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The term has seen a resurgence in the West since the 1980s as referring to a point style of modern tactical knives, designed for piercing or stabbing, though the style is not present on any traditional tantō. A Tanto knife may refer to an American style of blade based of the Japanese tantō, usually with a squared rather than curved tip.
The CQC-6 (Close Quarters Combat — Six) or Viper Six is a handmade tactical folding knife with a tantō blade manufactured by knifemaker Ernest Emerson.Although initially reported as the sixth design in an evolution of fighting knives and the first model in the lineup of Emerson's Specwar Custom Knives, Emerson later revealed that the knife was named for SEAL Team Six.
Tantō, a Japanese combat knife; Tanto, a type of tactical knife tip style or knives with said tip style. Daihatsu Tanto, a concept car based on the Daihatsu Move kei car; Kris Paronto (born 1971), known as Tanto
English: Several common and uncommon tanto profiles with cross sections at various key locations. The general blade shape is based on an approximately 25 cm long, 17 mm wide (near the tang), approximately straight hira style blade forged in the early 14th century. This common profile was chosen to allow for easy comparison between styles.
This knife is a variant of the santoku, but instead of the sheep's foot tip, it has a "k-tip", also called a "reverse tanto". [citation needed] Nakiri — 菜切 — (lit: "vegetable cutter"). The square tip makes the knife feel more robust and secure than the pointed tip of the santoku or gyuto, which allows it to cut dense products at the tip ...
Gassan school yoroi-doshi tanto. Signed "Yoshiteru", c. 1865, 0.5 in (13 mm) motogasane, (blade thickness) at the hamachi (the notch at the beginning of the cutting edge), 10 in (250 mm) nagasa (cutting edge), "ayasugi hada” which looks like a series of undulating rolling waves.
A folding Tanto designed for EDC Knives. 4" Tanto G10 scales, Titanium liners 8.2" 2007 CQC-16 A non-recurved Clip point Commander designed as a hunting/skinning knife. 4" Clip point G10 scales, Titanium liners 8.2" 2007 Horseman A scaled-down version of the CQC-8. 3.4" sabre profile G10 scales, Titanium liners 8.35" 2007 Mini CQC-15 A recurved ...
The defining characteristic was plunging either the tachi (longsword), wakizashi (shortsword) or tantō (knife) into the gut and slicing the abdomen horizontally. In the absence of a kaishakunin , the samurai would then remove the blade and stab himself in the throat, or fall onto the blade from a standing position with it positioned against ...