Useful Glossary of folding knife terms

[RayseM]

I stumbleoogled across these few pages while studying folding knife anatomy and thought it would be a useful post. Certainly I did not know most of these terms or understand them correctly. There might be room for interpretation but then we can just have fun discussing this variety of lingo. OK? OK.

Ray

• EDIT - this kink has been removed for some reason??? From AG Russell

• From another site that otherwise does not compel me, but this article - I think - was well written and informative - POCKET KNIVES TYPES

Yes, there is some non traditional folder info in the 2nd link but in context, it's all part of knowing what we are talking about - Mods can delete if preferred. OK by me - Ray

 

[abcdef]

AOM has lots of good stuff.

 

[afishhunter]

A few errors and omissions in the second.
For example: The standard blade combination on a canoe is a spear point and pen blade. Not a drop point and pen blade.
In the "blade types" he does not even mention the spear point.
A slipjoint (and friction folder, for that matter) are not as he claims a "light duty" only tool. (quote) "While this set-up worked for light knife work, the chances of the blade slipping and folding back in on one’s fingers increased as the work became heavier." (end quote) is simply not true.
Using a knife properly forces the blade open. Our ancestors used their "peasant knife" (friction folders like the Opinel without a lock ring or a Svord) or slipjoint a lot harder than we do today. They were not chopping off their fingers (or portions thereof) when doing heavy cutting.
Note that they also used the proper tools for the job. They did not use a knife for cutting/splitting heavy bones of critters, or for chopping or splitting wood; those were a job for an axe or hatchet, adding a wedge (which could be a piece of wood, it did not have to be metal) for the latter.

 

[waverave]

GEC has a bit of a dictionary as well.