It certainly has come to be believed that small torches are the right torch. I'm just curious about the whole thing. These small torches were designed for aircraft welding for the most part. When reviewing tape from the period when these torches where most heavily used, even when doing something like welding a canteen, any job no mater how small, they have pretty large torches in their hands. At this time in the history of the craft, materials were heavily rationed. Had there been a way to reduce the material required to make anything, they probably would have done so, but they provided fairly large torches, and people welded and brazed with them all day long, with standard hoses. I wonder to what extent one needs a lightweight torch with small hoses, to lead the braze delicately around, because the torch is so small and so slow it's like shoveling snow with a teaspoon.

In the craft revival thing, it isn't all that unusual for the delicacy thing to get out of hand. I have seen people get the weight out of an archtop guitar plate with little violin planes the size of one's thumbnail, when in the old days they shifted the majority of that material with a guttering adze and bench sized compass planes. People think they are being masterful and super accurate by using only the finishing tools. Given the heat phobia in this field I wouldn't be surprised.

That's all OT, though. I would buy a small torch myself, just because it's always best to copy the standard, unless the point is to try something weird out. I don't count my Meco because I use it for welding.