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A glossary detailing specialist terminology for describing the construction and classification of knives.

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The bowie knife is an iconic knife design, popularised in part by its extensive use in the Vietnam war. The bowie blade shape is a distinctive one, the blade mostly straight until the point where the ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

A chisel grind is a bevel style where only one side of the material is bevelled, leaving the opposite side's blade edge in line with the spine and tang. It is a technique used to make serrated ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

An unsharpened, and indented, section of the blade on a knife to allow a more positive grip further along the tool itself. Mainly associated with knives whose applications require a high degree of ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

A clip-point is a type of knifepoint where the spine of the knife is cut in a concave arc to meet the cutting edge of the knife. This style of knifepoint is seen on most Bowie style knives as well as ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

A convex grind is the opposite to the hollow grind, the knife's cross section showing a slight convex bow to the bevel. Just as the hollow grind, the convex grind is also not especially popular, but ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

Detents are notch-groove partner systems to help keep a folding knife in the closed and/or open position. They are usually made using a ball bearing pressed into the lock bar that reciprocate with a ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

Drop-point describes a knife blade-shape where the spine of the knife is shaped so that is 'drops' to meet the upward curve of the blade, creating a more leaf shaped blade silhouette. The dipping of ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

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