Tiny Fixed Blade Knives

[RevolverRob]

I have, for a week, been going down a rabbit hole looking for a specific tiny knife I saw passingly on Instagram. This was mainly to share given the recent mention of the Lil Loco.

I finally found it, but in interim, I think I've looked at damn near every production/semi-production fixed blade under 4" in overall length. Here is a list of things I found:

Max Knives/Fred Perrin - Shorty LaGriffe
Max Knives/Fred Perrin - Pico LaGriffe
Station IX - Tire Slasher
Station IX - OSS Lapel Dagger
Boker - Lil' Friend Micro
MTech - 2092
KaBar - TDI Last Ditch
Schrade - Spare Change
Cold Steel - Mini Pal

And finally - the knife I was looking for the whole time:

True - Mycro: https://true.acgbrands.com/en_US/mycro-knife.html



At all of 27 bucks at Bezos land - this looks like a real winner for the sub-4" overall length category. Sheath sucks. But that could be fixed.

TRUE MYCRO Utility Knife, Fixed Blade Every Day Carry Razor Knife, Compact Boxcutter Neck Knife with Sheath - Black https://a.co/d/cDwSAbM

Overall this looks to have a lot going for it.

[GearFondler]

I'm waiting for Tod Begg Knives to re-release the Tree Frog later this year.

[paherne]

That would be perfect placed behind an exposed magazine pouch for use in uniform. Even better if you sprayed it with flat black spray paint or tan to match your deputy shirt/navy blue to match your pork suit. Much better solution than the TDI knives that many guys used.

[mtnbkr]

Could make a good companion to my SAK Minichamp.

Micro EDC Loadout:
J-frame or LCR in 38
SAK Minichamp
Mycro Knife
Yaesu VX-3r 2m HT



Chris

[RevolverRob]

I'm waiting for Tod Begg Knives to re-release the Tree Frog later this year.

The Tree Frog is a nice design, but it's quite a bit larger than this little Mycro thing, which is ~3.5" overall length. The Tree Frog is 4.75". In my experience, once you get above 4.5" of overall length the difference between that and a 5.5" Clinch Pick is pretty negligible.

If someone wants something more "neck knife" than the Clinch Pick the Perrin/Janich Confusion would be a good choice:



In general though once you go above 4.5" of overall length there are 10x as many knife offerings as well. It's this sub-4" category where things are rare.

No knock on the Begg design, BTW. I like the Tree Frog and especially the scaled versions Todd has made over the years. Todd is also a nice guy in my experience.

[Guerrero]

True - Mycro: https://true.acgbrands.com/en_US/mycro-knife.html



At all of 27 bucks at Bezos land - this looks like a real winner for the sub-4" overall length category. Sheath sucks. But that could be fixed.

Very interesting, but you're right: that sheath looks like it needs a lot of improvement for that size knife.

[RevolverRob]

Very interesting, but you're right: that sheath looks like it needs a lot of improvement for that size knife.

Yes it's too big and clunky for the blade size. I get where they were coming from for a variety of attachment points. But I should be possible to come up with something that uses a DCC Mod 3 and is much smaller in footprint. That said the one thing the stock sheath does seem to have going for it is the draw angle, that up and out motion makes sense for the knife shape.

[TOTS]

I have this little bugger under my belt a-la CP style. Handle is a bit small and I needed to add a dcc clip, but for a hopefully never needed blade, it works fine for me. Softer steel easily sharpens to a razor finish.

CRKT SPEW

[El Cid]

Always wanted to try a HAK for a last ditch blade. They used to advertise them mounted behind a suit coat lapel.

https://hideawayknife.com/

[Guerrero]

Always wanted to try a HAK for a last ditch blade. They used to advertise them mounted behind a suit coat lapel.

https://hideawayknife.com/

Imma take a pass on anything you put your fingers through ever since @Cecil Burch told me to Google "deglove".