Is there a difference between Bill Hook and Hawk Bill?

[TheMightyGoat]

I'm searching google for Bill Hook folders, and I keep getting stuff on Hawk Bill folders. I'm not sure if there's a difference.

 

[crosman177]

Try using the search function on BLADEFORUMS!

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/search.php?s=

 

[mschwoeb]

I have never heard of Bill Hook myself.

 

[TheMightyGoat]

Originally posted by mschwoeb
I have never heard of Bill Hook myself.

It may be only a bladeart.com term, but I assumed it was more common than that. Bladeart is the only place I've heard it.

 

[Gabe Newell]

Bill Hook is the name of a medieval tool used for lopping tree limbs, that then got turned into a weapon for lopping off people limbs.

"Bill hooks were english weapons similar in shape to the guisarme, but perhaps with somewhat less hook in general. They followed a different evolution, such that any weapon that was similar to a glaive or fauchard, but with extra bits thrown in, was often called a bill. So, in terms of origination, bill-guisarme would be a bit redundant, but in terms of later meaning, a bill-quisarme was a bladed weapon with multiple sharpened edges and spikes, and with a hook."

"The preferred weapon of this period for an none professional soldier was the bill hook, or some other long pole weapon, such as the halberd. The bill hook was generally a modified hedging bill (an agricultural tool still in use today), with an added spike for thrusting, and a hacking edge for splitting armour. For closer range simple weapons such as axes and mallets (Mauls) would have been employed. Against lightly armoured opponents, the combats was usually fast and very deadly."

More than you ever wanted to know about billhooks

 

[PWork]

gaben nailed it. If you are familiar with a brush hook, it is basically the same thing as a bill hook.

Paul

 

[Hawkbill]

Cool...never knew of the bill hook.

 

[PWork]

Another name is the "hedging bill". Like the flail, the bill was originally a farming implement.

Paul

 

[The Deacon]

And if what you are looking for is a folder like the wood handled one on the green background in gaben's picture, try looking up "linoleum knife" or "lineman's knife" or "pruning knife" (although most pruners look a lot more like hawkbills). Case still makes at least one, in their "working knives" catgory, am sure other makers also do.

 

[Grover_Cephas]

Originally posted by Hawkbill
Cool...never knew of the bill hook.

I'm guessing you never played D&D?