Knife Lanyards?

[Ferrion]

Having not turned much up on the search (except a bevy of lovely knives with lanyard pins in )

Do many people use a knife lanyard?
What is the lanyards purpose?

Personally I carry my Frosts Mora on a belt sheath, was thinking about putting a long-ish lanyard on with a trigger clip at one end to attach the knife itself to my belt.

Probably don't need it but i have spare time, para cord and trigger clips!

 

[Seagull]

Having not turned much up on the search (except a bevy of lovely knives with lanyard pins in )

Do many people use a knife lanyard?
What is the lanyards purpose?

Yup, I would like to know, too.

Ceeg

 

[sapper1]

I use my lanyard as a sort of finger guard .If im using the knife in a way that entails pushing the blade point first I put the lanyard around my hand first ,that way if my hand slips along the handle the lanyard stops my fingers sliding along the blade and causing them to fall off.
Think about boring a hole in a piece of wood the amount of pressure applied aling the spine of the knife is immense and your fingers only need to move along the blade for a short distance and hey presto! nice clean and deep cut to the fingers.

 

[sapper1]

I should add that my lanyard is a loop made to the exact size of my hand.

 

[edispilff]

Sometimes a lanyard comes in handy for deep seated pouch sheaths: it makes it easier for the draw.. also, if there's any substantial amount of lanyard material to grab onto, it makes the knife a little more stable in the hand when holding it more toward to butt section (for extending the range of the knife).
...and, in an emergency situation, the lanyard can be unwound for a small amount of 'instant' cordage.

 

[scanker]

What edispliff says above and also on very small knives, a lanyard can extend the handle.

 

[redneck]

My lanyard is only a couple of inches long and is used just to draw my puukko out of a deep pocket sheath...don't need anything longer!

 

[spamel]

I went through a phase of them, don't use them that often now.

 

[Tor helge]

I`ve tried using a lanyard on a knife but it was a short lived experiment.
IMHO there is no use for it, and what is even worse is that the da*n lanyard gets in the way when using the knife.

Tor

 

[British Red]

I use a lanyard - with a locking loop. I use it when choking up on the knife blade to give a secure grip, when extending the handle for a two finger grip chopping action, locked around the hand for a boring action and many more uses. I even use a wrist lock to save re-sheathing the knife during game work - I can just let the knife "hang" for a moment if necessary. Very versatile and useful in my book. Not conselling others to use them but it works for me

Red

 

[michiel]

I don't use them very often, but when i do use them it is or the reasons Red stated above.

Best regards,

Michiel

 

[JohnC]

The lanyard on my knife goes around the firesteel end and helps to hold the knife in the sheath,

 

[dwardo]

I have tried them on a few knives and besides looking pretty i have never found a use for them

However i can see the advantage on a deep sheathed knife but thats about it... each to their own

 

[Toddy]

I use a lanyard sometimes, for just the kind of work that BR mentions. It keeps it 'at hand' but not 'in' my hand when I'm doing something, usually foraging fruit sprays like elders, rowans or mistletoe, pruning trees, taking willow or collecting leaves and roots from Flag Iris . Useful in field butchery too on occasion,
I know it kind of breaks the rule about in the hand or in the sheath but it's either that or in and out twenty times a minutes sometimes.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Templar]

I only use a lanyard when I'm working around water so I dont lose it...

My two cents...

Karl

 

[chris7273]

I use a lanyard - with a locking loop. I use it when choking up on the knife blade to give a secure grip, when extending the handle for a two finger grip chopping action, locked around the hand for a boring action and many more uses. I even use a wrist lock to save re-sheathing the knife during game work - I can just let the knife "hang" for a moment if necessary. Very versatile and useful in my book. Not conselling others to use them but it works for me

Red

Same use for me

 

[edispilff]

another option is (as may have been mentioned earlier) to make the lanyard loop just big enough to fit one or 2 fingers . similar to the way BritRed locks his loop around the wrist, a shorter lanyard makes it possible to lock in but by using only one or two fingers. This gives just enough lanyard to stay out of the way, and still provide some 'gripping' usefullness.

 

[Ferrion]

cheers for the answers guys, handy to know, mainly some ideas i'd simply not thought about!!