Para 3 pocket clip needs CQI

[thewoodpecker]

^^^ +1 ^^^

[SpeedHoles]

I'd agree, placement for the screw holes is not ideal.
It's like they just anticipated that lanyard placement would trump clip location for most users. But I don't use a lanyard on this knife.

[Jazz]

Every knife should have a lanyard hole. They could come in very handy at times. This just needs replacement.

[SpeedHoles]

Every knife should have a lanyard hole. They could come in very handy at times. This just needs replacement.

While I can agree with that, I don't personally think that the design placement of the lanyard hole should come first over where the clip will go, making it's location a second thought...
I bet this could have been solved with a clip like on the Native LW, etc, with the hole in the middle but many traditional Paramilitary users probably would have thrown a fit over clip change. :rolleyes:

As you said, it could come in handy at times. Not dozens of times every day like a clip.

[Surfingringo]

I’ve carried mine for a couple of months now and the clip placement doesn’t bother me. That said, I would have no objections to a change. I don’t like “deep carry” but I’d like the knife just as much (or more) if the clip placement was more like that of the pm2. Lots of folks are bothered by the clip placement and lots of folks are not. I have not, however. heard anyone who is fine with it the way it is (like myself) object to a cqi change to make it ride lower. Seems like a change would make half the folks happy and wouldn’t really bother the other half.

[Jazz]

Smaller hole would help too. Doesn't need to be a radical change at all.

[ZrowsN1s]

I bet this could have been solved with a clip like on the Native LW, etc, with the hole in the middle......

I was thinking this as well.

[haayema]

Para3 with wire clip!

[Jazz]

I'm wondering, could someone please post a picture of a Military and Para 3 side by side clipped in a pocket?

[tap78]

At first I did not like Para 3 but after upgrading to Casey Lynch deep pocket clip I'm amazed.... Spyderco Should definately make factory deep pocket clips...

[abbazaba]

If only...

Perfect.

Yes!

[The Deacon]

Or, you could set it up for tip down carry. Safer, and given the placement of the holes, there'd be much less exposure that way.

[Wrathhog]

Or, you could set it up for tip down carry. Safer, and given the placement of the holes, there'd be much less exposure that way.

Don't know why people say this. It's not at all safer.

[The Deacon]

Or, you could set it up for tip down carry. Safer, and given the placement of the holes, there'd be much less exposure that way.

Don't know why people say this. It's not at all safer.

Can't speak for "people" in general, but gravity, combined with the piss poor blade retention of Walker, Reeve Integral, and compression locks is why I say it. Tip down can't swing open, tip up can.

[mad german]

At first I did not like Para 3 but after upgrading to Casey Lynch deep pocket clip I'm amazed.... Spyderco Should definately make factory deep pocket clips...

Sal said they don't offer a factory deep carry clip because he knows there are many small businesses that have popped up that make them, and he didn't want to interfere with their entrepreneurship. I say good for you Sal & Spyderco.

[mad german]

Or, you could set it up for tip down carry. Safer, and given the placement of the holes, there'd be much less exposure that way.

Don't know why people say this. It's not at all safer.

Can't speak for "people" in general, but gravity, combined with the piss poor blade retention of Walker, Reeve Integral, and compression locks is why I say it. Tip down can't swing open, tip up can.

With the detents that are on all of my PM2s and Para 3s, you will NEVER have them open in your pocket if carried tip up.

[anycal]

Or, you could set it up for tip down carry. Safer, and given the placement of the holes, there'd be much less exposure that way.

Don't know why people say this. It's not at all safer.

Can't speak for "people" in general, but gravity, combined with the piss poor blade retention of Walker, Reeve Integral, and compression locks is why I say it. Tip down can't swing open, tip up can.

Gravity alone can't open a knife, unless it has no detent at all, or you're on Jupiter. If a knife can open easily, it will do so tip up or tip down. All it takes is change in inertia and weak detent.

Of my knives, I have 6 in the locks you mentioned, and none of them have piss poor blade retention. Regardless of lock type, all my knives will open if I flick them hard enough, with or against gravity.

[Wrathhog]

Or, you could set it up for tip down carry. Safer, and given the placement of the holes, there'd be much less exposure that way.

Don't know why people say this. It's not at all safer.

Can't speak for "people" in general, but gravity, combined with the piss poor blade retention of Walker, Reeve Integral, and compression locks is why I say it. Tip down can't swing open, tip up can.

Carrying iwb, tip down is a lot more dangerous than tip up. I carry iwb in running shorts and would never even consider tip down carry. If a knife opens I'm probably cut one way or another but I'd much prefer stitches in my hand vs bleeding out from a main artery in my upper thigh. Carrying tip up in front pocket, the blade is wedged against the side of the pocket making accidental opening almost impossible. I don't see tip down being even remotely safer in any situation.

[Johnnie1801]

I'm wondering, could someone please post a picture of a Military and Para 3 side by side clipped in a pocket?

I already switched the clip on my Para 3 but I'll try to switch it back in the next couple of days and post a pic for you

[Jazz]

I already switched the clip on my Para 3 but I'll try to switch it back in the next couple of days and post a pic for you

That's a lot of trouble. You don't have to, but I appreciate the offer.