Matchstick
Barehead Slimline Trapper is a favorite of mine and has been forever.
I prefer yellow handles and chrome vanadium blades.
Now this matchstick trick goes back before I was born, and works for any knife.
I was born in the mid 50's, and not all the Veterans from previous conflicts were whole, nor did they have a knife pattern called the One Arm Jack.
Ladies used this matchstick trick, even though the Switchblade knife was originally designed with ladies in mind - not all ladies had a switchblade.
I even use this tip/trick on Case Peanuts , Case small stockman and SAK Classic SD....
Two ways, one may work better for you, depending on you, the knife and all.
1. Matchstick is fitted so the tang does not come all the way down, leaving some of the tip up from handles.
2. Where blade fits into handle, apply and fit just back of blade tip.
Matchstick is a soft wood, it will not dull an edge.
Kitchen matches, or smaller match sticks, allow one to tweak to fit inside the handle and /or liners.
These stay in place quite well and still are easy to remove.
Barehead Slimline Trapper-
Simply retrieve knife from whatever pocket, and just catch the tip on jeans, pants seams, pockets.
Everyone has a preferred method of carry and dress.
Just see what works for you, and make it one fluid move.
I catch on front pockets, and rear pockets, right or left don't matter to me personally, I have been doing this too long.
Catch on a shoe, boot, cardboad box...
This is like a Gov't model of 1911, and left stock, the gun is so easy to run , if not mucked up with all the goopy curb feelers and fuzzy dice folks stick on 1911 clones guns today.
When I stay in practice, I can get one open faster than some with assisted opening.
Buck 110 users , have used this trick along with another, and these Lockback users, Buck 110, or Case Mako Shark, or Shrade equiv, were back when and still can get these out faster than some with newer designs.
Just in a area, with no locking knives allowed , and having to be less than 3" closed...
Case Peanut , Buck Lancer, Boker Pen knives and others, can be opened rather quickly and still be legal under workplace restrictions.
*curmudgeon*
I grew with mentors that shared learning correct basic fundamentals, and not learning with a crutch.
So I still use a pocket knife, I do not even own a locking knife.
Anything I learned from correct basics , transitions to newer offerings.
Tang: It will not hurt that knife to have a matchstick under the tang.
That tang was designed to be tweaked as the knife was used, and sharpened over years and years, which often means the tip does stick up, depending on how person sharpens.
Remove a smidgen from the tang, and the tip is below handles.
Many do not know this, and many current knife mfgs do not mfg knives as they once did, one reason is the collectors, another is folks are not using knives even if they don't really collect, another is the knife mfg do not know the correct basics themselves , and of course, we have the tactical designs.
Look real close at the old patterns, history is a great teacher, and the old patterns made as they were, were made that way for a reason.
I learned to use a pocket knife, and learned a lot more about "opening" and "closing" one, than any mfg can ever design into knife.
If a lock breaks, one has a blade with zero tension it just flip flops back and forth...