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I started clipping my carry folders inside the waistband, with clip under my belt. Best results when clipped at an angle, so knife rides clip-to-rear. If clipped vertically, the knife tends to get pushed up when you raise your leg.

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bad4u....I too have been wearing my blades this way for years. Only way to go IMO. I can't stand digging for a blade in bottom of a pocket, Already have a pager and maybe a phone on belt, don't want no pouches. After scratched car doors, gouged steering wheels, snagged leather and cloth seats, seatbelts caught, pockets ripped, door frames and furniture trashed, clips broken and damaged and yes one knife loss...I evolved to this carry...ymmv but for me its the only way to go. Discreet, quick, always at same position. Belt protects and hides the clip.

Only change I make is for the Sifu. For this big puppy it goes off center left first belt loop, canted outboard..works fine..dang huge knife disappears. My local leo's that visit with me are dumbfounded when I show them. Some have a blade or two...a couple like their blades as good tools but when they visit me they know I love them.
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I have had some bad experiances with pocket clips, but I have never completely lost one (knock on wood!). I have caught them and bent them out so many times, that I look to see how easy a clip can be removed on a new knife before I buy it. I have also almost lost my current carry knife (a Kershaw Talon) several times by putting my field jacket or goretex parka on and catching the clip tip on the liner, sliding it out of my right front pocket. I am on a ship, and the most recent incident was when hurrying through a water tight door, I bumped hard into the frame with my right hip. I caught the clip on my Police Model so hard it exploded right off of the knife. The knife slid down in my pocket, the clip shot across the deck, and after about 5 minutes of careful searching, I gave up on the little screws. Being on a submarine tender, and me being an opticalman, I went up to the periscope shop (scopes are just full of tiny little screws, pins and set screws)and scrounged around til I found some tiny (about 3/56, I think) stainless screws and replaced the clip. I often see junior guys carrying knives clipped to the outside of their belts, and besides being inappropriate in uniform, I tell them that sooner or later, they are going to lose the knife, which, looking at the POS knives that some of them insist on buying, would not be the end of the world for them. I guess you just have to be a little more careful if you are going to use a pocket clip.
 
I have never lost a clipped knife. However, I have bent, broken, scratched, and torn things with them. IWB and sheaths are the best solutions. It depends on the knife and the situation as to which way I carry.

Paul
 
I never use the clip but I always leave them on my knives. I have no idea why. I think I have a problem...
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I guess I keep thinking that I will use the clip but I never do.

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I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
 
IWB works fine for me 2.

but the wave feature only works from the pocket....

have to decide based on the folder and the pants...

best thing - go for a fixed blade...
 
Pocket clips are handy, but not useful for all occasions. I got started in the sheath business by making a sheath for myself to hold a fast access rescue knife on my whitewater Personal Flotation Device that would be guaranteed to be there when I needed it. This snowballed into a business making sheaths for rescue vests, backpacks, climbing harnesses, etc. After an impromptu swim in Augsburg's Icecanal (scene of '72 Olympic WW Slalom), I noticed I'd lost my Spyderco Endura (clipped IWB) while being "maytagged" in the water. That's when I came up with the neck sheaths that a lot of you have been using. I still use pocket clips sometimes, but for vigorous outdoor activities where I need to know my knife will be there , I'll go with a sheath every time.

Mike Sastre
River City Sheaths
 
All you need do is get a piece of elastic about an inch wide and about the same or a bit more long (depending on the size knife you want to carry) stich this into a loop thats nice and snug on your folder, then stich the loop into your jeans or jacket etc. This keeps the knife in a good position and having used this type of carry for about two years now I find it works great. Try it, it works for me.
 
I lost a cold steel voyager at the Gateway Summer Nationals. It must have popped off my waistband when boarding the parking shuttle. Also almost lost it once before that. Poor design clip????

However my BM940 never has seemed to get loose, or come close to being lost, even when I have forgotten to remove it from my jeans and changed clothes...the knife is right where I left it waiting for me.

