your stories of seeing knives in sombodys pocket

I hardly ever see anyone carrying a quality knife around my town. But the question got me thinking of an interesting situation. I work for a jail. Hollywood decided to use my jail to film part of a movie featuring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. I forget the name, it's not in theaters yet. However, I was posted at a gate, checking all the film crew and actors for contraband ie.. Knives, cigarettes and so forth, before they entered the perimeter. Its amazing how many people it takes to shoot 30 seconds of a movie. Turns out most of them carry knives. Not the actors of course, but the grips and what not. And they were all crap. Not one decent knife. All Chinese $5 knives, or exactos. I found that interesting.
 
MattyLav said:
Thats pretty cool, being on a movie set. I love movies :)
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Wasn't a movie set, it was my jail. We have 2 buildings, an old jail built in 1886 and a modern jail built in 2007. They used both to demonstrate that Brolin's character had been locked up for a long time, or so I was told.
 
Haha I always feel awkward because I am contanstanly looking at people waist/pocket area trying to figure out what knife they are carrying. I talked to a couple of guys at the community college i go to about what knife they were carrying and actually found a couple bone-fide knife guys with decent collections. the only time I made someone nervous when I asked about their knife was at a grocery store. I noticed that the cashier had a knife with one of the wide Zt/kershaw clips (like the one on the skyline) so I asked him if it was a kershaw or ZT and he quickly looked around then quickly nodded and whispered "yes" then handed me my receipt and turned to the next customer. I guess he was scared that someone was gonna find out or maybe the store didnt allow employees to carry knives
 
I don't think Ive ever met someone who was carrying anything more glamourous than a gerber paraframe.
maybe someday I will meet someone with exquisite tastes in blades like me...........
John
PS a guy I work with knows I like knives and he showed me one he just got from ebay. it was this supamallninja assist. He kept going on and on about how it "only costed 6 dollars". I told him how cool it was and thought, "well, its a start".
 
One time I went to Jimmy John's for lunch, had my Kershaw Leek in my pocket. I looked over and saw a cop with the same pocketclip sticking out. I commented on his knife, saying he had a good one, he returned the compliment.
 
No real stories to tell... really just sightings... A few of my co-workers carry knives and multi-tools. Got a couple of SOGs (Aegis and Powerlock), a Kershaw (SelectFire), an old wood-handled Camillus serpentine, a German Eye Brand Sodbuster, and a few SAKs (Tinker, Classic, and Explorer, though not as sure about that last one). A couple also carry box cutters. Among others at the same company that I see somewhat regularly, one guy carries a Spyderco (Delica), one a Leatherman (Wave), and one a SAK (a 4-layer one of some sort).

I've seen a few others, but none that I recognized. For random encounters, every now and then, I'll see a Benchmade or Spyderco clip. Usually don't get too good of a look to be able to identify the knife. Then there are just the various other assorted clips from what I suspect are the cheap department store knives.
 
Everybody in my high school carries a knife or a multi tool, guess that's a perk of living in the south :)
In school I've seen more gerbers than I care to count. A few Kershaw Leeks, a Benchmade mini grip, and my buddy has a Tenacious I gave him.
At the range I've seen a Hinderer, a Sebbie at a fun store, a few ZTs, and A bunch of Kershaws.
 
I ask all the time and people have generally been receptive and good-natured with me about it. I had one sort of disappointing experience (second encounter below) but other than that, I find it a great conversation starter. A lot of the time it turns to be some weird box cutter or cheapy no-name knife but it's still fun asking and sharing.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a Spyderco clip gleaming from a fella's pocket a couple weeks back on a jobsite. I asked about it and was again surprised when he handed over a stainless Endura 4 with SpyderEdge! Not exactly a common pocket knife in general. I handed him my Tenacious and kinda wished I had a fancier model on me (but I usually leave the more expensive and exotic stuff safely at home). I could tell he wasn't a "knife guy" per se, but he grinned and thanked me when I told him how cool it was and how rare it is to see a higher-end knife (relatively speaking, of course) on a construction job.

