I hear you, and wouldn't try to change anybody else's practice on what works for you. For me in the kitchen, again I gravitate toward either small paring knives (3" to 4+"), or to large chef knives or long slicers for larger tasks. Come to think of it, I do have a Wuesthof knife about 6" that is the "best tool" for some intermediate size slicing tasks, where paring would be too small, and chef knife is larger-than-necessary. So yeah, this seems like a valid case where a knife in the 5" to 6" range could be best tool for the job.
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I hear you, and wouldn't try to change anybody else's practice on what works for you. For me in the kitchen, again I gravitate toward either small paring knives (3" to 4+"), or to large chef knives or long slicers for larger tasks. Come to think of it, I do have a Wuesthof knife about 6" that is the "best tool" for some intermediate size slicing tasks, where paring would be too small, and chef knife is larger-than-necessary. So yeah, this seems like a valid case where a knife in the 5" to 6" range could be best tool for the job.
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Knives in this size range definitely have their purpose especially in fire prep (not so much for chopping the hand saws are for that but good for batoning etc.) they are also good as a general camp utility knife which can double as self defense weapon. A good choice for your one knife option in your emergency kit (because if you can only take one you are generally not taking 3" or 12" knife)
I think that is true, I've found these size knives CAN chop (especially well designed heavy bladed ones like the BK2), but in general they're not optimized for it. But....they CAN be really good if you do a lot of splitting of small kindling. Fully agree that for that job, I'd rather have a 5.5 to even 6.5" blade rather than the small profile I've been carrying. Though again, I don't personally need that because I have been carrying the larger knives for that role. Again, this gets back to the whole "if you only want to carry one" type of thing, these blades seem to fill that sweet spot very well.