Dagger/Sword Question

L6steel

L6steel

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What is the technical term for the ridge thats left down the middle of a double ground blade like a dagger or sword?? Medial ridge sounds nice and techy but is there a proper term for it?? Thanks folks!

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If its a hollow, its called a fuller. If it is a positive ridge, its a spine. No "proper" name other than that that I can find in any nomanclature.



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R.W.Clark

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I find it interesting how "westerners" don't have many names for the parts of a blade, yet if you look at a Japanese blade, there are a gazillion names! A name for the style of the ebd of the tang, a name for the top guard shoulder, a different dame for the bottong guard shoulder, different names for different tip lengths that wouldn't get different names in the west, etc. I don't think either approach is better or worse, but I just wanted to say this 'cuz I think it is a neat cultural thing.


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I just thank God we don't have their alphabet
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R.W.Clark

Proud Member : California Knifemakers Association
 
OK, so what do you call those two lines that connect the nostrils and the upper lip???
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