What is the correct name for this kind of blade?

[Rhinoknives1]

Just for clarification sake, its a clip point bowie? and there are different types of clip points, so a turkish clip point bowie? or spanish clip point?

Are there drop point bowies? Or are most bowies clip point?

The Seales Bowie is more of a drop point than the Clip Bowie shown..

 

[marcinek]

Just for clarification sake, its a clip point bowie? and there are different types of clip points, so a turkish clip point bowie? or spanish clip point?

Are there drop point bowies? Or are most bowies clip point?

Since no one had seen Bowies original knife, from Bowie's time to today, pretty much any large knife has been called a Bowie.

Two of the candidates for the sandbar knife, the Forrest Knife and the Searles knife looked pretty muck like a punal or like the chef's knife you have in your kitchen. Descriptions of it from the time concur, saying it was straight backed without a guard.

The Iron Mistress clip point thing with the brass spine most of us think of when we think "Bowie" is a modern fiction, cooked up by the makers of the 1955 movie The Iron Mistress and also by this guy Raymond Thorpe, who was a bit loopy.

 

[Hickory n steel]

I would tend to call this a long clip, but that's not really an official term I don't think.

 

[Henry Beige]

From what I have seen in my lifetime a trailing point has the actual point of the blade higher than the spine. I’ve seen some knives described as trailing points and even without the point being higher than the spine it was at least close and definitely higher than center.

First time I have heard that. I would have called it a trailing point because of the way it turns up. If there is more to it, I am glad to be educated. Taken under advisement.

 

[eveled]

@slyraven & M marcinek The Bowie knife is a vague definition. History tells us it is one thing fiction told us something else. What one person calls a Bowie I can guarantee someone else will balk at. Bowie’s are in the eye of the beholder. I don’t consider a USMC KA-BAR to be a Bowie the blade us too narrow for its length. The proportions are off.

The point I was trying to make that Bowie describes the whole knife not the blade shape. So to answer the OP’s question. It is not a Bowie shaped blade. It is aBowie knife.

 

[afishhunter]

The blade looks (long) "clip point" and the knife over-all "Bowie", to my six ancient vintage antique eyes. (I wear bifocals)

 

[tltt]

Clip point?
Bowie?
Trailing point?
Turkish clip point?

Clip point.

Bowie isn't a proper name for a blade style, it's usually used by people to indicate a clip point.

Trailing Point varies, it can be mild like a Cold Steel Outdoorsman or the Hibben Browning models - ( http://www.hibbenknives.com/portals/0/Hibben Knives/Timeline knives/s-l16002.jpg ) , to almost upswept skinnerish depending on the maker.

Turkish clip is an odd one, in America, it looks nothing like the French or European styles. You almost never see it named that way on American sporting cutlery, but it was sometimes used by carving set manufacturers. The more common name for the European style Turkish clip here in the States was the whimsical "Scrimtar" style.

Our Turkish Clip was most commonly seen on Muskrat folders.

A California Clip is a narrower style clip point with a long clip. A common style of these are seen on Toothpick and Fishing knives.

California and Turkish clips can sometimes have a bit of recurve action in there too -

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[GatorFlash1]

Bowie is my best guess.

 

[bearfacedkiller]

A clip point is a type of blade and a Bowie is a type of knife. That is both.

A trailing point, like other already said, has the point above the spine.

I always figured a Turkish clip was when the clip was more than half of the blade but I am not sure if that is correct.

 

[22-rimfire]

I vote clip point blade style, but it's a bowie knife.

I have always been a little confused as to what constitutes a trailing point blade. For example, people call the BK-15 a trailing point. The point is just above the spine which makes it a trailing point and one of my favorite general purpose woods knife blade shapes.

Drop point.... point just below the spine, I guess? People also confuse the blade "grind" with the blade shape.

 

[george65]

JMO, but the "correct" name is whatever the maker says it is.
different manufacturers often call the same blade shape different names
I'd just call it a clip and be done with it.

 

[22-rimfire]

JMO, but the "correct" name is whatever the maker says it is.
different manufacturers often call the same blade shape different names
I'd just call it a clip and be done with it.

That may be true about the maker naming a blade shape, but that doesn't make it correct terminology.