Next trending blade shape

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when I was about 15-20 years younger I remember the vast majority of pocket knives were available in drop point or clip point and if you were feeling crazy tantos were just becoming a "thing"

This is just my opinion but Nowadays it's seems that the trending blade styles are wharncliffe and sheepsfoot.
A slight sheeps foot I like. Like in the spyderco police4.
But other than that I really don't like the trend too much.

I'd much rather see a up-swept blade style trend, but for now that style seems reserved for Borka/Persian specialty blades and fillet knives but hasnt really made it into main stream edc category.

With up-swept my wrist doesn't have to contort at weird angles when cutting and it just seems like a better edc choice.
I'm hoping it becomes the next trend.

What do you think the next trending blade shape/style will be???
 
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"Trending" o_O
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FortyTwoBlades said:
Cleaver-ish blade shapes seem to be the current emerging trend, even though they don't make sense compared to other shapes for most contexts of use.
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Never understood the clever style knives. They don't seem that functional and they just look weird, IMO. And they take up a ton of pocket space. In looking through my collection, most of my knives are pretty low profile when closed and open.
 
Yeah I even saw a youtube video, didn't watch it, titled "Why you should get a cleaver blade" or something to that effect. I can only thing of one reason because you want one and like the looks. For a folding pocket knife I can't really see any purpose it can serve that isn't better suited to a different blade shape or one that can be handled without issue by a more versatile blade shape.
 
The whole point of a cleaver shape is to maximize mass behind the edge without making it thicker than is necessary to support the appleseed bone-cleaving edge so it doesn't need thinning as you grind it back over time. Which makes zero sense for a pocket knife or small fixed blade. With small fixed blades I could see it being used for the sake of knuckle clearance in use, but it often isn't made a particularly strong feature on the trending designs. I dunno'. It's weird to me, but I guess that's what's selling right now.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
The whole point of a cleaver shape is to maximize mass behind the edge without making it thicker than is necessary to support the appleseed bone-cleaving edge so it doesn't need thinning as you grind it back over time. Which makes zero sense for a pocket knife or small fixed blade. With small fixed blades I could see it being used for the sake of knuckle clearance in use, but it often isn't made a particularly strong feature on the trending designs. I dunno'. It's weird to me, but I guess that's what's selling right now.
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De gustibus non est disputandum.
 
007Airman said:
Deep belly drop point tanto needs to trend. Wait never mind I prefer to be one of few that has one.
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I like that style as well.
I also like The hellhound style from Microtech. Minus all the drilled holes and cutouts in the blade
 
There are so many companies and makers right now that I don’t even know how you would determine a trend. Then again, I don’t use snapstagram.

Cleavers were mentioned already, but I think that has already lost all it’s momentum by now and is all but dead.

I think the most notable current trend is making classic-style pocket knives with modern features and/or materials. I’m certainly seeing a lot more slipjoints and clipless knives made with CF/Ti/particle metallurgy steels.
 
Apart from disliking the word ‘trending’, although I see its utility, the drop-point will always be ‘on trend’, as will the clip. There are rules of aesthetics as well as rules of utility. Those two won’t ever go out of fashion. Most makers are left with micro decisions.
 
"I think the most notable current trend is making classic-style pocket knives with modern features and/or materials. I’m certainly seeing a lot more slipjoints and clipless knives made with CF/Ti/particle metallurgy steels"

I saw that too. But with a lot of the modern slip joints being priced as much as modern locking knives...
Idk how long that trend will last.
 
Comeuppance said:
Cleavers were mentioned already, but I think that has already lost all it’s momentum by now and is all but dead.
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I don't know, man. I feel (without doing an actual count) like I saw a bunch of them announced at Shot. Particularly small ones.

Which are particularly stupid.

I absolutely adore when a knife manages to perfectly mate style and substance. To me, that is the apex of the knifemakers art. I absolutely despise when style trumps substance.
 
I’ve never used one but I always thought the cleaver shape would be good for super short knives for light edc. Something the size of the boker gnome where you only have a couple fingers on it.
 
Comeuppance said:
There are so many companies and makers right now that I don’t even know how you would determine a trend. Then again, I don’t use snapstagram.

Cleavers were mentioned already, but I think that has already lost all it’s momentum by now and is all but dead.

I think the most notable current trend is making classic-style pocket knives with modern features and/or materials. I’m certainly seeing a lot more slipjoints and clipless knives made with CF/Ti/particle metallurgy steels.
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I would like to see more traditional "styles" knives with pocket clips. I love me some traditional slipjoints but don't carry them due to lack of a pocket clip. That's just me though.
 
SpySmasher said:
I don't know, man. I feel (without doing an actual count) like I saw a bunch of them announced at Shot. Particularly small ones.

Which are particularly stupid.

I absolutely adore when a knife manages to perfectly mate style and substance. To me, that is the apex of the knifemakers art. I absolutely despise when style trumps substance.
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I both agree and disagree with it being "dead already". By the time production companies catch a trend, that's like the peak of the wave. I had predicted about 3 years ago that cleavers (actual cleavers--choppy bois) were going to be a big thing, and sure enough that ended up being a thing. Then for some reason people tried doing that in folders, too, and it caught. Over the next 1-2 years it'll taper off, but it's definitely here at the moment. And I totally agree regarding style and substance vs. style over substance. Most of what's come out for the past several years has been the latter, sadly.
 
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