Since the forging of the first knife, the proverbial “tip of the blade” has since held many shapes. These are too numerous to list and, in fact, many have been lost to antiquity. Over millennia, knife-blade styles and designs have undergone thorough development and beta-testing phases eliminating, by trial and error, those that were proven non-functional or less-than-optimal performance (i.g. too thin, too long, too short, etc.) What is available to us here in the 21st century has been refined, based on functionality, to a relatively common set of knife industry design standards. Design is based squarely on function. The first question you should ask when looking to buy a knife is…Read More
