sal wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:53 pm.......
The first advantage is that the cutting edge is consistent in it's force against the material being cut from the heel to the tip. As opposed to a blade shape with a "belly" that reduced the force (angle of attack) that changes towards the tip. Cutting materials like rope, the straight edge will prevent the rope from "rolling" off the blade.
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Your sheepscliffe looks just about perfect to me. The more blunt tip on the sheepsfoot Caribbean was what stopped me from getting one. But the lower pointy tip is the feature I find most useful on both wharnie and hawkbill blades.Evil D wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:26 amBig fan of wharnies here, and the Yojimbo 2 was definitely a part of that but also just the basic blade shapes of the Delica, Manix 2 and some others that have a shallow belly and a low blade tip. The low blade tip is really more important to me than the amount of belly because it provides much better ergonomics for cutting with the tip, and in a slashing motion (such as you'd use in self defense) a low blade tip is going to work the same as a wharnies in how it transfers the power all the way through the cutting motion.
What i really prefer is something in the middle. I like how most sheepsfoot blades have just a wee bit of belly, and then I reprofile the spine down to have more of a wharnie point. I call it a sheepscliffe. It does everything a wharnie can do but having that little bit of belly makes it a bit more versatile. I think blade angle and low blade tip are more important than having a totally straight cutting edge.
If you look at the tip of my Caribbean, it's a bit lower than the centerline of the grip and is angled down a bit. That's going to make it slash even more aggressively than a wharnie.
The amount of belly isn't much but it does make a difference when you're making cuts flat against a surface.
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