Where to carry rescue-style knife on person?

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I'd like to get a Spyderco Rescue Jr. and carry it every day on my person, so it would be available to me whether I'm in my own car or a passenger in someone else's.

My question is, where could I carry such a knife where it's inobtrusive and yet instantly accessible? I'm thinking waistband carry is out because of seat belts. I though I'd ask you fine folks for your opinion.
 
I carry a knife in my waistband every day and I have have no problem accessing it while seated in my car with a lapbelt on. I carry a large Sebenza clipped in my waistband just in front of my right hip. I find that I can sit or stand and I don't even notice its there. With the lanyard especially its quite easy to pull out even when seated in a car with the lapbelt. Putting it back isn't quite as easy but in a rescue situation that wouldn't be so important.

Waist works find for me. Frequently while stuck in traffic I'll pull my knife and fiddle with it while waiting to drive on. I think the waist is your best option.
 
Originally posted by Lord Cthulhu
I carry a knife in my waistband every day and I have have no problem accessing it while seated in my car with a lapbelt on.
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Exactly how is the knife positioned in your waistband?
 
Well lets see....its clipped inside my pants wasteband kind of above my righthand pocket. The bit of the handle with the lanyard rests just on the point of my hip. My belt usually goes over the clip so I don't ware out my belt. Its as simple as that.:)
 
If this is going to be a safety item, I think I you could put it just about anywhere within easy arms reach, then simply have a lanyard on it, like mentioned above, to facilitate draw.
 
Originally posted by Lord Cthulhu
Well lets see....its clipped inside my pants wasteband kind of above my righthand pocket. The bit of the handle with the lanyard rests just on the point of my hip. My belt usually goes over the clip so I don't ware out my belt. Its as simple as that.:)
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I'll try that with my Spyderco Dragonfly. Looks like I'll need a lanyard, though.
 
Originally posted by Marion David Poff
If this is going to be a safety item, I think I you could put it just about anywhere within easy arms reach, then simply have a lanyard on it, like mentioned above, to facilitate draw.
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Yeah, looks like I need a lanyard. Now where did I put my ParaCord 550?
 
Another option would be the neck sheaths for folders, it hangs of a ball-chain.

I think blade tech sells them

www.blade-tech.com

Or the front breast pocket of the shirt.

The advantages of the neck sheath is that you can take it out of your shirt and over seat belt during driving and then put it back for low profile carry.

Or finally a especially made kydex sheath for belt high carry.
 
Originally posted by Lord Cthulhu
I carry a large Sebenza clipped in my waistband just in front of my right hip.
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Doesn't that poke you when you sit? I just tried with my Dragonfly and got poked.
 
Try angling it. If you put it perpendicular to you it will poke you but at a slight angle towards the inside of your leg you shouldn't even know its there.
 
How about carrying the knife in a manor that is most convient to you for EDC and buying another knife and leaving clipped somewhere in the car where you can get to it(map pocket?).

Heck, yet another reason to buy a new knife!

S.
 
While not a rescue knife, nor is it on my person, I have a Coleman-Western hunting knife wedged between the seat cushions and immediately under the seat belt latch in my truck, as a self-rescue/anti-carjacker knife. (I keep it, because it has sentimental value, as it was from my dad several years ago. I can't really fault it as a bad knife, but the handle is that krubber stuff that I first used as a pencil eraser!)

Matt in Texas
 
If wherever you normally or comfortably carry a knife doesn't work well for when a car, you can reposition the knife while you're in the car (clipping it to the seat belt might work) or keep another knife in the car. You can hang a neck knife (or any other) from the mirror. Glove box or other closed compartment might be a good idea because if you're in an accident anything that's not secured could go flying and not be where you left it. I wear my boots outside my jeans and I can clip a knife inside my boot which is very easy to draw when belted in. If you don't wear boots maybe an ankle sheath or something?
 
The further suggestion of buying another knife is not a bad one, though it will not help to have a knife pre-positioned in your car while you are in someone else's.

The suggestion of getting a sheat for it, is a good one. Mike Sastre is known for his sheaths for the Spyderco Clipits, and he can set you up with one or two that will greatly improve the range of carry. Like one said, neck carry, or even IWB.
 
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