midsized 560s? (ZT, please make them!!!)

Wilco

Wilco

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I have a 560, which is flawlessly made, perfect lockup and the flipping action is like butter - I love it. Unfortunately I will probably end up selling it as it is too big to carry daily with the way I dress for work.

Has anyone heard any plans for a smaller, midsize Hinderer/ZT? If ZT is reading this, please think about it, it would be a big seller!!!!

I would easily carry a "smaller" 560/561 instead of my customs, it is that nice of a knife.
 
As Stick said the 550 and the Cryo large and small versions are the only thing out there right meow. All Hinderer designed.
 
Doh, I should have clarified my thoughts. A midsize Flipper in the look of the 560....
 
I'd be in for a 560 equivalent with blade length every 1/2" from 2.5" up to 6" :D (assuming I can successfully rob a bank)
 
ZT - (Zero Tolerance) makers of TACTICAL knives, designed by some of the best tactical folder designers and you want them to make a mini version for work "dress"? :D

Maybe we could get a mini 300 with gold trim.

Just messing with ya, if they made a mini 560 I'd buy it. :)
 
Anything can be tactical. Taking Kali and Escrima for years, give me a small lockback or even a bic pen and I'll turn it tactical ;)

But seriously, a smaller, but still serious knife would be absolutely awesome. I think more than the blade length, it is the profile of the blade and handle - if they could shrink them down a bit.... And if it could match the pink summer dresses I wear....hahahahaha!
 
I'd buy at least two of them if they made the 0560 smaller. I'm thinking even a little smaller than the 0550. Something in the 3.25" blade length with the same proportions and looks. I'd have to fight to keep the drool away.
 
I think the 0600 will match your pink summer dress quite nicely :D, gorgous knife, but have you seen the specs on that knife?

BLADE SIZE: 4.25"
TOTAL SIZE: 9.5"
WEIGHT: 6.8 oz.

Better start looking for a dress made from balistic nylon so you can carry it.
 
yes, 3 to 3.5 would be nice with a scaled down blade and body. ZT do I get a free knife for suggesting this? ha! :D
 
Just out of curiosty since people think the 560 is too big I compared my 550 to my 561.

The 550 actually weights .1 ounce more than the 561.
The 561s blade is 1/4 of an inch longer.

So that 1/4 of an inch makes all the difference to you guys?

Man you guys are hard to please :)
 
I'd like a blade 3 to 3.5, but a much reduced size of the body and blade, with all the weight savings that go with it....

What I picture, and not in exact size, but in scaling down, is going from a Strider AR to a SNG, or even PT. Something overly built, but in a more compact package.
 
What I'd like to see is a "runt" version, not just a perfectly scaled down version like CRKs Sebenza small.

Shorten the blade but actually widen the handle.
 
Wilco said:
Doh, I should have clarified my thoughts. A midsize Flipper in the look of the 560....
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Thats what IM talking about! I would buy lots of those. I have been modding my 350's to try and get there but it is still no midsize 560. Kershaw should seriously consider that. Logically it makes alot of sense and people would buy those up. I have heard lots of people talking about how the 560 is just a little big for comfortable EDC.

Kershaw, are you listening?
 
Clearly I'm not on the popular side of this discussion, but I can't at all appreciate a ZT like that, it doesn't sound like it would mesh with the spirit of the ZT Hinderers. ZT has always been the ballsy knife, up until recently, overbuilt and heavy. The Hinderers took that same notion and finessed it. Even so, both the 0550 and 0560 bring with them a sort of a nimbler sense of gusto that I don't think would be helped by making a tiny version of the bigger one.

I don't know, maybe it's just me, but the idea of "comfortable EDC" is something I go to Kershaw for, not ZT.
 
from one of the seemingly endless threads on this subject:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/980540-How-about-a-3-inch-version-of-the-560
RevDevil said:
I think Thomas mentioned it might never happen, it has been asked before repeatedly. The reasoning was that ZT knives are designed to be overbuilt, tough, and not for the regular run of the mill user. Hence the Cryo versions, and the 0550s. Some folks complain knives are too big, other tht knives are too small, too heavy, too light, etc. never a happy middle ground. You never know though, unless Thomas says that it is an absolute no.
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