I usually prefer a slim fixed blade to a big brick of a folder but when I am wearing all the winter clothes that is necessary so you don't die on the way to the car here in Saskatchewan throwing the chinook3 in the pocket is no problem.
Even the big bricks fit in a pocket better than a fixed blade.


Folders are more socially acceptable just because people are more used to them being carried although the huge and wicked blades on my Chinook3 or serrated Police get some double takes.

I was thinking that the most low profile blade might be to carry a Byrd or Spydertool. People don't seem to mind a knife on a multitool and the blades on the Byrd tool is a LOT better than every other multitool knife. It is also one heck of a clever tool. I am pretty impressed with the steel they use on those Byrd knives.
It is the same steel as the Tenacious as well.

I have an Emerson waved plain edge Commander 150$ paperweight as well. I like the knife but it really is more of a fighter than a tool and my chinook3 does both just as well.