Thinnest knife you own?

[T. Erdelyi]

I get conflicting opinions, I believe it's between the 20s-40s ,(close to the 20s) due to the lack of pattern#s and strange stamping on the opposite side of the blade.

Someone at a show once told me that the knife was probably modded on the factory floor by an employee who made it for himself and that's why the initials were stamped in the tang. It looks like the stamping was done pre heat treat as the stamp is crisp, even and deep.

I've had this knife in my collection since moving to PA 25 years ago, got it at an estate sale for $3, it came with a velvet pouch.

 

[gr8dismal]

Main blade on a SAK.

 

[leghog]

My Case Eisenhower style Pen in green bone has the thinnest most flexible I've ever seen...

uuuugggggghhhhhhhhh. One day it'll snap, and you'll cry.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

uuuugggggghhhhhhhhh. One day it'll snap, and you'll cry.

That's why I took the pic, so I didn't have to keep doing it. The blade acts like a fillet blade it always returns to true. I was told by someone at a show once that it was for cleaning out the bowl on a tobacco pipe.

 

[leghog]

That's why I took the pic, so I didn't have to keep doing it. The blade acts like a fillet blade it always returns to true. I was told by someone at a show once that it was for cleaning out the bowl on a tobacco pipe.

I'd never clean one of my pipes with a pointed blade.

 

[burnside]

Currently my thinnest knives are my Case Mini Copperlock, and my Vic Alox Cadet. I'm not sure which one is more thin without doing a comparison, but I have a feeling that the Cadet comes out as the thinner of the two.

 

[N.E.Tim]

My thinnest knife is my small Case Lockback.
This has been the handyist knife that I have had because there is always room in my pocket.
I have used this to cut banding off bundles of conduit in the trench while the backhoe operator was backfilling as fast as we could install it.
It has come in handy when I found out it that was all I had in a crawlspace to strip wire.
It measures 2 1/2 " closed X 3/16 " thick