Can we explain blade shapes/grinds in here please?!?

[tabeeb762]

Photo courtesy Benchmade:

looks like a higonokami

 

[Unbreakable]

Man... there's a lot of misinformation in here.

Why don't you help and straighten some of it out rather than just sitting there running your mouth.

 

[Unbreakable]

Spear Point

Must a spear point always be double edged? Is the dual bevel the thing that makes a spear point what it is? Is that the defining characteristic?

 

[fudo]

Spear Point

This knife is not sharpened on the back edge. It is a spear point due to the shape of the blade. Many spear pointed knives are sharpened, but they don't have to be.

 

[Greg]

A spear point is generally with the point on the midline and a matching profile top and belly on the blade.
A drop point has the point above the midline of the blade but dropped from a line straight along the back.
Greg

 

[Josh K]

Spear point:

The native has (I believe) a hollow grind on it. The M21 does as well.

Blunt (Safety tip):

Sheepsfoot (Safety, but less extreme):

Clip point:

Drop point:

Wharncliffe:

Pictures are all (c) Spyderco, with the exception of the M21-SFG (c) CRKT.

 

[Josh K]

Modified clip (no upsweep):

Hawkbill:

Bowie (downsweep and upsweep):

Pictures are all (c) Spyderco, with the exception of the M21-SFG (c) CRKT.