Lifter and jbravo: thanks for the votes of confidence and lifter, good for you, keep up the good work.
About my clip placement. The original pocket clips, designed by Sal Glesser for his Clipit knives, were placed and are still placed at the pivot end of the handle. This affords a point down carry but, the draw of the knife from the pocket was intended to be with the fingers grasping the hole in the blade, drawing the knife out and, while still grasping the blade, using the mass of the handle, in a downward flick, to open the knife.
This is fine if there is a hole in the blade! In my original designs, I opted for a different opening system, either the thumb stud or my original thumb disc. This gave me the latitude to place the clip at either end.
I chose the back end of the knife for several reasons.
1) When drawing a knife with a back end clip, the hand naturally places the knife in position to be used instantly with the point forward and the cutting edge down.There is no further hand manipulation necessary. There is only one ,smooth hand motion. With the clip on the front end, the hand has to adjust the knife to the right position.
Granted, the Spyderco draw is fast and simple, but you wind up with your fingers grasping part of the blade where the hole is.
2. The clip on the back end is more comfortable to my hand and actually adds grip to the handle.
3. I like to leave the pivot screw exposed so that the end user can adjust the blade or remove it for cleaning. If the clip were to be placed back of the pivot, the knife would ride too high in the pocket.
4. if I were to place the clip over the pivot, I would not be able to use my milled pocket-single screw design clip, at least not efficiently.
5. I don't like cluttering up the bolsters, especially damascus or Mokume.
6. Most important , I just like the way rear mounted clips LOOK!
Best to you both, lifter, see ya in NY BOB
