Why doesn't Spyderco offer tip up carry on the Military?

bdmicarta said:
How do you get a clip mounted tip down on a Manix 2? They don't do this because it might get in the way of the BB lock. Actually the way that I operate the lock there might be room on the handle for a clip to mount up there but I'm not equipped to drill and tap something like that.
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I know that you couldn't be expected to infer what I had done, so here is what I did.

I have tried other knives as tip down, and couldn't take to it that easily, if at all.
Due to my love of the manix 2 in hand, I wanted to see if it would be more easily overlooked on this platform, and I tried it the following two ways.
- Spare scales from a disassembled LW manix 2 that I drilled with a small coarse threaded screw and reassembled with a mock up blade of stock thickness to meet the size (thickness) in hand.
- To be sure that it was accurate enough, I also went about it in a more primitive fashion to see if it was a significant difference. This time I took some double sided tape and taped the clip centered over the pivot. No appreciable difference between the two forms felt.

I couldn't take to manix in hand when mocked up as such. This may be partially due to my love of the stock hand feel, and anything altering that might be seen to have an amplified affect?

Though I have tried swapping the clip location on others that I also liked, large and small alike (Spyderco and BM) and the results were the same.
 
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TX180SX said:
115Italian 115Italian I like what you've done there. Makes it look like it came that way. :thumbsup:

Did you use inserts?
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No i didnt. I know I should've. I marked for four holes. I drilled the holes to where the screws were able to thread themselves into the g10. They tightened down pretty good. I put gorilla glue on the threads before installing them.
 
It seems that alot of people would like to have it tip up and that it has hindered many people from buying the Millie. Spyderco has reconfigured many knives to suit the requests of many customers, I'm not sure why this has been such a bone of contention. I opened one up recently and came to the conclusion that it would have been a simple fix so I am going to assume that they have a reason for it and just decided not to divulge it to the public. I have been carrying a Manix 2 XL instead and I have decided that I prefer it to the Millie. I find the blade to have a better presence than the Millie and a more appropriate shape for a blade that long. I always found the length to width ratio a little off putting to me.
 
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