Let's see those clip points!

[Comeuppance]

Love 'em or love 'em, you gotta love 'em.

 

[Railsplitter]

Good golly! I just browsed through my collection photos and I have too many Clip blade traditionals to post. Looks like maybe 80% of mine have at least one Clip blade.

I'll post my current favorite. It actually has two Clip blades. Case/Bose Cattle knife.

 

[jc57]

Yeah, I might as well just post a link to my Photobucket account and let you browse through it. Ignore the few spear points, Wharncliffes, and cat pictures and the rest are pretty much clips.

 

[Ryouchijtx]

Haha mm I've got a mix of zulu spears, drop points and clip points in my collection.
-Halfrich TBose 3.5" Trapper : Inner cut pre ban elephant ivory

-GEC 66 Texas Rose : Modded to single blade by Glennbad

-Gene Wiseman Bowie Clip Frontpocket : Antique Westinghouse micarta

-TC Barlow Walnut 2Blade

My very first custom: Bret Dowell shadow trapper in natural micarta.

Now gone but deserved a photo of their wonderful clips

-Scagel Fruitport : Elephant Ivory

-TA Davison : CF + Ironwood Burl :

 

[Comeuppance]

Haha mm I've got a mix of zulu spears, drop points and clip points in my collection.
-Halfrich TBose 3.5" Trapper : Inner cut pre ban elephant ivory

I love this. Wow.

 

[pertinux]

A clip point blade is my default favorite, remaining a mainstay on what springs to mind first I hear or think about a "jack knife"-- which was the precursor to ever hearing refer to a folding, traditional knife by any other moniker.

A picture of some of mine...

... As inspired by the thread, The Clip Point-- simple formula, endless variety.

Comeuppance, I look forward to seeing everyone's new/recent images here, but I think you'll enjoy the thread linked above, and its first post. I return to it often:

I was looking through my collection the other day, and it struck me how much I like the clip point. It's easily my favorite main-blade shape, and it's kind of amazing how much variety such a simple shape can provide:


When you think about it, there's really only a handful of variables at work here:
1) Ratio of spine-length to clip-length
2) Angle of clip relative to spine
3) Angle of blade to spine (how much the blade seems to be 'reaching down' from the spine)
4) Size of the 'belly' of the blade (physical size and the degree to which it's curved)
5) The angle at which the clip and the edge meet

It might be silly to put so much thought into the aesthetics of the blade's shape, but it's interesting to me, how much these factors can change my perception of the knife. The trapper and peanut seem fragile and needle-like (muskrat and toothpick blades even more so, but I don't have any of those), where the Buck on the right seems almost comically blunt even though, if you look carefully, it's got a narrower point than a lot of the blades in the middle of the picture.

My favorite changes (that's half the fun of having a collection, right?) but with them all laid out side-by-side like this, I'm struck by how much I like the GEC and the Kabar -- they balance out rather well, I think. How about you? Do you have a favorite clip point whose lines are just-so, or do you tend to pick your favorites more from the handle end of things and leave the blade to distinguish itself only by how well it does its job?

--Mark

~ P.

 

[Ryouchijtx]

I love this. Wow.

Thanks, it's a new favourite of mine, birthday knife!

A clip point blade is my default favorite, remaining a mainstay on what springs to mind first I hear or think about a "jack knife"-- which was the precursor to ever hearing refer to a folding, traditional knife by any other moniker.

A picture of some of mine...




~ P.

I'm enjoying this thread already P , thanks for the redirection. That Sawcut TC, swoon xD

 

[jprime84]

 

[jc57]

Clip point:

 

[jprime84]

Took one of my 3 together

 

[Modoc ED]

What was wrong with the other clip point thread? It was a pretty good one. Oh well, here's one for you.

and here it is after it had been used a bit

 

[pertinux]

That Sawcut TC, swoon xD

Yup! I relish the variety within my selection collection, but the saw-cut Antique Amber is pretty much The One:

~ P.

 

[Will Power]

I like them, but I also like Spear, Drop-Point, Sheepfoot, Wharncliffe....such is the temptations of Traditionals

Here's a recent pic of 'Old Swoopy', A Tidioute 15 in Ivory Smooth Bone

 

[Modoc ED]

Here's another one.

and here it is after it had been used a bit

 

[Modoc ED]

Except for the Sod Buster Jr, here are even more clip points

and except for the Congress here are even more clip points

More GECs

 

[MT Damascus]

Tony Bose

Tom Ploppert

Doc Hagen

Joel Chamblin

Mike Zscherny

 

[pertinux]

Speaking of which, this Case barlow sports a 'regular' clip blade, or at least, the Case preferred shape for this pattern...

... with something of an anomaly, the forward nick. Most Case barlows [that I have seen] are designed with the pen secondary behind the main. [Note the Case barlows in Ed's picture above, the fourth and seventh knives from the left, and note the differences. I believe the first barlow is more 'typical' of Case's offerings in this pattern.]

This one has the secondary in front of the main, with the main's nick placed forward to render its nick accessible (and provide lovely purchase and leverage-- I'm a big fan of deep-set forward nicks such as these!).

Another Case clip point:

Another yet another (Case Mini Copperhead, clip main), in a favorite photo of all:

~ P.

 

[draggat]

Some really great knives in this thread!

P - you always speak so eloquently and have stellar choices in knives. So does your cat apparently! :thumbup:

Here's my contribution. Sorry, I'm too lazy at the moment to drag all of my clip points out!

 

[mrknife]

here's some


















I like clip points a lot

 

[Modoc ED]

Speaking of which, this Case barlow sports a 'regular' clip blade, or at least, the Case preferred shape for this pattern...

... with something of an anomaly, the forward nick. Most Case barlows [that I have seen] are designed with the pen secondary behind the main. [Note the Case barlows in Ed's picture above, the fourth and seventh knives from the left, and note the differences. I believe the first barlow is more 'typical' of Case's offerings in this pattern.]

This one has the secondary in front of the main, with the main's nick placed forward to render its nick accessible (and provide lovely purchase and leverage-- I'm a big fan of deep-set forward nicks such as these!).

~ P.

The second group picture of Cases knives I posted is an older picture and I must say with some embarrassment that the seventh knife from the left is no longer mine. It is a knife I gifted to Sarah some time ago. Sarah - I'm so sorry for posting a picture of your knife without giving you due credit for owning it!!!! All other knives posted in this thread are mine.

Sarah is correct. The Barlow with the forward nail nick in the clip blade is somewhat rare. The knife itself is from the 1940 to 1964 time frame and as Sarah was into collecting older barlows at the time I gifted it to her. It was near mint and right up her alley.

As are most all Barlows, they are great little knives regardless of manufacturer.