Best way to identify subtle grind types?

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I am wondering what the best way to view the type of grind on a blade is.

For some of the more obvious grinds like Chisel grinds, it is no problem at all.But some grinds are harder to identify on a knife, and looking at it never led me to an answer with some of them.
I have had knives which were stated as "Hollow Ground" on the specs but when I looked at them, I could not tell the difference between them and a knife I knew to have a sabre or flat grind - other knives the shape was fairly obvious to me when looking. Either the knife grind was far more subtle, or the blade geometry did not lend to looking at it in an angle to get a good view.
I have no particular knife in question right now, but it was a problem I had a few times and am looking for what you guys do if you are looking at a knife in person and aren't sure of the grind at first?
 
As you get a better feel for knives you can actually feel a hollow grind, and as mentioned above you can use a straight edge. I google knife grinds and all sorts of illustrations that are labeled with the name of the grind come up.
 
Yeah I go by feel as well, I've just actually ran into a few knives where I could not tell what it was regardless of feeling it, looking at it from various angles and lighting - usually it was because of the geometry of the blade in the first place, like the hollow on the CRKT Graphite is pretty obvious, you can actually see it from all angles and it is ground that way from front to back. Some hollow grinds not having as much of an indentation or slope

I remember when I got my CRKT Fulcrum 2 I had to look up what it was just because I was unsure - it was rather subtle - enough so that even looking for it now it is hard to notice.
 
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