> http://rhpwood.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/tools-marking-knives/

 Hey Bob Nice knife. If you get tired of trying to explain the blade
 shape in longer words? Just tell 'em it's a sheepsfoot blade. I use a
 sheepsfoot roughly 1/2 the time in everything I do.

  When you can raise up a handle high approaching verticle, a spear
  point or diamond point is a good blade, but when you are dealing with
  a lower handle angle than that to reach in, sheepsfoot does the trick.
  If you have to go really low angle, hawksbill. Slight downward curve.

 They made up names for blade shapes roughly when they invented language
 :-) It's possible to come up with a new blade shape people haven't
 thought of yet, but I never have. Whatever I think up, that I think is
 new? I can always go back and look at the old charts and, sure enough,
 it's close enough to one of the established shapes to call it that,
 everytime. yours, Scott

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