Ernest, your normal sized knives seem slightly too small for my medium hands. The ergonomics don't work for me personally when scaled down. Mostly where the thumb ramp forces my very straight, not hitchhiker thumb to be. Full disclosure, I have only handled the full size 7, so I admittedly could be wrong about the others.
Based on my experiences, the ramp and wave on your knives pokes right into where my thumb would otherwise naturally control the spine, forcing me to open up and cramp my hand a bit, losing security. Especially on the small knives. I have experienced this with the minis.
So my opinion would be:
Smaller knives are more pocket and sheeple friendly, but your style is meant to be big and thick. To simply scale down an existing design doesnt work for me. The grinds end up more obtuse so they don't cut as well as their larger counterparts.
So if you could accommodate larger sized hands, thin those blades and either omit or modify the ramp/wave location, I would personally be a huge fan of the smaller ones. So maybe some original designs?
But plz never compromise your materials. Everyone bitches about the steel and hardness and locks and simple stuff. But this is the exact stuff that draws the majority of your fans to these knives, in this trendy world of unbreakable locks and brittle sulersteels that require tungsten to sharpen.
Do what you do.
An BTW, it is nice to have a maker participating in their community.
