Smallest Knife You've Ever Batoned With

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This would include folders and fixed blade knives. Please cite reasons you batoned with the knife and how well it stood up to it. Photos would be great!
 
Esee Izula:

Why? Because I needed to cut & and split some wood. Its still alive and I carry it all the time, Its my goto user.

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1 stick fire

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Clearing limbs..

I couldn't really see batoning with anything smaller...
 
Smallest I've ever batoned with was my Pendleton Lite. It actually worked pretty well for splitting a chunk of firewood into smaller kindling. Both the spine and edge showed no evidence of my actions, even though I split the wood into 40 or so pieces.
 
I've batoned with a custom Koyote necker that is just slighly smaller than an Izula, as well as a Condor necker that is smaller then an Izula. I did it to break down some smaller pieces of wood into kindling for a fire. Size only limits the size of limbs you can baton. If the knife is smaller, you just need to baton smaller pieces of wood. The shorter the blade, the smaller the diameter of the pieces of wood you can split.
 
Victorinox SAK. Can't remember the model - probably a Huntsman. No damage to knife whatsoever.
 
Bark River Little Creek. I used it to split some kindling down. It did a great job, acted a lot like a spliting wedge.
 
CRKT Minimalist wharncliffe, just to see if it could take some light batoning. It works great if you only need to batton small sticks
 
KaBar ZK Archeron and Becker BK11.

Why? Because I was testing both of them, and thought that would be an interesting comparison. In short, I want any fixed blade I have to be able to withstand batoning that is within reason, because if that is my only tool, I'd like to know that it could handle it if needed.

The full review.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...K11-vs-AK-Archeron-courtesy-of-Whereismyclock

The archeron
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The BK11 (which was choiled by the previous owner).
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And both with the successful split.
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Both handled it pretty well. To be honest, it was very easy wood to split (no knots, and very dry), but they both worked fine. If I was to choose though, the BK11 was much better at this (WAY less vibration to my hand, and with more to hold to while).
 
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