2.5" kershaw variety?

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Why are there so few Kershaws in the 2.5" blade range? I'd really like a manual Kershaw with a <2.5" blade in 14c28n, but the only option would be gutting a Baby Boa. The Skyline needs a baby brother!

Is this lack of love for 2.5" blades a conscious act of defiance against jurisdictions that have 2.5" blade restrictions or something?
 
the scallion, chive, od-2, centefante, and mini mojo are all sub 2.5" i believe, but like the baby boa they are assisted.
 
Half-ton? very cheap too. Or like you mentioned, you can always take out the spring from the speedsafe ones mentioned..
 
And how many of those have 14c28n steel or better? I think all of those are 4xx series stainless or 8Cr13MoV except for the Baby Boa.

My point is that there is little variety in short blades with the Sandvik (or better) steels among Kershaw's lineup.
 
I have 2 mini mojo's and 1 is 14c28n and the other is 13. the od-1 is also 14c28n, the others are 440. od-2 is 8cr13mov
 
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I just picked up a Chive at a local gun and knife show. It's a great little folder, though I still prefer my Leek.
 
The mini Mojo is out of production, the OD-1 is a great knife, but is almost a 3" blade.

I wasn't clear enough in my first post. I want to see the smaller blade lengths in 14C28N, Elmax, D2, etc. I have plenty of knives in 8Cr13MoV and 420/440 series steels.

A 14C28N upgrade for the Chive and Scallion would be awesome, but what I really want is a 2.5" mini Skyline. Some high end small knives in Elmax and D2 would be nice as well.

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Regrinding, and redrilling the scales and moving pillars/backspacers, so that the handle can be cut down to fit the new length? Some liner locks cant even be shortened much, or you'll detach the lock bar from the rest of the liner.

I'd rather have the knives I'm talking about be available commercially, so that if a replacement is needed, it can be bought.

Basically, your way of mentioning regrinding is an off-topic comment in this thread, anyway.
 
I don't know what you are talking about, but a regrind only removes material from the blade. I don't remember where i found it, but some guy reground a waved emerson to 2.5 inches so it was legal everywhere in the US. why do you need to cut down the handle? its just a stubby version of the original blade in the original handle.

if you are not interested, then that is OK, but it seems that you mentioned wanting your favorite knives smaller, and so this fit the bill.
 
Because having a handle out of proportion with the blade removes a lot of the charm of a design like the Skyline. In any case, I might want the design to be shallower, edge to spine, than the original as well, to keep the nice proportions.

What I am saying is that a knife that is designed to look the way it does is nice. And if its available stock the way I want it, I'll be more likely to use it as an EDC, since I can replace it if it breaks, or if it is lost.
 
If you look around you can still find the NRG 1740 in 13C with a blade length of 2 13/16". If you look really hard you can find
the 1740BLK in 14C. Both are flippers and are now disco'ed FWIW.
 
I agree with the OP. I really want a knife in the 2.5-2.75in range, but there are just so few options out there, especially with decent steel. The Buck Vantage Small Avid and Pro are the only ones I can really think of offhand, and they're all much thicker than I like.

I would LOVE to see something like the Zing, Skyline, or Chill in a smaller size, and proportional handle.
 
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