Seeking small fixed blade for appendix carry

[Knifestyle]

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. And when I think cutting edge and innovation, of course it's a Spyderco. 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.

[bearfacedkiller]

Street Beat. I love mine.

The Ark is small and probably too small for me.

The Moran would be a good option.

The Ronin and Reverse are both purpose built SD knives but I have no experience with them and have not tried to conceal them.

I like the Street Beat the most of all of these but the Ronin is probably the better SD knife.

[SpyderNut]

Darby nailed it. I would only add the original Ronin to the list, if you can find one.

[dogrunner]

Ronin for forward grip, Reverse for PKal. Both carry very flat, and were designed by real experts. Read about 'em. I also have small hands and both give very secure grips.

[zhyla]

I'm always amazed at how much stuff some people are willing to carry.

[twinboysdad]

If you want THE appendix fixed blade, it is not made by Spyderco but was designed by Craig Douglas who did design the Spyderco Reverse. The Clinch Pick is the bar none best for what you are alluding to. If has a drone trainer as well.

[roger-roger]

I've never been one to use folders much for everyday utility use, but have been carrying my L91 Delica strictly SD for the last 10 years.

Been looking for a small fixed for backpack carry on trail workouts etc, and I like that the Reverse allows edge out with a reversible handle.

There's also the Halloran 3 Finger, but that one imo needs some drop to the point.




Edit: "small folder" to "small fixed"

[Evil D]

I'm always amazed at how much stuff some people are willing to carry.

Come to the dark side...we have cookies......and expensive pens, notebooks, ti bottle openers, keychain gadgets, electronic devices, awesome backpacks, etc etc.

[sal]

I think the Enuff is worth a look. We've been refining the sheath, and it's a worthy reliable chunk of steel. It's overbuilt for it's size, athough I have thought about reducing the steel thickness.

sal

[SuckSqueezeBangBlow]

I think the Enuff is worth a look. We've been refining the sheath, and it's a worthy reliable chunk of steel. It's overbuilt for it's size, athough I have thought about reducing the steel thickness.

sal

Sal, I love my Enuffs but even the sheath 2.0 feels really cheap and doesn't hold the knife very well. Will you consider a Boltaron version?

[Evil D]

I think the Enuff is worth a look. We've been refining the sheath, and it's a worthy reliable chunk of steel. It's overbuilt for it's size, athough I have thought about reducing the steel thickness.

sal

Make the sheepsfoot in plain edge!

[SpyderNut]

I think the Enuff is worth a look. We've been refining the sheath, and it's a worthy reliable chunk of steel. It's overbuilt for it's size, athough I have thought about reducing the steel thickness.

sal

Make the sheepsfoot in plain edge!

Or perhaps even Combo-Edge?

[SpyderNut]

I'm always amazed at how much stuff some people are willing to carry.

Come to the dark side...we have cookies......and expensive pens, notebooks, ti bottle openers, keychain gadgets, electronic devices, awesome backpacks, etc etc.

Indeed. :D The Dark Side is a fantastic place to be. You will be cash poor in the Dark Side, but at least you will be rich in the items David mentioned above. :o :D

[Evil D]

I'm always amazed at how much stuff some people are willing to carry.

Come to the dark side...we have cookies......and expensive pens, notebooks, ti bottle openers, keychain gadgets, electronic devices, awesome backpacks, etc etc.

Indeed. :D The Dark Side is a fantastic place to be. You will be cash poor in the Dark Side, but at least you will be rich in the items David mentioned above. :o :D

I may be completely broke but I'm toting around enough crap in my EDC bag to get me out of any situation as good or better than MacGyver could :cool:

[SpyderNut]

I'm always amazed at how much stuff some people are willing to carry.

Come to the dark side...we have cookies......and expensive pens, notebooks, ti bottle openers, keychain gadgets, electronic devices, awesome backpacks, etc etc.

Indeed. :D The Dark Side is a fantastic place to be. You will be cash poor in the Dark Side, but at least you will be rich in the items David mentioned above. :o :D

I may be completely broke but I'm toting around enough crap in my EDC bag to get me out of any situation as good or better than MacGyver could :cool:

Dang straight. As long as I have duct-tape, super glue, and a Dragonfly2, I'm good-to-go.