When is a wharncliffe no longer a Wharncliffe?

MTHall720

MTHall720

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The reason I ask such a basic question is I have never had a wharncliffe. Every time I Google images or get on Pinterest there are lots of things that I thought were either modified Wharnies or perhaps are something else which I don't know the name of.
To me they look miniature meat cleavers in a folder. I should have posted an image. Does anyone know what I mean?
 
My understanding is the edge is straight and the spine drops down near the tip in a gentle curve, leaving a definite point.
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I’m not sure what you were talking about so I went to Pinterest to see. Just searching Wharncliffe showed about 90% modern tactical style so called Wharncliffe knife and few of them had true straight blades with the gentle slope to the tip. Most did have very wide blades making them look like meat cleavers. I myself just started with Wharncliffe and Lambsfoot knives and are really starting to appreciate them, they are more useful than one would think of first. My favorite at this point for a couple of reasons, is a Case Mini Trapper single Wharncliffe blade, it’s a nice size, nice and thin and the blade stands proud so I can easily pinch the blade to open it and I like single bladed knives. As I have gotten older my hands, fingers and fingernails have gotten weaker and I have a hard time opening some knives with just the nail nicks. If you are into the traditional knives a Wharncliffe blade is very nice.
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I say if the edge is not straight it cannot be a warncliffe or sheep's foot, no matter what anyone else says.
It's not a modified warncliffe or sheep's foot it's something else entirely.

Luckily we don't have this too much in traditional folders ( besides poorly ground blades on cheap junky stockman ) but it's everywhere In the modern realm.
 
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