Is there a LINK on here (BF) that explains what some knife terms and words mean?
Did I miss it?! :)
I do not mean the brand name of the knife but some sort of OFFICIAL explanation like when some of us discuss single action revolvers, double action revolvers, semi automatic pistols, lever action and bolt action rifles or sail and power boats in our lives - past and present.
I looked at Wiki (NOT a good choice but better than nothing for a brief LOOK online.) and I read websites where some companies tell you about their knives with PICTURES too.
Examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipjoint
Some states and countries only ALLOW specific types of knives. Knife laws.
So when I read slip joint - I think that it means a FOLDING KNIFE but obviously - I am wrong. I would be ignorant in thinking that it only means a 'folding knife'.
My husband is not home now so I can't ask him.
I always said folding knife or a fixed blade knife. :eek:
Plus some of you call the handle of a knife something else, right?
And the material USED would be different on various knives and some of you call them 'scales'? So are ALL scales everything but WOOD or do they include wooden handles?
So when I explain the one Damascus custom blade that came out of Idaho but my husband bought it IN PERSON from a favorite knife maker at a show here in town and I said that I picked out a beautiful black walnut out of many walnut samples for it - am I saying it wrong my using the word HANDLE?!
The Damascus Blade was in a design called ICE JAM not Ice Breaker which I want to say and screw it up. RP Martin made it - Idaho. His friend from work who makes knives made the handle and leather sheath for it.
The one man from work will make another one using his own steel - metal and the handle will be in black walnut. Same black walnut like the other one and the WOOD matches our lever action rifles. The shape of the fixed blade may be a bit different - it will be smaller - a shorter blade and I may request a different shape to the blade. It will be for me. I have not made up my mind yet! I do not want a Damascus design on mine just a simple, good quality, old fashioned looking steel. I love my husband's latest, beautiful, custom made knife (Fixed blade.) but I want a simple, plainer design fixed blade knife with an almost identical handle. My blade will not be in stainless steel - not for this knife.
My husband would like one in maple and one in oak too.
I have to go back and LOOK at the knife makers HERE too. Some of them made some beautiful knives and I have to ask them about some fixed blade knives too.
Excuse my ignorance in some of these things.
So I guess that I asked more than one question too, eh?
My husband can rattle off the STEEL and so could my late husband even more than him.
I know that there are different types and QUALITIES of stainless steel and the same thing for NON SS blades.
Thank you and excuse my ignorance here.
Cate