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Got all obsorbed in T.C.'s piece about recreating a knife. (Love knives, but I stay away from 'em - I'd have rooms stacked full of 'em and a cantankerous wife over it. Tuff to live in fear, ain't it?)

Anyhow, he mentions a 'clip point' blade. I know that means the shape on the end, but what I'm wondering is why the design: perhaps to keep from stabbing your other hand while butchering? I enjoy seeing all the different ways blades are designed . . . surely there are specific uses the designers had in mind. Shucks, my ol' yaller handled trapper (Case) - with which I laid my thumb open while skinning a deer this year - has two different kinds of blades.

Seems there are a bunch of designs. Pease made a 'sheep skinner' recently, which I assume means the blade favors the job of skinning sheep better than other blades. Anyone have knowledge of the reasons behind some of the designs?

Fiddlesticks


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Booshway
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Sure wish I know the "why" as well. I do know what I like however.
I carried a 5 1/2 inch "clip pointed" knife in the Army.
Just made from an old kitchen knife, a antler handled "drop point" hunting knife.
And I just love those "Green River style Butchers".
Andy


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Booshway
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A clip point aligns the point of the blade to the center of the thrust when built right i.e. the point thus lines up with a direct line through the grip allowing the best thrust - it was originally a design feature of a fighting knife and not a general purpose tool


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Thanks Grey Wolf. I would've never guessed it to be a stabbing type weapon.

Fiddlesticks


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