Looking for a small fixed blade.

More praise for Bark River, I am currently carryin an ornage g10 micro canadien in a bybrown kydex sheath tucked under my belt. Its small, discreet and the orange handle seems to take away alot of the "freak out" factor that open carry sometimes causes. I carry this knife openly in my office and havne't had any comments whatsoever. Warren Thomas also makes some nice small knives in his titanium/carbide materials I switch a small WT hawkbill out with the micro.
 
The Fallkniven WM1 will do the job just fine and VG-10 is some good steel.

Actually any of the "neck knives" would probably do just what you want and give you a lanyard to wrap around a belt of belt loop too.

It's not a fixed blade,however, I carry a Fallkniven U2 in my watch packet with a lanyard so all I have to do is pull the lanyard and out it comes...and it blazing sharp and stays that way too.

FWIW,
Ciao
Ron Cassel
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Wow, cool, more suggestions. Man, I knew there were a lot of knife makers out there, but it is getting insane! There are TONS of guys out there.

O.k. Some more criteria to narrow the search a little. I've found most neck knives / small sheath knives are still larger then six inches. Let's see if we can find some smaller. Six inches will fit in the pocket, but not very comfortably. Mr. Ingram had several on his website that are currently in the running.

Second, There should be some feature that prevents the hand from sliding down on the blade. I'm not planning on using this knife for S.D. but I'm a little paranoid about using knives without some type of guard / choil . . . something. . . .

These have been great suggestions, guys.

Lunumbra
 
As was mentioned the SWAMP RAT line of blades are a great buy and hard to beat for durability and utility.

Bomb proof warranty as well.

Skam
 
Becker Necker. It's probably ~6.5 inches, has a guard, is very flat, and easily carried with the stock kydex sheath (which is rather nice too). Slap some handle scales on there, and it's about perfect.

Good luck
Desmond
 
The Becker BK11 might work for you or maybe you can find a CRKT Ryan Plan B--it's a very sturdy small fixed-blade.

Good luck,
Allen.
 
They have one smaller than the micro and if I'm not mistaken it's called the sliver.
 
Try the Benchmade Outbounder. The blade length is 3.75 inches. I have the blue-class model in 440C, but I believe it comes in 154CM and thunderforged damascus as well. A picture of the blue-class model is shown below:

bench_outbounder.jpg


Great little knife.

TheSurvivalist
 
SO! A little update for all of you who were kind enough to make suggestions.

I purchased a BRKT Mikro Sliver with a BRIGHT blue G-10 handle, and an A.G. Russel Woodswalker. I also dug out my CRKT Ryan Plan B, and I attacked the sheath of my CRKT Carson F4.

First, I've had the Mikro Sliver all of about an hour, (and I'm already considering a Mikro Canadian), it is superb. Truely "pocketable" at four inches, grind is perfect, fit and finish is beautiful. This could literally go on a key ring. Shaving sharp.

If you have any interest at all in this category of knife, you owe it to yourself to get a Woodswalker. For shear functionality at a great price, this blade would be very hard to beat. Very thin blade, with a good edge on it when it arrived. I touched it up with just a couple of strokes on some ceramic and it was shaving. I've used it for the last couple of days at work to trim a lot of burrs off of some plywood, and it stays sharp. The leather hip sheath is simplicty itself, and works great. The Kydex, I haven't worn yet (harder to access), but comes over the handle enough to make the fit snug and secure. To say that I'm impressed would be an understatement. I've spent much more money on knives that didn't work nearly this well.

O.k. my CRKT's. . . . . As anyone else had trouble keeping an edge on these things? They don't go completely dull, but keeping them in top form takes perseverance, in my experience. I do like the design of the Plan B a lot, it fits in large hands very nicely for such a small knife. I don't like the clip on the sheath, it causes the knife to ride VERY high, and when wearing it as a neck knife I've had the knife slip out of the sheath on several occasions. (Want to see someone start to move REALLY carefully . . .) But it is small enough to slip in the pocket, so I'll add it to the rotation for a while.

I attacked the sheath of my F4 with a saw and a file. I cut off everything but the two holes at the tip end of the sheath and filed it down smooth. Now I can put it my pocket, real nice, or wear it as a neck knife, with out that clunky sheath.

I read that other thread, and picked up some more leads, I'm never going to be able to retire at this rate . . . . .

Lunumbra
 
More praise for the Woodswalker. Got one about two weeks ago.

As stated, very thin blade, but sturdy enough. Sharp, great slicer, good steel, well-designed handle feel. A lot of knife for a little money. :thumbup:
 
I'd also like to recommend Gene Ingram's knives. He has several pocektable models. I own his Pocket, SLK, and Number 4 models. All are small enough to carry in a pocket.

His work is excellent, but still relatively inexpensive.

He can make any model in several different steels, a wide choice of handle materials, and a sheath with or without a belt loop.

http://geneingramknives.blademakers.com/

Bear
 
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