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A glossary detailing specialist terminology for describing the construction and classification of knives.

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Jimping is the cutting of grooves or serrations in the grip of a knife to increase traction. Popular areas for the application of jimping include the concave thumb rest, seen on many modern knives, ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

The cutting edge of the knife, usually created by bevelling a flat piece of metal. The term 'blade' may also refer to the extension of the knife past the handle, hilt or fingerguard (depending on the ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

An unsharpened, and indented, section of the blade on a knife to allow a more positive grip further along the tool itself. Mainly associated with knives whose applications require a high degree of ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

'Scales', or 'knife scales', is the term used to deonote the thin, shaped pieces of wood, plastic, or other material that are pinned or otherwise attached to either side of the knife's tang to form ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

The term used to describe a decorative temper line created by a specific heat treatment process. The word itself is a loan word from Japanese, as most Japanese blades from even before the Heian Era ...

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The term used to describe a style of knife construction where the full flat of the blade tapers into the cutting edge, or secondary bevel, with a flat grind. This gives the advantages of a lighter ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

This term describes a blade shape pioneered in America during the late '70s where the cutting edge of the blade transfers to the knife point at a crisp angle between 30 and 70 degrees rather than a ...

Domain: Engineering; Category: Mechanical engineering

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