New buck nighthawk 652 bravo

Wolfjohn

Wolfjohn

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Just ordered one of these from Knife Center:cool:, they came available on September 3rd. This will make a great addition to my Nighthawk collection and best of all....USA made of course.
 

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Wolf,

congrats on continuing your collection:thumbup: The nighthawks are cool. I just cant get into the tanto blades.
 
I have the 650, 651, 653 and 655 and I think I like the blade on the 653 better.
 
Well...I got the Buck Bravo today...wow....what a grind!! I love it!

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So, what is the intended purpose of that blade design? It looks far too thick to be a slicer of any kind: Is it just a stabber?
 
:cool:...I'm not into the "tactical" type of knives nor do I know anything at all about the Besh Wedge put out by Buck. To answer your query I did about 20 seconds of digging and came up with this on Brent Beshara...the inventor of the geometry you speak of:

Birth of the BESH Wedge™

“BESH Wedge™Technology was born when Brent Beshara was working on a modern interpretation of a classic military dagger. Because grind symmetry is so important to the proper look of a dagger, it is not unusual for makers to grind the opposing (diagonally opposite) bevels to establish the initial look of the knife. They would then grind the remaining two opposing bevels to define the centerline and the final lines of the blade. In Beshara’s case, after grinding the first two bevels of the blade, he took a close look at the way the lines began to converge at the tip and realized that they began to shape a chisel edge almost like the sharpened tip of a flat screwdriver. Fascinated with the potential of this unique edge geometry, he ground the bevels deeper until he had a dagger with two diagonally opposite chisel-edged bevels. The two sharpened edges of these bevels met at the tip of the blade in a third edge that appeared to have substantially more strength and structure than a traditional dagger point. It also produced one of the most distinctive “looks” of any knife I’ve ever seen.”

“What he found was that his new design not only penetrated amazingly well, it eliminated the main shortcoming of traditional dagger designs: a fragile and easily broken point. With that, the XSF-1 was born.”
 
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