Why do you like tip up carry?

If the knife is not waved...then tip up/down makes zero difference to me. I can deploy them both just as fast.
 
Tip up just feels more natural when I pull the knife out its orintation is correct to just open the blade and go.

Also the only time I've ever had any knife open at all in my pocket was tip down where the blade wasnt resting against the back edge of my pocket and that allowed the tip to creep out just enough I got a bit of a poke ... thankfully just enough to warm me it had opened and no damage done.
 
For speed both can be just as fast. However under stress i give my preference to tip up. Just the way you grip the knife most of it is in your hand and you work from there.
You can just try to run towards something and deploy the knife kind of last minute before you reach it. Get yourself in a bit of a stress mode artificially while at it. If you know how to do both that is, you can compare for yourself.
 
WhiteShampoo said:
Because I like having the blade opening being towards the back of my pocket, very little chance the blade will partially open in my pocket.
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To be honest. I had to think about this one. Tip down for me, in addition to being easier for my paws, is also so I know the blade isn't open due to gravity. I can see how a loose detent could cause a blade to swing open. And when you went to grab your car keys... I bet this is even more of a concern with flippers and autos. Two types of knives I don't have experience with. Thanks. :)
 
It's less about utility for me and more about aesthetics. A tip-up clip just looks better to me than a tip-down clip. The one practical bit for me is that it seems like well designed and well placed tip-up clips are less likely to get in the way.
 
Tip down can have the blade rest againt the seam too. You just put it at the side of the pocket closer to the zipper rather than the corner closer to the hip.
 
It's a weapon thing. Tell the truth...

I have ALL my sheaths modified for tip UP. Folders, hip sheaths, and shoulder straps. All tip up.

It's faster to draw, and threaten.
Why is this topic so avoided on knife forums? Knives are weapons.

When you draw a pistol it is orientated in the defensive/offensive posture. Why should a knife be any different.

Folders drop out of an upside down sheath in a defensive posture (if you prefer)
Fixed blades fall out faster.

Tip up is purely for defense/offense. Tell the TRUTH!
Otherwise carry a Bali-song, and play around.
Moments matter!

I know... BANNED!
 
I can tell you why it is avoided. Because using a knife as a weapon is often avoided...

I use a knife regularly, but have yet to ever use a knife as a weapon (thankfully). I have been in a physical altercation when I had a knife on me, but I didn't feel the situation deserved to be escalated by my drawing of said knife.
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You are just trying to be abrasive and intentionally confrontational. This is not a bannable offense, but it is worth putting yu on the ignore list.

I will not be doing so, because I like making you look like a fool, but I am sure others will be putting you on ignore.
Z Zombie411
 
Zombie411 said:
It's a weapon thing. Tell the truth...

I have ALL my sheaths modified for tip UP. Folders, hip sheaths, and shoulder straps. All tip up.

It's faster to draw, and threaten.
Why is this topic so avoided on knife forums? Knives are weapons.

When you draw a pistol it is orientated in the defensive/offensive posture. Why should a knife be any different.

Folders drop out of an upside down sheath in a defensive posture (if you prefer)
Fixed blades fall out faster.

Tip up is purely for defense/offense. Tell the TRUTH!
Otherwise carry a Bali-song, and play around.
Moments matter!

I know... BANNED!
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Outstanding!
 
Just stating what is obvious.
I carry CCW, and knives. It has NOTHING to do with confrontation or "bravado".
It's called being prepared for all too common situations (sadly in this modern world)

Call a cardboard cutter a tool, and pretend it is NOT worthy of being called a weapon. Does not matter to me.
Call a .45 loaded with "wad cutters" a tool? Fine.
It's still a weapon.

Politically correct? Heck sir... I was born in Yonkers, and WE call a spade a spade.

Tell me how useful an OTF is as a tool. Flipper? tool right? Next time I need an OTF, I'll call Cabellas

I'm simply addressing the elephant in the room.
The thread was asking "Why Tip Up". I gave MY opinion of why.

Ask IF I have EVER used a knife as a weapon... I'll answer. Ask IF I think a knife CAN be a weapon? YES!

Too bad my thoughts, and direct answer are worthy of an ignore from you sir on a forum FULL of knife users.
I won't hold back my thoughts nor my honest answers.
Just who I am.

To answer my own question... NO! I have NEVER used a knife as a weapon, although I do carry some as such.
Cardboard, and clamshells may have a different take on that tho.

Sorry if I was too blunt.
 
