Looking for a very small fixed blade...

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I'm looking for a very small fixed blade knife. Something along these lines:

http://www.hideawayknife.com/

but not designed as a fighter.

Ideal would be something with about an inch and a half of handle, half or three quarters of an inch of blade, and a small, unobtrusive belt sheath. Something for opening boxes, cutting tape and stuff like that.

I'd **really** like something in a good quality steel that I could use a lot and not have to keep sharpening.

Is there anything out there like this? Would any of the custom guys like to think about doing some of these?
 
I'd take a hard look at spyderco stuff or take a look at the BM Benchmite.

That all I know of!
 
Al Mar had a little fixed blade knife of about those dimensions. A keychain knife I believe, but you might be able to get a sheath made for it. Probably VG10 steel, but don't quote me. They've been fairly recently discontinued but you might find one on ebay or still in stock somewhere.

Gordon
 
You might want to take a look at a Simonich Midtech Bitteroot. Great little keychain knife. It's in S30V as well, so it will hold up to anything you throw at it.
 
Reading your description I immediately thought of the Fred Perrin Street Scalpel. I haven't heard much about them on the forums but I do recall seeing one thread a while back that spoke fairly highly of it, and I have heard good things about his other blades. Definitely one to consider.
 
4" over all length is a good bit bigger than I need... and I haven't been able to find a link on the Al-mar knife. Does anybody know what it was called?
 
At first I was going to recommend you the Nemesis Hellion, but after reading that the 4" overall lenght was too big I remembered a thread on here that one of the guys made about tiny fixed blades. I did some searching and came up with this, you may want to contact that guy and see if he has any to sell. I hope you like one of those or it atleast fits your requirements :)
 
some great knives linked on this thread!

I wanted to be a bit more specific about the design parameters.

Purpose: ECD cutting. Cord, tape, boxes, notching wood. Not much cutting power required.

Size: Less than an inch of blade. **really** tiny, completely sheeple friendly, ideally it wouldn't even look like a knife. But it would cut like one.

Mount: should be on a belt clip or a pocket clip, lift-use-replace in a second, not even the time it takes to open a folder.

Overall size: really, ideally, less than three inches total.

The HideAwayKnife is really, really ideal, but a little aggressive for my EDC. If I'm going to have it visibly clipped to my belt, something with that kind of look isn't going to work...

Might end up with one anyway, but I want to see if there's anything else!
 
Check Bark River Hunters on (A.G.Russel and Knifeworks)
BarkRiver-Falwer-03.jpg

They have even smaller then this one - and A2 is toughest steel (but non stainless).
Thanks, Vassili.
 
Better picture:
BarkRiver-Hanter-02.jpg

Also check Helle - norvegian laminated, they have lot of small knives
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Thanks, Vassili.
 
OK, I got another one for you: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288889 It's a naked pocketknife from Gene Ingram, this is a larger version, he makes a smaller one than that. It comes in a leather slip sheath that is meant to be worn in the pocket, but Gene said that he can make a sheath that has a belt loop on it also. The smaller one fits right in your specs, and cost me $80.
 
How about something like this?
ansosheepsf.jpg

Jens Ansø "Small Sheepsfoot". Satin finished RWL 34
1,6" blade/4,5" overall.
Comes with excellent kydex sheath with multiposition belt loop. I usually carry mine in a pocket on a static cord.

Bo Hansen
 
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