What is your blade type preference?

[Optimus Prime]

Well what is it and why???

Spear Point? Drop Point? Tanto? Another of some sort......

5KNIVES's blade length thread started to make me think and got my curiosity up, I would like to know what is every ones preference and why.

[LHS]

I've always been fond of a Bowie-style blade with a sharpened false edge. I use the back edge of my SpecPlus KA-BAR clone for lots of little things that I don't want dulling my primary cutting edge. However, I do want enough unsharpened spine for hammering through logs or fine manipulation.

[5KNIVES]

Well once upon a time I knew the name for this shape, but I cant remember it now. some kind of butcher knife I guess.

If you go to;

http://www.northernrifleman.com/russellknives.htm

(Sorry, I don't have a digital camera yet, and wouldnt know how to post a pic here if I did.)

They call it a Fish knife, the one with the walnut handles. Texas knife supply and others call it a camp knife. The blade is 5 inches long.

Mine is identical to the one pictured, and I did get it from a Salmon Cannery in Alaska about 40 years ago. As best I can recall it cost me $4.00 then.
Takes a good razor edge, and the point is enough to use for removing splinters and things like that.

Also use my old Ka-Bar exactly like LHS, and the false edge sharpened for exactly the same reason. Only difference is me and a file and couple glasses of Brandy took the curve out of the false edge and left it straight, this lengthened the edge and dropped the point a bit also, then I re-profiled the false edge and sharpened to so something more like an axe edge than a knife edge.

I'll be very interested in following this thread also.

[Optimus Prime]

5KNIVES , from reading your signature line I gather that you must be a Terry Gilliam fan. That, or you just like a good wad of snuff. :)

[Rew]

I like bowie type blades, again with a sharpened false edge, however I like the light curve in the Ka-bars false edge. Mine is set up with a shaving edge on both main and false edge. Whan I get back home I'll try to get a few pic's. ;)

[5KNIVES]

Optimus Prime,

Most perrceptive my friend. Been waiting for someone to figure it out. Terry Gilliam fan? But of course! What intelligent and clear thinking person could be otherwise? And the Dead Parrot sketch followed by the Lumberjack Song is still the funniest TV Comedy bit ever done!

Even though I live in Wisconsin, where a wad of Copenhagen is a requirement for admittance to the low dives, Deer Camps and most all non-sissy entertainments I frequent. I'm known as something of an eccentric. I dont "dip" or use the moist oral snuff's, I use nasal snuffs (Sniffed, not snorted, you have been warned).

Began the habit about 25 years ago when the airlines started getting silly about smoking, and I did have to fly weekly. I found out that I preferred snuff to smoking, packed up my beloved meerschaums. And I'm proud to say that today, the use of fine tobacco snuff is my most obvious filthy habit.

I was working as a main-frame consultant, and the anti-tobacco foolishness was just taking off. The benefit was I neednt leave my Terminal to get the Nicotine fix, and the Yuppies I worked with just thought. "WOW, KEWL, The old dude snorts dope right on the job and gets away with it!"

The regular use of fine dry powdered tobacco snuff has a long history, and is enjoying a resurgance in the last couple of years in the U.S

[Optimus Prime]

My greatest creature comforts are my pipe and some fine pureos..........:cigarsmkg

BTW, Time Bandits is one of my all time favs! :D

[LHS]

I'm partial to a cigar or pipe every now and again, though I had a hell of a time convincing the campus police that I was smoking perfectly legal tobacco, rather than dope. As if the dumb fuckers couldn't smell the difference :rolleyes:

[HDR]

Rew
Cut with the backstroke. :D

[Rew]

HDR, thats the way I was taught, the back stroke can be a wicked supprise. ;)

BTW: this was not military training.:D

[ponder]

I prefer a spear point or clip point blade. I feel they are the most useful for general use.:)

[RedDevil]

I've had my eye on this one and hope to buy it after I sell enough plasma. I like the double-edged blades that can be used reverse grip or forward grip.

http://store4.yimg.com/I/knifeart_1792_10539482

[blobman]

as long as it says cold steel on it its good as gold

[HDR]

Originally posted by Rew
BTW: this was not military training.:D

Are you sure about that? ;)


ponder
Tanto can piece a car door. :eek: ;)

[LHS]

Originally posted by HDR
Are you sure about that? ;)


ponder
Tanto can piece a car door. :eek: ;)

I can ram a KA-BAR through a car door too. It's gonna dull the living shit out of it, but I bet the Cold Steel knife wasn't exactly shaving-sharp afterwards either. Cold Steel makes some damn fine blades, and I own more than one of them ;) But they're not invincible, and they like to toot their own horn a lot. Plus, I think their folders are butt-fugly.

[ponder]

HDR
I agree with your point, but cense the police told me that i had to stop stabing people's car doors....:D

LHS
They are not butt-fugly, they are work's of art.:)

[HDR]

Any fixed blade worth carrying can.

I only have one CS, their furniture ain't the prettiest.. But for a carry edge, my voyager is fine..

ponder,
Then quit getting caught.

[HDR]

Originally posted by LHS
I can ram a KA-BAR through a car door too. It's gonna dull the living shit out of it, but I bet the Cold Steel knife wasn't exactly shaving-sharp afterwards either. Cold Steel makes some damn fine blades, and I own more than one of them ;) But they're not invincible, and they like to toot their own horn a lot. Plus, I think their folders are butt-fugly.

As said, any blade worth carrying can and I didn't mean that exactly. I've read the tanto is either one of the few or only points designed to pierce armor.

So I tried it.

BTW, it wasn't a CS edge..