BTW...if anyone found my Voyager I'd gladly take it back.
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Has my initials scribed in handle. Lotta damned good that did. LOL

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Wow! now I don't feel nearly so alone in my bad experiences with pocketclips! It's taken me awhile to learn (sometimes I'm a little slow that way) But, after losing a buck Crosslock, a Buck Lightning, a Spydie Rescue,Mariner,and Endura, as well as a Benchmade AFCK, and an AFO (TWO DAYS AFTER I BOUGHT IT!!) I finally gave up on them. As much as I love the concept, I just don't think they're suittable for any kind of real work enviroment, except for MAYBE an office or a shop. an Idea that has occurred to me is to try an IWB mag holder, if anyone else has tried this, please let me know your results!
 
I have a question for the IWB group...

Has anyone who carries IWB ever had a corrosion problem? I would imagine that carrying a knife against your body on a hot day would expose the knife to sweat. I sometimes carry my TNT IWB (that's enough acronyms!
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) but the titanium/talonite will not have problem. What about steel?

-Steven
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Runs With Scissors:
Wow! now I don't feel nearly so alone in my bad experiences with pocketclips! It's taken me awhile to learn (sometimes I'm a little slow that way) But, after losing a buck Crosslock, a Buck Lightning, a Spydie Rescue,Mariner,and Endura, as well as a Benchmade AFCK, and an AFO (TWO DAYS AFTER I BOUGHT IT!!) I finally gave up on them.</font>
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Now that is a shallow learning curve! I only had to lose two knives before I decided on my "evil scheme" theory.



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San Francisco, CA
 
swong13 - no problems so far, but I'll let you know once the hot Florida summer kicks in. Thats why they make Tuf-Cloth and Talonite, though... Just "discovered" IWB carry recently; it's comfortable, unobtrusive, doesn't raise eyebrows, but is more difficult to access.

-IPR
 
I've carried a Spyderco Endura and a Cold Steel Voyager, both w/plastic clips, inside the waistband for years with no corrosion problems. I always swim with one IWB as well.
 
So I'm at work reading this thread on Sunday, thinking to myself, "What the hell are these guys doing to jar their knives loose???" I have been carrying many many knives with clips since I was a kid, and I have never lost one as a result of the clip not doing its job. So guess what happens??? I walk out the front door at work to my car, and my Spyderco Standard seems to "hop" out of its clipped position in my pocket to the ground. Is this some kind of bladeforums jinx you guys have stuck me with??
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I've never lost a knife clipped to my pocket..am I just gifted
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? I do hear tinking noises sometimes when I brush up against something, ahm, or someone
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. But I've still never scratched a clip.

I've tried IWB, but then I didn't give it much of a chance because I tried my AFCK first and stopped there..ouch! Too big, not good sitting down.
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You could put nacho cheese sauce on it...
 
I can't say that I hate clips, but I've had my share of problems. I used to be able to wear shorts to work and the material just isn't thick enough to hold the clip securely, espcially on molded clips. I lost my first FRN Dragonfly that way. At least it was relatively cheap to replace. I'm on my 3rd Mini-Dyad (Micarta) because it just seems to disappear when clipped. I don't like the FRN version but now I just drop it in my pocket (with the clip still in place). I seem to hook my Mini-AFCK and AFCK more often than others when I carry them clipped to the right front pocket. I've found them clipped to my jackets, pack straps, seat belts, etc. I still carry them there though; it's just convenient. I carry my Military IWB behind the right kidney with the clip under the belt and never have a problem with that arrangement.

I carry so much crap on me that I've come to constantly patting myself down to make sure that everything is still in place. I feel like Mel Gibson's character in Mad Max Beyuond Thunderdome when I unload all my gear from my pockets and belt when I get home or change my pants.

gm
 
The only clipped knife I've lost was a Spyderco Walker lightweight. I was wearing shorts, too, and they weren't thick enough for the molded clip.
Clips suck when they're on the pivot end
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I've never lost a knife due to the clip, though I have dropped a few when taking a shirt off and forgetting that there's a knife clipped to my WB.

Like some others, I don't quite understand the problem. I went from pocket to IWB very early on when clips appeared. That stopped the scratching, hooking, and other things that seem to go wrong with clips. I always have a belt, so that covers the clip, and for that someone who asked about corrosion associated with IWB carry I have to ask don't you wear underwear?
 
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