What's your favorite blade style? Why?

So many blade shapes, so little time to play with them. ;)

My favorite is the clip point. It's just the best of all worlds. It's got belly where it needs it, and an awesome tip. The drop point is also good; stronger tip but less useful point. For urban use, I dig the wharncliffe. The wharncliffe also happens to be the champion of whittling blades, next to the sheepsfoot.
 
I'll vote for a clip point because of it's versatility, through a good spear point can also be nice.
But hey, I like em all :)
 
I have always preferred straight clip points ( as opposed to deep Bowie clips), but recently I have become enamored with the shape of my Mini-Griptilian. Benchmade calls it a "geneticaly modfied sheepsfoot", but I tend to think of it as more of a spear point than a sheepsfoot.

Whatever you want to call it, this shape works great. IT has a nice needle point that gradually becomes a wide slicing blade. Tough to describe but it works really well.
 
I like the clip point on my Carson model 4. I need a tip that can slice things on the ground or a table, and still have a usable belly.
 
Geez, looks like the clip point is a favorite. Don't want to sound like a drone who follows eveyone but my main use knife is a clip point:rolleyes: My favorite looking though is a drop point with a small recurve, I don't have one(yet) so I don't know how it performs.

Thanks for the responses, keep'em coming:D
 
My fav blade for looks is a tanto...Just looks POWERFUL. But when I need a blade to really use, a shallow clip point or spear point is my favorite. And I have to agree that the griptillian is nice.

Ragards,

Steve C.
 
My favorite blade shape, both aesthetically and functionally, is the drop-point recurve. The drop-point represents a good compromise between tip penetration and strength. The front of the recurve provides an extended belly for slashes and push cuts. The center of the blade can act like a hawkbill. And starting at the rear of the recurve gives you an ideal edge for pull cuts. There is nothing more versatile. :D

--Bob Q
 
I'll log a vote for the wharncliffe. Easy to sharpen, helluva slicer, and great whittler. Modify 'em a bit with a point and they stab well, too. As far as looks go, I think it looks mean as hell. Sort of a more usable hawkbill...

Recurves come in second, for the same reasons bquinlan pointed out.

Zero
 
Out of all my knives the best Blade design has to be my Buck PCKS 110, that clip point is awesome.
 
I like most versions of the tanto blade style... Good tip strength, flat cutting edge (I don't do too much skinning) for an EDC, it does me well... I like the tip geometry, as I do a lot of fine cutting on packages, and need the ability to cut in tight small curves. The only better at these things that I currently own is the blade on my Spyderco Calypso Jr, I don'r know what you would call this blade style... more of a real sharp triangle than anything else I can think of...


-Dave
 
That's like askin' me which finger is my favorite. I can't really decide that's why on average I carry 4 or 5 different knives. A different style, and shaped blade for each job. A modified spear for general cutting, a long california clip for eating, a wickedly pointy clip with lots of belly for defense, and a slip joint folder,(Congress) to give me a choice when locking strength, is not an issue.

The one I usually grab first is my BM730 Ares, just cause it's in my right front pocket, I like the shape the most because it gives me plenty of belly for slicin', which is probably the bulk of the cutting that I do, although it's not unheard of for me to have two blades out at the same time. Agood example is working on cars in the bone yard, a clip with a serrated edge for cutting hoses and belts, and a warncliff for scrapin' gaskets.

With so many different knives I don't have to decide I just reach for the one that's best suited fo the job.:D
 
All I know is that I didn't like sharpening some commercial Tantos.... Altering the edge angle wasn't a good idea.
I've used spearpoint and some "modified" clip point, and they are fine with me.
 
Originally posted by fishbulb
I have always preferred straight clip points ( as opposed to deep Bowie clips), but recently I have become enamored with the shape of my Mini-Griptilian. Benchmade calls it a "geneticaly modfied sheepsfoot", but I tend to think of it as more of a spear point than a sheepsfoot.

Whatever you want to call it, this shape works great. IT has a nice needle point that gradually becomes a wide slicing blade. Tough to describe but it works really well.
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i agree the modified sheepsfoot blade is nice, has a nice cutting belly and the point is sharp enough to pierce most things, best of all it's not a very obtrusive blade style
 
For me drop point for my utility needs, hawk bill blade or spear point for defense leaning more toward hawks. aaah!my Lagriffe.Very seldom do i carry folders i perfer small fixed blades for both needs.
 
Originally posted by calyth
All I know is that I didn't like sharpening some commercial Tantos.... Altering the edge angle wasn't a good idea.
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You have to remember tantos have a compound grind to them you really have to sharpen them like two seperate blades, in order to maintain the seperate grinds.
 
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