My wife's coworker had a get-together last summer and invited us over. Most everyone was younger than us and not really my sort of crowd; even so, I tried to get into their conversations and find something to talk about. After some time, I caught a flash of orange from one guy's pocket as he walked past and realized it was a paracord lanyard dangling from a knife. I recognized the clip instantly: it was a Kershaw Leek and I excitedly pointed it out as he walked back by. I said, "Hey, you've got a Kershaw Leek; nice." He stared at me blankly for a moment (I imagine he didn't know the model name) and then somewhat snobbily replied, "Oh. Yeah." I figured I just heard him wrong and asked if I could see it, hoping to get a conversation going. He handed it over and I passed my orange Para-Military 2 to him to examine in return. He just sorta held it and waited while I checked out the Leek for a moment. I handed it back and said something to the effect of, "Cool lanyard! It must be an 'orange' kinda day." He forced a smile and said "Yup", returned the PM2 and turned back to the rest of his friends.

There were a handful of his ilk there, it turned out; snobby elitist type college kids that weren't interested in anything outside their circle of friends. Too bad. Luckily there were also some friendly folks there, but why couldn't one of them be carrying a nice knife with a cool-looking lanyard?

Oh well. I always have you folks. ;)
 
I saw a pocket clip once, but the pocket clip read

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I didn't bother starting that conversation. Well, that, and we were in the middle of a meeting.
 
I used to have a couple people ask me what inhad when I had my smf cc. One guy was behind the knife counter at cabelas, he drooled over the thing for like 20 minuites white I checked out what they had there. The other was some dude that was just driving through town and saw me with it at work he had an sng with him. He wanted to trade but his was pretty worn lol. I miss my smf!!!!

As far as seeing other people I see them alot, but don't ever confront people about it. If we strike conversation in some other manner I would bring it up but I'm not going to walk up to a dude and he like hey I was checking your pockets out what's that lol. One time I did see a dude with a cold steel esparada (sp?) I couldn't help but laugh!
 
Ever time I see a clip in a pocket it's some S&W knife. The one time I noticed a girl working at a gas station with a clip and asked her about it, it wasn't even a knife. It was some sort of box cutter. Not many people seem to generally think they have need for a very good knife. I found a S&W folder the other day and it was poorly made, the ones buying them would be dollars ahead to buy something decent that would last them a lot longer.
 
I've never actually had a conversation with someone about their knife, but I've only seen a handful of people with knife clips attached too them. Plus they would probably have a POS knife anyways.
 
I usually just find on the job whatever Wally World sells. Some of the oil companies we work for don't allow pocket knives, while others might have a limit on the length of the blade. The companies that don't allow knives have the employees use "alternative cutting devices" like snips or break away blade box cutters. So, on those jobs, whatever I carry just stays in the bag.
I gave myself a Large Sebenza for my birthday last year. I carried it on board last hitch. I am carrying a 0550 this hitch. The self proclaimed knife expert ( among other things - 30 years old with 150 years of life experience - not to mention was some kind of black ops commando/medic/sniper) never saw or heard of Chris Reeve, ZT, or Hinderer.
 
I take my little one to Gymboree ( developement/play classes) and even though Mom's by far out number the Dad's in attendance, I often see pocket clips to some nice knives.
 
I was in an elevator with a guy and who I could only assume was his girlfriend. I could plainly see he had a knife in his pocket. I asked him what kind of knife he had in his pocket. He looked at me strangely, then looked at his girlfriend, then looked back at me and said, "The kind that tells you to mind your own fu**ing business."

I don't ask people anymore.
 
I do not usually look for knives or notice things clipped to people's pockets, but on one occasion, while drunk and riding on a bus, noticed the person across from me had what appeared to be a Spyderco clipped to his pocket. I said, "Yo! Nice spyderco! What model is it?" He looked at me a confused glare, and thought there was a spider somewhere on the bus. I explained, "the folding knife. Looks like spyderco brand." He then adamantly corrected my identification, claiming that the knife was a "Gerber" and that he supports "local products" in a typical Portland,OR-hipster tone.

I wanted to laugh and roll through the aisles of the bus, but out of politeness, did not inform him that 99% of Gerber knives are not manufactured in the U.S., and that the BM 710 in my pocket at the time was more "local" [Oregon City, OR] than the Walmart folder that he so rudely defended.
 
A lot of EMTs here carry Benchmades or Kershaw Blurs. The Firefighters seem to love Blurs or Spyderco Enduras. The police are fond of Spydercos, ZTs, and Emersons. Most of the civilians, however, carry whatever was on sale at WalMart. I see maybe one pocket clip out of every ten civilians here, so about 10 visible pocket clips daily. I've only seen a "quality" knife about eight or nine times on any of them.
 
Didn't technically see the in someone's pocket but a friend and I found a Benchmade Infidel by the river. He saw it first though, so he has it.
 
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