Good call. I’ll do that. I have extremely small hands, so most of my designs tend to hedge toward that side of things.Looks very good on paper. In fact it looks beautiful. My suggestion is to cut one out of cardboard and hold it. I would be very surprised if you don't come to the conclusion that the handle feels a bit short. No matter how it looks on paper, a 4 inch handle is probably going to feel crowded. Just my opinion.
Trust me, I CAN NOT draw. Go invest $7 in a set of French curves. If you feel like splurging get some drafting pencils and a good eraser. Makes all the difference in the world.I favor simple or classic designs so it's art to me. Man I wish I could draw.
Beautiful designs...I'm with john on handle length in general...Usually as I "shrink" a design the blade become shorter and the handle longer...On very small knives you can go short if the end of the knife is more ball like...so you can "seat" it in your palm and still have a strong hold.
All that being said...I don't have big hands and the smaller blade would be perfect for me.
My little knife is 3.6 from the stop at the ricasso to the end. I made the front short so you can "pinch" the blade easy and the back round so you can palm it well and have not heard any complaints. I think as soon as you add "Pinch" room to the front of the handle it sends the signal that this is a small knife that you choke up on to use...
Just some of my opinions....I got lots...
I like both designs also, not all that much difference that I can see. Now, one thing to comment on and not sure it's even an issue. BUT - your lanyard hole - that seems to be pretty close to the edge which would make it easy for the wood to break out in making, and make it hard to do a flare on ends of lanyard tube. You might consider using only two pins, then moving the lanyard hole down some - not totally in line with the last pin, but in that direction so the lanyard tube serves the purpose of last pin. Not sure it would work, just tossing it out for comments.