Harpoon shaped blades. Why?

On the XM-18 I had a while back, it served as a nice place to put your index finger if you gripped it the right way.
 
David Mary said:
I have to agree with all this, with two exceptions: That pivot in the pic is one of them, namely I would rather see that beautiful blade as one end of a solid piece of steel, the tang extending all the way into the handle being the other end.

And for me, it would have to be either black socks with black pants, or white socks with tan pants. :D
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Meh, fashion renegade here. :D Actually, I just put on whatever’s clean, man.
 
That usually makes for a good day, I hear. ;)
 
Not for me, ruin the whole aesthetics of a nicely shaped and ground blades. I like simple, drop points, clip points and basically thats it for me. Stag gets a big nod too. keepem sharp
 
Why not a harpoon is why there on knives. The shape is really for looks and one use. Compund grinds as someone mentioned are useful if done right. A flat ground flat up and hollow ground belly is very useful.
 
dsalazar said:
Why not a harpoon is why there on knives. The shape is really for looks and one use. Compund grinds as someone mentioned are useful if done right. A flat ground flat up and hollow ground belly is very useful.
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What??-KV
 
The Randall Astro is one. The stated purpose was so the astronauts hand wouldn’t slip forward when used 2 handed to shear the bolts on the capsule door.
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This tip shape would be useful if you wanted to have a pronounced sharpened swedge.

Otherwise, I feel it is mostly aesthetics.
 
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You are able to have a thinner point and hence be sharper and penetrate better and still have some thickness. Without that top harpoon the spine would be inline with the tip. Thus it would be thicker. Other than that it’s for looks on a folder.
 
dsalazar said:
You are able to have a thinner point and hence be sharper and penetrate better and still have some thickness. Without that top harpoon the spine would be inline with the tip. Thus it would be thicker. Other than that it’s for looks on a folder.
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Im missing something.
Making a larger hole = penetrates better?
I could see it getting stuck depending on what your penetrating. If there was merit to it then make a long taper on the handle end. I guess I just dont see the functionality to it. It's going from tactical to hard use to my eyes?
 
fly36gti said:
Im missing something.
Making a larger hole = penetrates better?
I could see it getting stuck depending on what your penetrating. If there was merit to it then make a long taper on the handle end. I guess I just dont see the functionality to it. It's going from tactical to hard use to my eyes?
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It’s hard to justify that it makes a larger hole these blades are small so adding a couple mm on top is marginally a larger hole. Adding a couple mm to the top an tapering it to the tip makes it pointier and broader. So being pointer makes it penetrate better than without it. To understand the shape you’d have to research where it came from.
 
I think they look pretty cool.
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