Anyone ever seen a hawkbill push/punch knife before?

[Charlie Mike]

Me neither. I hope you all think this is as cool as I do. I still have not completely finished the profile but hopefully the blue ink helps. This is 3/16" ATS34 and will be fully convex ground on one side.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

RARE Benchmade Kuma Zume Prototype Push Dagger

(Up for sale is) a very rare Benchmade Kuma Zume PROTOTYPE push dagger. The Kuma Zume (Japanese for "Bear Claw") is considered to be one of the best push daggers ever made. It was a very limited Benchmade run--only sold in part of 1996--and does not appear in any catalogs. It is one of the rarest Benchmades to come across ...

 

[Charlie Mike]

Well ****... Guess the good book was right about nothing new under the sun.

 

[Jd4003]

Well ****... Guess the good book was right about nothing new under the sun.

Ehh.. Your blade profile is more interesting anyways.

 

[Charlie Mike]

Thanks! It was inspired by some Reese Weiland hawks.

 

[razorsdescent]

I think your is gonna kick some serious a$$ when your finished with it. When you starting a webstore?

 

[Charlie Mike]

F*** webstores. All the people who know my work know how to reach me.

BTW... Here is an update pic as well as another push dagger that is ready to go off to HT.

 

[Charlie Mike]

Ready to go out for HT.

 

[brets-ftw]

lookin pretty good CM

 

[tyr_shadowblade]

Claw of doom FTW!!!

 

[docbp87]

It looks cool, but isn't the hawkbill shape kind of counter-intuitive to the function of a push knife? Specifically that a hawkbill is for pull-cutting towards the user, and a push knife is... well you know.

 

[Charlie Mike]

Exactly! I was kinda inspired to do this by Tyr froma comment he left me about my hawkbill balisong.

In fact, if this catches on and I make more of them, I'll name it after him.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

A hawksbill does pull cuts well, but that's not all it does. If you take a regular knife and hold it in your hand in a hammer grip, the blade points up. To aim the point at your target, you need to bend your wrist, losing strength at contact. In the same grip, a hawksbill blade's tip is point directly forward.

 

[res1cue]

Ready to go out for HT.

If I carried this knife, I would feel like a velociraptor all the time.

 

[Charlie Mike]

 

[Superdave1]

A hawksbill does pull cuts well, but that's not all it does. If you take a regular knife and hold it in your hand in a hammer grip, the blade points up. To aim the point at your target, you need to bend your wrist, losing strength at contact. In the same grip, a hawksbill blade's tip is point directly forward.

Not going to hold a pushdagger in a hammer grip though

 

[Appletz]

Don't know if it would work but a ring might be cool on this claw design. Crude photoshop:

 

[Charlie Mike]

I like that. It would also function as a knuckle duster.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

I've seen a few examples of Indian katar with curved blades. Very rare, but I have seen them.

 

[CWL]

I've got the original ones of these ground by Micky Strider (the actual one in this picture, I believe). One in stainless and one in Ti. I don't know how many he made, so mine may be one-off/prototypes.

The first thing I thought when I saw your pics is that you should add a ring to your design.