Everyday I wake up and decide what knife to carry that day. Personally, I own multiple knives in every blade shape. Hopefully this gives you a better understanding of the terminology when it comes to some of the more common blades that are on the market. On one hand they are great for utility tasks but on the other you lose some of that valuable space where a big belly could be. Many people are torn when it comes to getting a knife with or without serrations. They’re great for utility tasks like cutting rope, slicing cardboard, and opening boxes. The serrations don’t slice through objects like a plain edge, rather in a way they tear it apart. When using the serrations you’ll cut much quicker than you would if you had a normal blade. The little points and small concaved edges of serrations make them cutting machines. Won't happen again.Serrations- Those little scallops that you see at the bottom of a blade aren’t there to make the knife look cool, they actually serve a purpose. Gave me something to do for the last few hours.
Like the wiki passage says it's confusing. Feel like we should be having a break dance fight. I guess it's an old school versus new school thing. Now it's just used to describe a small blade, not a knife for sharpening a quill. Heck the term pen knife doesn't even mean what it use to. Times and terminology change, the old becomes antiquated. Look at modern catalogs, with modern knives. Many modern manufacturers will offer the same knife design with either a drop point or spear point (or clip point, etc)īut drop point being drop point and spear point being what I describe as symmetrical tipped blade. With that said the term "drop point" seems to be the successor to "spear point". Their 2013 catalog could mirror their 1913 catalog. I actually looked at some newer catalogs and to this very day some manufactures will still use "spear point" to describe a blade similar in shape to drop points.Ĭase knives in fact uses the term spear point and not drop point.īut.big butt they have no modern designs. Considering the original SAK was developed for use by soldiers in the field, the more rugged spear point seems the obvious main blade choice. The trade-off between the spear and clip is that the more acute point of the clip, while arguably an advantage for fine detail work, puts a smaller cross-sectional area of steel directly behind the point, thus making the clip (all other things being equal) more prone to breakage than the spear. Both of these shapes feature a bit of belly while still maintaining a usable point. Getting back to the original question of why SAK main blades are spear points, the spear point is (with the possible exception of the clip point) probably the most popular and useful shape for a pocket knife main/general utility blade, and has been for a couple hundred years. The convex spine and edge with point being essentially in line with the center line of the blade make it so. I have to agree with Karl that the style of the main SAK blade is correctly called a spear. Maybe another manufacture called it something else. May also have to do with marketing as well. "A spear point blade is a symmetrically-shaped blade with a point aligned with the centerline of the blade's long axis." Multiple sources, all sources (lets be honest Wiki is not the end all of sources it was just best described their) agreed on this one point at least. The term spear point is occasionally and confusingly used to describe small single-edged blades without a central spine, such as that of the pen knife The spear point is one of the stronger blade point designs in terms of penetration stress, and is found on many thrusting knives such as the dagger. True spear-point blades are double-edged with a central spine, like a dagger or spear head. Swiss army pocket knives often have drop-points on their larger blades.Ī spear point blade is a symmetrically-shaped blade with a point aligned with the centerline of the blade's long axis. It handles much like the clip-point, though with a stronger point less suitable for piercing. A drop point blade has a convex curve of the back towards the point.
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