A WINNER!!Flat Beveled Bolsters or, What's in a Name? Clarification added!!

My suggestions would be:

  • Flat Top
  • Table Top

*** EDIT: please disregard my suggestions, I thought we were offering names for the bolsters, not a knife pattern - so much for my reading comprehension skills, and to quote Homer Simpson, "D'oh!"... Best of luck to everyone else!
 
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Not an entry but maybe "Flatlander"? Great stuff, whatever you call it!
 
They remind me of beveled glass my mom used for stained glass projects, or old beveled mirrors.

Church-glass? Looking-glass?

Flatliners seems oxymoronic for a bolster/scale treatment that doesn't affect the liners IMO.

I personally would love to see a punch blade on this style!
 
Old & In The Way said:
My suggestions would be:

  • Flat Top
  • Table Top

*** EDIT: please disregard my suggestions, I thought we were offering names for the bolsters, not a knife pattern - so much for my reading comprehension skills, and to quote Homer Simpson, "D'oh!"... Best of luck to everyone else!
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Eh? I think we are looking for names for the flat beveled bolsters. The pattern already has a name - magnum.

Or have I misunderstood Charlie?
 
pmew said:
Eh? I think we are looking for names for the flat beveled bolsters. The pattern already has a name - magnum.

Or have I misunderstood Charlie?
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That's the way I understood the premise. That flat bevel in joinery is called a 'chamfer', or that angle is 'chamfered'.
 
The first thing that popped into my mind was "jarhead."

Not a barehead, but a head with a flat top, like a military cut, or a jarhead. Works for me. :)
 
How about, "Continental" bolsters?

Sophisticated, charming, cultured.

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The dovetail? I think a body shaped like a dovetail joint / \ with flat bolsters and chamfering would look great
 
I've always just referred to them as being chamfered, but I like flatliner as a suggestion.

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Cheap and cheerful A Wright Barlow, but the nicest one in the shop on that day.

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My favourite knife, and first custom piece. Modded wharnie from JM.
 
^^More generally, maybe jewel-cut/gemstone bolsters? (not diamond edge of course :D)

You might say the knife has 'mitered edges'
Maybe a 'stepped bevel'

I also like the previous page's suggestion of 'plateau'
 
Flat Lands
Flat Plains
Plain/Plains, though it doesn't sound as good as the above two in my opinion.

Don't ask me why but when you want a name for a knife like that for some reason it reminded me of a plain.
 
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