Blade Geometry – Poll

My personal favorite is an over thick tanto with a slightly steeper angle on the secondary edge. traditional tanto styles are great to but I find that longer lengthed cuts are easier with the modified secondary edge.

Dark Nemesis


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All the knives in the world go round and round, round and round, round and round...DAMN, one of them took my wallet !!! :)


 
Zog:
Thanks for the Hossom site link.
Great designs.
Did you say you have one of his knives?
I'd like to read a review, some time.
They look formidable and easy to the hand.

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Luke 22:36, John 18:6-11
 
Clip point with hollow grind. Mmmmm.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, a tanto blade with a thick spine offers a ton of tip strength, but virtually no belly, ala Recon Tanto.

Well, to each his own.
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Shawn
"Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless."

 
3000+ of us and only 23 have an opinion about blade geometry?

Come on folks, tell us what you think!

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James
 
I like a hunting blade to not be over 4" and flat ground w/ convex edge, and a thin blade. Second choice would be a high hollow-grind & thin blade. Prefer a clip point and a close second is the drop-point.
 
For utility, I think I'd see eye-to-eye with Mr. Griffith on this one (and with many of the folks above): full flat grind, drop-point that leaves lots of belly. Same basic shape in a clip-point is good, too, just prefer the drop-point looks. If I want it stronger I'd rather use thicker stock than saber-grind it.

For special-purpose stuff I'm a big fan of the Civilian's unique defense-oriented shape. I have my own odd Kuhkri/Bowie sort of shape that I like very well on big knives - hard to describe, but basically a flat-ground recurve with a long clip that doesn't cut into the maximum thickness of the spine. I'm also trying a point grind that I hope will dispel this "you need a tanto to have a strong point" myth - we'll see how that goes. You know how much I love tantos, too
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-Drew
 
Flat grind, especially on a Chisel edged blade, very keen.

The Japanese swords are neat in the fact that when they are sharpened the entire facet of the side is thinned as the sword is sharpended, where as on regular secondary bevel knives, as you sharpen you start backing into a thicker part of the blade. The Tanto I made has a chisel edge that goes straight to the edge and as over the years as I sharpen it, the flat will shrink along with the edge keeping it snapping sharp.

Favorite blade shape though is and always will be that old Wharncliff, can't help it...

G2

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain

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