Thread: small knife design , your input.

Here is a little selection of what I use from top to bottom with advantages and inconveniences:
Cold steel drop forge hunter ( French design of a friend of a friend) good heavy blade shape. Actually too heavy but the same in a smaller and lighter format would work great. Not too pointy for gutting. Not really suitable for fishing.
Opinel gardner number 8: my do everything knife, good blade design to do everything, not too pointy, blade fine enough to do a bit of fish work, stainless, easy to resharp and very light.
Helle with Scandinavian edge: super easy to get sharp . Very Good for hunting , skinning and gutting. Not designed for fishing
Ruike : a bit of a towny hipster knife. Probably better at hunting than fishing.
Norman E. Sandow: I find the blade too pointy for gutting and skinning also it still work well for cutting meat out and deboning ( gently). The blade is fine and works pretty well on fish.
Forge Enault: again too pointy for gutting but does fine for other hunting tasks. Not the best for fish as the blade is too thick and prone to rust easily
My grand dad Fiskar filleting knife: my favourite fishing knife. I also use it for removing sinews from venison back steaks.

Just my view on those different shapes. I am not sure that a same knife can do very well for both hunting and fishing. You will have to compromise somewhere I think. Model A is probably what would work best for what I do I think.