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joeradza said:
That's what I think of when I hear small. Thin and gentlemanly. The Case Senator you post oldtymer is a favorite.
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redsparrow said:
I was hoping you'd show up and give us a look at those wonderful "classics" of yours. Thank you Sir! :thumbsup:
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Thank you both for the kind words. Both of you have displayed remarkable samples on the forum & I always look forward to seeing your posts.
 
Lots of really nice smalls being posted, but so far I haven't seen many of yesterday's popular smalls, the lobsters. At one time they were common and the Orange Blossom lobster was one of the most expensive.
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Chief said:
Couple more of my favorite smalls, 3.25" mammoth Davison and tiny 2.75" Rogers carbon fiber peanut.

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Everything you've posted is amazing, but that peanut really sticks out to me. Linerless? Great lines on the clip too.
 
redsparrow said:
In 1978 a friend gave me the 3" wood and brass knife pictured below.
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It's been a useful knife that I carried daily for several years but I kept it mostly because it was the very first product I'd ever seen stamp "China".

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The Kershaw is even smaller and looks cool.
 
The advantages of smalls are many. The little jewels in this thread are great, and I especially love the older ones that look like someone carried them a long way over a long time.

Modern life has become very cumbersome, with cell phones, pens, and other things that take up pocket room. Being an "older" person, I find a Bison capsule of meds, RONCO pocket defibrillator in case of vapor lock, note pad and pencil to jot down notes to self since suffering from 'can't remember stuff ' syndrome, and spare bandana's and other stuff. Since moving to Texas, the right front pocket is now taken up with a small handgun and/or small flip phone. I haven't caved to the smart phone yet, I'm not sure I'm smart enough for one.

So, that leaves keychain carry and coin pocket carry. Hence my ever increasing love of the smalls. My true long time love was the peanut, but age and arthritis has made that difficult to deal with stiffly sprung small knives with half stops. But...the small lobster pattern SAK's like classic's and executives, and other coin pocket size knives like the Case mini copper head and Boker pen knives are still doable.

The coin pocket has become my size standard for a pocket knife these days, and there seems to be a large selection to choose form. The small SAK's are in most big box stores as well as the small Buck's like the mini Buck and 303 cadet.

In modern suburban American life, a coin pocket size knife seems able to do what needs to be done with a small sharp edge. The small's can open a letter, a plastic blister package, cut twine, or open a bag of mulch as well as a larger knife, yet slides back in the coin pocket and out of sight handout of mind so well.

The small's are great, and you all have show some very very nice smalls!
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