To Kill A Clip-It

[Raqudu]

I have carried RFP for years, and experienced "the incident" on several occasions. Recently, I began wearing suspenders (tired of hiking my pants up) and found a side benefit. Switching from RFP to IWB of my now-beltless jeans, I discovered that the unused belt loops made a nice clip cover for my Para. Positioning the Para slightly behind the belt loop allows the curved clip end to fit neatly under the loop.

[Lostification]

In January, I was walking pretty fast and my para caught in the door jam and sent me spinning. I barely even caught myself. It didn't even break, in fact I was still able to use it. Not bad considering it sent a 180lb guy into almost a full 360 spin, lmao!

The para-military is a bad *** knife! Almost four years of hard use and it's still kickin!

I mailed it in to Spyderco and paid $5 for a new clip. Good to go.

[duff72]

I dont carry it regularly but my ats34 milli has a piece of surgical tubing stretched over the clip -dual purpose it keeps me from scratching stuff up and it is grippy enough to hold it tightly in my pocket. the only downside is that its a little slower to get in and out of the pocket

[gdwtvb]

I'm in the no-clip camp. I lost my first clipped knife years ago (first spyderco I owned), and have never trusted them since. First thing I do is remove the clip. The second thing is tie on a Lanyard. In my experience, the mlliseconds saved by a clip versus lanyard isn't worth the risk of losing a knife. I love my Sage II...after I drilled a lanyard hole. I also keep the knife in a leather slip sheath I made, to keep down the pocket lint and stuff. When I grab the lanyard the sheath stays in the pocket. It's a little slower to put back into my pocket but what's the hurry?

Grizz

[stonetone]

I was driving, proceeded to shift my body, unaware that my Sage I clip was clipped onto the seatbelt (it had somehow slid under the clip) and subsequently bent it.

I carry RFP as well, and did the same exact thing to my Para clip. I bent it back into shape, but went a bit overboard. It was a bit tight against the scale thereafter. But then it ended up on the orange Millie where, strangely, it seems just right.

Other than that, never really had an issue with catching a clip while moving around on foot. Scratching, sure, but not catching - kind of like Ladies Night at the corner bar.