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I see what you mean about the shoulder, looks like taking odd 1/16 to 1/8 of the width should be fine.

Like others have said, bigger blades are really not that more difficult to use, none of us...

Can you post a picture of the blade completely open?

With a 1/4 inch spine you can bring down the blade width to about 15/16 to 8/8

Shortening is easy

Shortening is not an issue at all, how long is it?

Making it smaller can be an issues, if you take away some width then the spine will have to thinned or the angle will be too large. How thick is...