Yet another Pocket Hobbit clip question

[Jared Karr]

If anyone out there is very pleased or very disappointed after having a clip put on their pocket hobbit, please detail the reasons why.

I'd really like a pocket hobbit, but don't think the sheath is practical. I live in a major metropolitan area and need something low profile. So I would like to put a pocket clip on my pocket hobbit when I get one.

Given the reverse grip nature of this blade, and the nature of how it is deployed with a flick the wrist, would having a clip put on be a real degradation of the knife? I know deploying from a back or front pocket is nowhere near as smoothe or as fast as the sheath, but you have to let your environment dictate your carry style, and a sheath is too much of an eyecatcher around here. Especially in close quarters such as on the train or on busses.

This is without a doubt-IMHO-the best fighting folder out there and I really want one, but need to know if I'm going to screw it up by putting a clip on.

Anyway, please help me--and hopefully some others--by detailing your good and bad stories about pocket hobbits with clips.

Thanks guys!

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Jared Karr

 

[Willie Boy]

I have a Pocket Hobbit without a clip. I have not considered the clip option. I have considered having an inside the pants sheath made for your PH. I read somewhere that Mike Sastre River City Sheathes might do this work.

Hope this helps.

 

[Fred]

I had a clip put on my PH. I thought that the break away sheath was great, but didn't use it because I thought that I'd get strange looks from non-knife people. The clip lets me carry the knife comfortably in a more politically correct manner. Deployment isn't as rapid as with the sheathm but it's fast enough ... I don't use the knife in a reverse grip anyway.

-Fred

 

[Jared Karr]

Thanks Fred.

Hey, you're in Bryn Mawr. Well, if I saw you riding the R1, or is it the R5, I wouldn't look at you funny if you had a hobbit on your waist. I would simply stare in admiration.

Why don't you like the reverse grip? I don't want to enter into a tangent about tactics, but the knife was designed for this grip. Is it because deployment from a pocket is easier with a normal grip?

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Jared Karr