Blade length vs handle length

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I've been thinking about this for awhile now, so I figured some of you folks might have the answer. Which knife or brand of folder typically packs the most blade length into a handle overall.
 
Cold Steel. Check out their XL Counter Point and Rajah 2. Both have 6 inch blades in a very comfortable handle. Then there is the XL Espada with a 7 1/2 inch blade for those wanting a bigger folding knife.
 
Man with no name said:
Cold Steel. Check out their XL Counter Point and Rajah 2. Both have 6 inch blades in a very comfortable handle. Then there is the XL Espada with a 7 1/2 inch blade for those wanting a bigger folding knife.
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I'll have to visit a knife shop and check them out. Those are some big blades, Thanks,
 
Man with no name said:
Cold Steel. Check out their XL Counter Point and Rajah 2. Both have 6 inch blades in a very comfortable handle. Then there is the XL Espada with a 7 1/2 inch blade for those wanting a bigger folding knife.
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I'm 99% sure he meant who has the best blade to handle ratio, not who makes the biggest mall ninja pocket swords. Cold steel usually has 1.5-2 inches additional handle length to blade.

CRK's is pretty good across the entire lineup, being roughly 1" longer handle to blade, but some of the best I've come across are the Spyderco Pattada (3.9" blade in 4.77" handle), WE 618 (3.9" blade in a 4.7" handle), and CRK Mnandi (2.75" blade in 3.625" handle). Shirogorov's pack a lot of blade into their handles throughout most of their lineup. Most other manufacturers vary all over the place.
 
Yes your right I meant blade to handle ratio. Like you mentioned most are all over the place. I'd like to get the most blade length I can packed into the shortest handle length. One with no choil...maybe a small sharpening choil and a framelock with the cutout on the inside.
Is this asking a lot? :D I think CRK cuts their framelocks on the inside on some anyways and if they have the most blade length versus handle length it sounds/looks like a winner....maybe. :rolleyes:
 
CRK Ti-lock is 3.25" blade/4" handle, the best ratio I have seen in a folding knife...and no framelock cutout to worry about ;). Plus it's an awesome knife, I love mine :D
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That table on Spydercos is really well done. It seems that anything above 75% (blade to handle length) is pretty good if that is important to you. So a 4" closed length knife with a 3" blade would be considered pretty good. But I don't choose knives based on such things even though I notice and find really short blades (like 2") harder to use (for my uses), but your hand is pretty much the same size to make the package functional. But I you need to follow any state or local legalities on knives and I would rather have a tiny knife than none at all.
 
Oh, definitely kershaw leek too. May be up there. I think al mar ranks high for this category, but i have not personally owned one.
 
Which knife or brand of folder typically packs the most blade length into a handle overall
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The one with the least meat around the pivot, and pivot placed closest to the front of the handle.
 
A Benchmade Mini Griptilian is another honorable mention. For it's size it's pretty great.
 
Without counting folders like the LFK that have blades longer than the handle, the SOG Spec Elite 1 and Pentagon Elite 1 have some of the best blade to handle ratios I've encountered. 4" blade in a 4.75" handle for a 0.84 blade to handle ratio.
 
Although I'm not a fan of choils, someone posted or wrote awhile ago a different way of looking at it. They suggested that for some models, the choil is more of a way to make the handle fold up for an overall smaller package.

In this sense, some smaller knives that are really meant to use the choil in their normal grip, are smaller because of this design. I don't own one (as mentioned I am not a fan of choils), but it seems like the Spyderco Native and Efficient might be good examples of this.
 
The Microtech Socom Elite seems to pack alot into the handle.

Sometimes when I look at my small Sebbie 21 it looks like the blade is bigger than the handle. The blade to handle rationis very good.

Are you talking blade length vs handle length or cutting edge vs handle length?
 
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