Zombie411 said:
Just stating what is obvious.
I carry CCW, and knives. It has NOTHING to do with confrontation or "bravado".
It's called being prepared for all too common situations (sadly in this modern world)

Call a cardboard cutter a tool, and pretend it is NOT worthy of being called a weapon. Does not matter to me.
Call a .45 loaded with "wad cutters" a tool? Fine.
It's still a weapon.

Politically correct? Heck sir... I was born in Yonkers, and WE call a spade a spade.

Tell me how useful an OTF is as a tool. Flipper? tool right? Next time I need an OTF, I'll call Cabellas

I'm simply addressing the elephant in the room.
The thread was asking "Why Tip Up". I gave MY opinion of why.

Ask IF I have EVER used a knife as a weapon... I'll answer. Ask IF I think a knife CAN be a weapon? YES!

Too bad my thoughts, and direct answer are worthy of an ignore from you sir on a forum FULL of knife users.
I won't hold back my thoughts nor my honest answers.
Just who I am.

To answer my own question... NO! I have NEVER used a knife as a weapon, although I do carry some as such.
Cardboard, and clamshells may have a different take on that tho.

Sorry if I was too blunt.
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If speed is your number one priority, why not carry a fixed blade? Are they legal in your area?

Gain a little speed while adding a bunch of security and strength. Add on top of that, it being easier to get into play during an active altercation.
 
It feels awkward in hand with quite a few of the tip down positions on clips. Just irritates my hand.
 
NJBillK said:
If speed is your number one priority, why not carry a fixed blade? Are they legal in your area?

Gain a little speed while adding a bunch of security and strength. Add on top of that, it being easier to get into play during an active altercation.
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I do carry fixed blades. I live in Florida, and pretty much anything commercially available (within reason/good judgment?) is legal.

The only comparator I have is... carrying a firearm (pistol) with the grip in the holster, and the barrel facing your draw hand.
It's not an aggressive or confrontational issue. It's a practicality/readiness issue.

I appreciate you taking the time to discuss my point further as I KNOW my statement(s) will ruffle feathers.
While most may agree that I am posting for "shock jock" value, I am certain that some will understand, and appreciate my point(s).

I have not read a post on this forum yet that was as blunt as mine, and I have to believe that my opinion on tip up is not the singularity. If it were... then why make OTF knives. They have one real purpose, and I dare not go there...

Thank you sir for allowing me to state my opinion, and continuing discussion.
Ken
 
Makes no difference to me. Tip up or down, I adapt and they all work. Always right front pocket carry.
 
I don't really have a preference for tip up or tip down carry. I tend to carry one knife for a long time, so I just get used to how it carries.

Z Zombie411

I don't think you are being controversial, I think you are trying to be an agitator.
You're basically calling everyone here liars.

I bet 99% of the people here do not carry a knife primarily as a weapon. I know I don't.

Knives are essential to all humankind primarily as tools. Can a knife be a weapon? of course it can. And a very effective weapon of course too.
But a weapon is anything that is intended to be used as a weapon or is used as a weapon.
 
Zombie411 said:
Just stating what is obvious.
I carry CCW, and knives. It has NOTHING to do with confrontation or "bravado".
It's called being prepared for all too common situations (sadly in this modern world)

Call a cardboard cutter a tool, and pretend it is NOT worthy of being called a weapon. Does not matter to me.
Call a .45 loaded with "wad cutters" a tool? Fine.
It's still a weapon.

Politically correct? Heck sir... I was born in Yonkers, and WE call a spade a spade.

Tell me how useful an OTF is as a tool. Flipper? tool right? Next time I need an OTF, I'll call Cabellas

I'm simply addressing the elephant in the room.
The thread was asking "Why Tip Up". I gave MY opinion of why.

Ask IF I have EVER used a knife as a weapon... I'll answer. Ask IF I think a knife CAN be a weapon? YES!

Too bad my thoughts, and direct answer are worthy of an ignore from you sir on a forum FULL of knife users.
I won't hold back my thoughts nor my honest answers.
Just who I am.

To answer my own question... NO! I have NEVER used a knife as a weapon, although I do carry some as such.
Cardboard, and clamshells may have a different take on that tho.

Sorry if I was too blunt.
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A gentleman named Doug Ritter, who is fighting hard for our legal rights to carry knives, would strongly disagree with you.

If you feel that a knives sole purpose is as a weapon, you are only causing harm to our hobby. In my opinion, you have no place in this forum or our hobby.
 
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