Blade Design - What's New?

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We are all familiar with blade designs such as clip/drop point, wharncliffe, sheepsfoot, etc and all their modifications. But what is NEW? What would you consider be blade design of the 21st century? Or is their none - has our imaginations stagnated.
 
When it comes to blade design I don't think that there is anything that hasn't been done at some time in the past. You may see some modifications to a known style, but I can't say that I have seen anything new that I would call the design of the 21st century.
 
There are lots of possible modifications to the standard blade shapes. I'd guess the drop point and leaf-shaped blades were knapped from flint over thirty thousand years ago. All the other standard shapes are probably all there will be, since anything else would have been tried and failed. For example, the fantasy or teenage mutant ninja blade styles are eye-catchers, but they snag everything else, too, instead of sliding in and doing the job cleanly.
 
The Darrell Ralph Krait (Outdoor Edge Impulse) has a sort of recurve + americanized tanto tip that is relatively new, and still pretty useful.
 
Maybe the modified sheepsfoot on the Benchmade Griptilians or the reverse tantos on the Benchmade Osbornes?

Even those are not really "new"--just modified versions of the original design.

Allen.
 
Nothing is new. It's all a variation of something that was done a long time ago.
 
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