Blade shape -- form or function or ......?

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BLM4L

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Here is something I have been wondering about in larger blade folders. For the tactical knife category is there a purpose for a single wave, or multiple waves on the underside of blade vs a more straight bottom side of the blade? Example: Kershaw Speed Bump vs Kershaw Boa. With the Boa I consider that as a single wave, while the Speed Bump has multiple waves. I am not sure if the wave is the right word.
Bottom Line: Are these artistic/cosmetic difference, or is there a function to these differences too?
 
Believe you are talking about a recurve blade.

Recurved blades are supposed to be good for slashing things (people?) because they have more cutting edge to them. I've never used one, so I can't tell you if it really works, but I believe that is the theory.
 
Thanks. You are right the term is recurve I think. I didn't know that the idea was more cutting area. Although I like the tactical look my main intended purpose is cutting boxes, twine, and whittling some wood. Where I go for a walk there are times there is a chance of animals deciding to go after you too though.
 
Hi BLM4L...

What part of WV? We're from Princeton (Mercer County), currently living in Atlanta (jobs), and planning to move back home to the mountain state ASAP. We'll probably settle in the panhandle between Harper's Ferry and Berkeley Springs. Need to grow our own vittles again and have a few acres to raise the pups (real ones... not skin kids).

BTW, I think that part of the attraction of recurve blades is that they act somewhat like hawkbills, staying on the material they are cutting better since they would curve over the material slightly in a draw cut and prevent it from slipping off easily. Don't really know fer sure... don't like their looks and don't have any, but I've heard users say that. There also seems to be some additional sharpening effort involved depending on how deep the recurve is.
 
I live in the Pan Handle in Berkeley County -- just south of Hagerstown, MD off of I 81. I used to live in Montana, which I miss severely. Lived in MD for 8 years but so tired of the sheeple attitudes as well as the inability to ever be able to get a CCW permit there. Living in Montana spoiled me with wide open country, low crime, and the pro knife and pro gun outlook there.
dalefuller said:
Hi BLM4L...

What part of WV? We're from Princeton (Mercer County), currently living in Atlanta (jobs), and planning to move back home to the mountain state ASAP. We'll probably settle in the panhandle between Harper's Ferry and Berkeley Springs. Need to grow our own vittles again and have a few acres to raise the pups (real ones... not skin kids).

BTW, I think that part of the attraction of recurve blades is that they act somewhat like hawkbills, staying on the material they are cutting better since they would curve over the material slightly in a draw cut and prevent it from slipping off easily. Don't really know fer sure... don't like their looks and don't have any, but I've heard users say that. There also seems to be some additional sharpening effort involved depending on how deep the recurve is.
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I think a whittler would appreciate the re-curve of say a BM 710 or similar mild re-curve blade as it gives the knife good whittling ability.
 
BLM4L said:
I live in the Pan Handle in Berkeley County -- just south of Hagerstown, MD off of I 81. I used to live in Montana, which I miss severely. Lived in MD for 8 years but so tired of the sheeple attitudes as well as the inability to ever be able to get a CCW permit there. Living in Montana spoiled me with wide open country, low crime, and the pro knife and pro gun outlook there.
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We stay at Green Valley, just across the line in PA every October. Berkeley Springs is the last WV town we go through before we cross into PA and it's the place we go for food, shopping, etc when we're at the cabin. We'll be there this October looking for a realtor to help us with property somewhere outside Shepherdstown or Charles Town. I thought I wouldn't go anywhere else except the southern highlands (Mercer or Fayette Counties), but that's absolutely gorgeous country in the panhandle and we decided to set up shop there when we leave Atlanta.

AS I remember, WV was pretty friendly territory for knife/gun owners. I carried a Buck 112 on my belt everywhere, even to college, and we were shooters when we lived there, just like the rest of the family.

Need to stay on topic in the forums here, but my e-mail is fullerd@bellsouth.net. Let's keep in touch and maybe we can get together when we're in your neck of the woods this October.
 
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