Well, since I reneged on the Buck Quickfire in my op,
the Lux arrived with such poor blade centering it's being sent in for service, and due to a back ordered product included in my order containing the Zero, it still hasn't shipped yet, and without digging through the Christmas decorations to find the Vertice I mentioned, I actually found a perfect little fallback option that I had right here all along, buried in the bottom of my knife box, NIB, out of sight out of mind, and since I don't carry small knives, I completely forgot about it.
You can officially pencil me in for a Kershaw Emerson cqc-2k
2.75" blade, 3.6" handle, it's going to be interesting...
*(if the Zero ships and arrives before 3/1 it may still be in play, but 6 days to go, it' looking more and more like that won't be an option).
Any excuse to buy new knives... Lol