blarby,
When all else fails. Go to AG Russell web site. He now makes, or has made, a batch of pocket knives in "CHINA", blasphemous word, that work. I swore up and down for years I would never buy a cheap Chinese knife. My wife changed my opinion. Fit and finish on AG Russell is amazing. I have a new barlow lockback from him is everything I want in a folder. There is a lanyard hole through which I have run a latigo strip. Knife goes under belt hangs in pocket without touching pocket bottom. Lanyard strip stays out side of belt threaded through the tip of a white tail antler. Pull on antler tip and knife comes cleanly out of pocket and under belt. I have done everything I can think of to mess up the blade short of cutting wire, blade is still in good shape. I have CRKT, Buck, Spyderco, Kershaw, Old Schrade, Case, Cold steel, and Gerber. None works better for me than the Chinese AG Russell. These folders go from a fairly massive double blade sowbelly to a clod buster to my favorite a lockback barlow. For under a hundred you can get two sent to you.
blindhari