcase), Sebertech M4 & tiny SAK: on keychain, Normal load often includes a FB or neck knife in a static-cord/IWB carry at my left side at 45 degree angle for RH cross draw or LH reverse (Drawpoint) grip. For picnics w/ my sweetie, my favourite Opinel for bread & cheese tucked down in the basket...

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I carry my 8" Greco Persian in a slip sheath kind of Nordic Pouch with a lanyard attached to the sheath.

With shorts, I slide the sheath into my waistband and tie the lanyard loosely around the outside of the waist so the sheath won't slip down my pants leg.

With baggy, pleated trousers, like Dockers, I put the sheath in my strong hand front pocket and run the lanyard up to and under my belt, and then down my pants. Friction holds the lanyard mildly taut, and the lanyard holds the sheath at the top and rear of my pocket.

With overalls, I put the sheath in the side leg pocket with the diagonal top, and run the lanyard up to the buttoned side vents and let it hang down my leg.

If you don't wear overalls yet, you owe it to your self to buy a pair of Key Overalls, 4" over your waist size and the same as your normal inseam.
With overalls, you can carry all sorts of things on a belt underneath the overalls, and whatever you carry feels much lighter and the belt feels much more comfortable because it doesn't need to hold up your pants.
You can very easily reach down inside your overalls from the side and pull out amazing and surprising things, sort of like the little car at the circus that has an endless number of clowns come out of it.


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I carry mostly small (< 3") folders in my pockets, unclipped (usually they're clipless anyway).

If I have denims, one is usually in the 5th pocket, and another in the front pocket.

Problem with pocket carry is the lint. Only takes a small ball of fuzz in the blade stop area to prevent a lockup. This happened yesterday with my Baby Goddard.
 
I currently carry a Gerber LST in my pants pocket but I'm looking for a bit better steel, I have one of those Toollogic cards in my wallet, a Swiss army knife in each glove compartment, an original Leatherman in my backpack, a plastic handled Ericksson 'Mora knife' in the trunk of each car, and just added a budget fiberglass handled Chinese hatchet in each trunk (the steel is on the soft side but that's ok for the expected abuse that they will receive). I have different knives 'in reserve' that I sometimes swap with the above.
 
Let's see...different knives for different occasions:
1) Casual dress around school, work, home- folder or Scaetha or Seraph (both Sean Perkins knives) in front right pocket.

2) Clinic attire- Perkins Seraph in back pocket, soon to be replaced on occasion by Honey Appaloosa Case Canoe in front right.

3) Walk in park with dogs: folder or Perkins in front right and Emerson La Griffe or REKAT Fang around neck. Also Surefire 3P at night. If you haven't seen one of the Surefire lithium flashlights you really have to check them out. Every bit as bright as my car's bright lights, no kidding! Only an hour run-time, though.
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4) Camping- folder in pocket maybe, neck knife (maybe) and khukuri or other decent size to large belt knife on belt.

5) Cycling- folder in under-the-seat bag or rear jersey pocket and neck knife (La Griffe because it is stainless and very light).

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I'm surprised how many responders like to carry a clip knife in their back pants pocket. I was taught that's "the sucker's pocket" because it's so easy for pickpockets to access. In fact, I know several people who've had wallets and/or passports lifted from their back pocket and never suspected a thing at the time. I do, however, like the suggestion of carrying a clip folder at a 45-degree angle across the opposite side of the waistband. I'm trying that out right now, and it doesn't seem to dig into my internals the way it does when clipped vertically. I wonder if I sit forcefully I can launch the knife into the air, sort of a dramatic "quick draw."
 
Let's see...generally just my Axis or GT in my right front pocket. On days I feel frisky i might carry a VG there or behind the hip in the waistband.

Been experimenting with the implementation of neck knives in other carry modes, such as with shorts. Using a long piece of paracord tied around my waist and letting the sheath dangle along my hip under my shorts. Easy to get to and almost impossible to see, carry a MOD Razorback and a Dawson neck knife like that sometimes..

YEK

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I carry my Crawford Kasper Fighting Folder without a clip in my right front pocket in a In the Pocket Knife Holster from GunVideo. This keeps my knife concealed but readily accessible.

My SwissTool is in a horizontal nylon pouch which came with the KFF. I carry it on the left side right by the belt buckle so that it doesn't slide off when I unbuckle my belt. On the right side on my belt, I carry my Leatherman micra in a pouch designed for the mini tool. It fits it great, and now I don't have to worry about it falling out of my pocket or rusting from pocket moisture.

Axel

 
Now thats school started I won't be carrying my knives as much or going to bladeforums as much as I would like.
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But when I do carry my knives its on my neck,in my right pocket of my cargo shorts,or in my waistband when wearing basketball shorts.
Kestrel
 
Several knives catch a ride with me everyday,
Left front pocket supports a SAK Executive and a 5 bladed Case
Right front has a Random task clipped with another chisel edged SAK single bladed folder keeping tabs of the bottom of the pocket
Right side belt, today, has a Stingray skin lace wrapped Boye Basic 1 in a leather sheath.
Right back pocket, SAK Cowboy, that's the food cutting knife.

Now the interesting thing that I do sometimes is to clip a Boye folder to my T-Shirt, at the back of the neck, light enough to not even know it's there. Weird? reckon so, at home I also clip the Boye to the underwear as I stroll around the house, the wife thinks/knows I'm a little off.
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The front right pocket and belt knives change on a daily basis, don't want the other knives to feel left out you know...

G2

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I carry a Spyderco clipped in my left (weak-side) back pocket, alternating between a Civilian and a Harpy or Merlin.
For utility cutting, I carry a SAK Tinker in front-right pocket.

In deferrence to the pickpockets, my dummy wallet with my gas cards and non-essential stuff in stowed in the right rear pocket. My real wallet is in my left-front side (with credentials and assorted official stuff)
 
For jogging, a Voyager 4" clip or tanto tucked inside my jogging shorts behind the hip or small of the back. Unnoticeable with a T-shirt or sweatshirt. For colder weather when heavier clothing is necessary (either jogging or x-country skiing) a Frost 4.5" laminated fixed blade in a neck sheath, tucked inside the sweatshirt. Both modes of carry are secure yet you hardly notice them.
 
When dressed up, I carry a small, clipless Camillus pen blade. It won't do a darn thing for defense, but it cuts.
As for casual, clipped inside right front pocket or pencil pocket (like carpenter pants). I HATE having things in my back pocket.
When camping, I may have a large knife strapped to my pack, depending on what else I have packed.
 
hey i'm the hawk with dixie knife works and when i jog i carry my knife in the back on my shorts dead center. i have the clip on the out side and i wear docker shorts. i find this to most comfortable. when i jog is carry a gigand spectrum.
 
When I go jogging I carry either a BM emerson CQC7 or a spyderco endura clipit, inside the waistband on my strong side. I find that this does not interfere with sit-ups and streching exercises. Hope this helps.

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