Sharpened "False Edge"?

[Brigadier]

If a knife maker sharpens a "false edge", isn't it no longer a "false" edge? Seems to me, it is now a double edged blade, which is illegal in my state[WA]. So why don't they just call it a double edged blade?

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Brigadier
Beretta 92 FS nut and Wave-aholic
"And for this cause God shall send them stong delusion,that they should believe a lie;" 2 Thessalonians 2:11

 

[Gollnick]

Technically speaking, if a knife has an unsharpened suggestion of an edge on the spine, that is called a "swedge." If the spine of a blade is shapened along the full length then it's not a spine at all and the blade becomes "double-edged." If the spine of a blade is sharpened from the tip part of the way back, THAT is called a "false edge". A "false edge" IS sharpened.

Sorry to be pedantic.


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Chuck
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[This message has been edited by Gollnick (edited 12-21-2000).]

 

[Boriqua]

Ill add my 2cents
The false edge is so called because it is not the primary edge. Seems obvious but that is the big difference between it and say a dagger where it should be impossible to tell the difference. Secondly .... the police will still call a false edge a double edge and be enjoying your nifty custom

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Alex

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[Revvie]

All I can tell you is that every K-Bar I carried became very sharp over that "false" edge.. and there was more that one CO who was not sure it was legal - but then grenades caused a world of hurt too!

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