Thinnest Knife EVER?

The cricket is remarkable, but not applicable to this specific thread.
Criteria for entry into the "Thinnest Knife Ever" contest are:
1. THIN overall knife (duh.)
2. Folding
3. Enough handle to have room for all fingers, pinky included

Unless you have little midget girly gnome hands, there's no way you can fit all 4 top fingers around the cricket's handle. DO YOU have little midget girly gnome hands by chance? If so, I'm very sorry, and enjoy your cricket.
 
If you've got smallish hands, you might get all four fingers on a Benchmade 335. Two thin titanium slabs and a blade, no scales.

In a bigger knife, I'm doing a passaround with a Swamp Rat Rat Trap. It's the thinnest full-size folder I've personally seen.
 
I'm not sure what kind of work you have in mind or if you have eliminated the DoDo from consideration.

The DoDo has a robust Cricket-style blade with an extremely ergonomic handle long enough for my fairly wide hand to fit all my fingers on it, with a bit of the butt sticking out past my little finger.

The blade has an indentation on the back that fits my thumb perfectly, allowing me to exert serious force on it.

The ball lock works like an axis lock but doesn't project outside the handle scales. Excluding the wire clip, the width is about 5/16".
 
My Buck Mayo is thinner than my Native and Calypso Jr, and has a handle long enough to get all my fingers around it. I hardly notice it in my pocket.
 
You guys have given some damn find suggestions. My favorites so far are the Camillus D.R. EDC, the Buck Mayo TNT, and Rat Trap. (It boggles my mind why the Swamp Rat page doesnt even mention the Rat Trap)

Anyway, keep it coming. I'm being introduced to some real quality looking flat knives...and I like it... (drool)...
 
The Kershaw Vapors are very much like the Camillus EDC but much cheaper (prolly not as nice either, but...) I believe it's AUS-6.

I just measured my Vapor I (the Vapor II is bigger) and it's about 8mm thick, not including the pivot screw which adds 1mm or so. This is with the clip removed. It sounds like you won't be using the clip. I have no idea of the Vapor II is thicker in addition to being longer, but I don't think it would be.

Not bad for $2o.
 
I got it. Here it is right here. An old Schrade I forgot I even had. I picked this up at the A.G.Russell store in Fayetteville last time there right after Schrade went out of business. The Schrade Simon.


STR
 
one of the Al Mar ultralites? The Eagle is big enough for all four fingers. Not sure exactly how thin it is, though. Looks pretty thin.

Frank
 
ginshun said:
AG Russell Ultimate Pen Knife is probably the thinnest quality knife in existance. Might be the smallest too, but it is a great little knife. Titanium and VG-10, hard to beat. I was just comparing them, and the blade on my Syderco Native is thicker than the whole Ultimate Pen Knife.

I wish it was a lockback instead of a slip joiunt though.
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The next version is a vit larger and will be a lockback.

A. G.
 
Thinnest knife I own would be the Kershaw Vapor II. Tip-down, right side carry available in black or bead blasted coating. 3 3/4" 440A blade.
 
Remember, it's not just YOUR thinnest knife. It's the Thinnest Knife EVER. :cool:

Even the knives you've only felt in the store count too, but I'm a novice so my 707 vote is also my smallest.
 
I think my Benchmade 530 is definitely in the running, though my Spyderco Scorpius is a tad bit thinner. Both knives fit all four fingers comfortably. Good luck in your pursuit of "the thinnest knife ever".:)

Best wishes,
3Guardsmen
 
The Silver Fox really Knows, Al Mar ultralights are very thin and come in 3 sizes. Belive the pocket clip is removable so the'll get even thinner.
 
A. G. Russell said:
The next version is a vit larger and will be a lockback.

A. G.
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Awesome!


And as for the question at hand, the Ka-Bar Dozier Thorn is another one to check out as far as very thin knives go. D2 blade steel too. Not what I would call a heavy use knife, but still a very nice one.
 
Ok, the results: My very unofficial results are thus: The one hand knife and the douk douk seem to be about the thinnest possible assembly in a full sized knife. Only slightly, yet definitely larger are the ranks of the Camillus EDC, Buck TNT, Rat trap, and small Spydercos such as Scorpius and Navigator. Lastly, the ultimate pen knife looks to be the slimmest folding knife ever even concieved, and though it is not full sized, it deserves an honorable mention, and likely a future place in a VERY small pocket. :D Thanks to all of you.
 
The Mercator is just as thin as the Douk-Douk, has a more practical blade shape, and has a locking blade. It is perfectly practical.
 
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