Knife Terminology

There are many different types of knives, hunters, bowies, fighters, skinners, utility, etc. The one thing that most knives have in common are the terms used for the specific part of a knife.

Most of us are familiar with the blade, guard and handle of a knife. The illustrations following will be helpful in identifying some of the other knife parts.

Fixed Blade Hunter

Fixed Blade Hunter

 

Fixed Blade Bowie

Fixed Blade Bowie

 

Fighter
Fighter

Of course this does not give you all of the possible combinations but you get the idea.
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