Seeking small fixed blade for appendix carry

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Through my late teenage years and college, I was a fixed blade nut. I still have a drawer of various neck knives I carried in various manners. However, wisdom and common sense eventually kicked in. As I started working in the nonprofit sector and was spending more time in suits and gala tuxedos than jeans, my fixed blade days are a distant memory. Instead I've spent the last few years with a pink Delica that has gone around the country and planet a couple times, along with its red training drone which still sees use in the martial arts I've pursued. Politically speaking, a folding knife is the way of the future and I accepted its limitations.

However, that doesn't stop me from being an insecure male who likes making up reasons to buy toys...In particular, I've fallen in with a crowd that pursues full-contact training. I study knife, stick, and empty hand with the Dog Brothers crowd, and my firearms doctrine is from a more modern group that balances common sense with pressure testing. Accordingly, when legal and morally sound, we've all taken to appendix-carrying full-sized or sub-sized pistols along with a reload right up in the front on both ends of the belt buckle. It all hides under a tee shirt depending on your build, is completely ambidextrous, and is very fast to draw. However, they've taken it a bit further. Right now, my pink Delica has been shifted from my waistband to my right inner pocket where it's high enough to stay concealed, as it has for years. Now fighters from both my firearms crowd and my combatives crowd are embracing the blade being carried right up front with the gun, off to the left next to the reload where the left or right hand can reach it. While I've gotten pretty good at opening my Delica safely under pressure...Nothing tops a little fixed blade.

And after years of being out of the blade scene trying to be an adult, I'm looking to see what's new and snazzy on the market. So, within a reasonable price range, what kind of small fixed blade would be suitable for strapping or tucking into the front of a pair of pants next to a Glock and mag pouch? I have extremely small hands which may make smaller models possible, my training has been exclusively forward or saber grip and thus I'm not looking for anything reversed. Nothing custom-made or gold plated ideally, this is going to be carried hard and ideally should be disposable enough I don't mind banging it around.
 
Also, the CRKT minimalist or Spew models. Minimalist can be bought at Walmart, Spew at gander mountain.

Here's a sheath I made for my minimalist.







And if you're looking for a defensive blade, a trainer is a must.

 
Spartan Blades Enyo with an under 3" S35VN blade, very flat and the kydex sheath allows IWB carry.

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Crkt.... Obake. I carry one in my right front pocket with paracord wraped around my belt loop.
 
Bradford Guardian 3. Google them or check 'em out here on search function. N690 for not much, and 3V or M390 for a bit more. Dozier is great, but costs more, see A G Russell
Neal
 
I second the obake, but I appendix carry on the right, or just let it hang upside down in my jeans sometimes


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^ What's that? Details, people. Details. D:

Esee Candiru is the smallest version and I think works better for everyday carry. Packs so much in compact size. The Izula already sits at the start of the average size knife.

Boker Subcom Edit fixed is a good design and build too.
 
Don't forget about having something made for you.

A point without a lot of edge belly will be closer in shape to a hook, more perpendicular to the skin or clothing, and this will make the typical dagger, sheepsfoot/Wharncliffe tip slice better for broad shallow cuts at maximum reach, which are less likely to get you accused or murder, while aiding in penetration.
An additional upside is that when most folks see that they have a large gaping flesh wound, they will flee. Even though the wound isn't often life threatening, it will bleed profusely...

The Tanto, whose advantage is supposedly to tip slice, is actually the opposite of that, and is the worst shape of all for a defensive knife (short of a full-fledged skinner-type tip, which is even worse)... This disadvantage of Tantos can be mitigated by raking the point profile angle to the extreme, which some do, but this is not common.

(Thanks to Gaston444 for the education, I took his post from another thread and edited it to fit as a reply here.)
 
Here's a tanto I made with a more offensive rake...

 
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