Ya forgot spear point and clip point...

- Bill T.
- Who long ago went off on a knife collecting thing for a few years, then in
a fit of temporary insanity sold the whole assortment at a garage sale to
de-clutterify; then almost immediately regretted it...

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From: oldtools-bounces@r...
[mailto:oldtools-bounces@r...] On Behalf Of scott
grandstaff
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:45 AM
To: porch
Subject: Re: [OldTools] marking knives

> 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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