Sheepsfoot or Hawksbill?

[redsquid2]

Maybe it doesn't matter what you call it. I just think of it as a Hawksbill, with the edge hooking downward at the tip, but the package says Sheepsfoot. How do you differentiate?






Here is what I think of as a sheepsfoot:



And on this one, the edge actually rocks upward, but I still think of it as a sheepsfoot:

 

[nick21]

In my experience sheepsfoot blades don't have an inward curve, or hook. Hawkbill blades do.

I think the packaging is wrong

 

[Dr. Scott]

That is a hawkbill, almost certainly made in China and branded for Klein Tools. The packaging may have been done by someone who speaks poor English, or the marketing person at Klein just doesn't know knives.

The bottom knife isn't a sheepfoot, but I can't remember what you call it.

 

[Davidfs]

Benchmade calls the bottom one a modified sheepsfoot

 

[redsquid2]

In my experience sheepsfoot blades don't have an inward curve, or hook. Hawkbill blades do.

I think the packaging is wrong

Yeah. Googling around, it looks like somebody at Klein is misinformed. They have other knives labeled "sheepsfoot," that should be labeled "hawkbill."

 

[redsquid2]

It was a gift. Don't have it here at the office with me, but it is AUS8, according to the Klein Web page. I seem to remember a "Japan" stamp on it. Should be a decent one for cutting leather and lots of other stuff.

 

[atavist]

On board with everyone else on the hawksbill.
With the up rocker in.the lower blade I would just consider it a severe drop point.

 

[K.O.D.]

Maybe it doesn't matter what you call it. I just think of it as a Hawksbill, with the edge hooking downward at the tip, but the package says Sheepsfoot. How do you differentiate?



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Here is what I think of as a sheepsfoot:

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And on this one, the edge actually rocks upward, but I still think of it as a sheepsfoot:

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Top one is a hawksbill, middle a wharncliffe, bottom an insingo/modified wharncliffe.

I think of sheepsfoot as being the BM 940 blade, or the blade on my Kizer Ki423:

 

[eschwebach]

A sheep foot blade should have no belly, the cutting edge should be straight just like a wharncliffe. In my experience the BM 940 and the Kizer above are generally referred to as reverse tanto.

 

[nick21]

Spyderco Pingo is a great example of a sheepsfoot, imo

 

[atavist]

Top one is a hawksbill, middle a wharncliffe, bottom an insingo/modified wharncliffe.

I think of sheepsfoot as being the BM 940 blade, or the blade on my Kizer Ki423:

The blade on your kizer is a Spay point. As I understand it.

 

[Davidfs]

Well at least we are all on the same page...