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A slipjoint knife is one of the most ubiquitous types of pocketknives.A slipjoint knife consists of a handle with one or more folding blades. These blades are held in position by a strong "backspring" which biases them towards the open and closed position (that is the spring tries to hold the blade closed until it has been pulled past a 90 degree arc from the handle, when the spring force ...
Victorinox Soldier, a Camper or Scout pattern pocketknife: Canoe: The canoe knife is shaped somewhat like a native American canoe and typically has two drop-point blades. A canoe knife: Congress: The congress knife has a convex front with a straight or shallow concave back. It usually carries four blades. A congress knife: Cotton Sampler
Linerlock knives have been around since the late 19th century. The Cattaraugus liner locking patent, 825,093 was issued on July 3, 1906. After 1923 when the patent expired, it was used by other manufacturers such as in the common military and lineman's issue two-blade electrician’s knife; the Camillus TL-29 for the locking screwdriver-stripper blade, until 2007 when the Camillus Cutlery ...
Used as a fighting knife, the navaja typically featured a blade length of 400 mm (15 inches) or longer, [1] [26] and knives with 300 mm (12-inch) to 500 mm (19-inch) blades were common. [26] The large-bladed fighting navaja or santólio was eventually refined into a pattern named the navaja sevillana, after the region in which it saw much use. [1]
A Bowie knife of pattern-welded steel. A knife (pl.: knives; from Old Norse knifr 'knife, dirk' [1]) is a tool or weapon with a cutting edge or blade, usually attached to a handle or hilt. One of the earliest tools used by humanity, knives appeared at least 2.5 million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools.
A modern laguiole folding knife of classic form with the blade open; the wooden grip scale shows the typical cross made of metal pins An early twentieth-century laguiole knife with a corkscrew, the carved ivory handle in the form of a nude woman The 'bee' or 'fly' on the end of the backspring of laguiole knives Modern Laguiole knife, with a corkscrew
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The corner of a chisel, knife, or gouge bevel which meets the back of the blade and polishes the cut. holdfast. Also called a hold down. A hold-down iron fitting into a hole in a bench and tightened or loosened by hammer taps. hollow grind A concave bevel on a chisel, gouge, or knife.