One of the more interesting blade styles is the Hawkbill blade. They have an old history and are used in everything from gardening to combat and personal protection. Of course, one of the more famous designs is the karambit. This time out we avoided ringed karambits, as they’re in a category all their own. Steve Tarani and others who specialize in karambits and the arts in which they’re used maintain that it’s the curved blade, even more so than the ring, that makes a knife a karambit.
Not popular as a chopper like a machete or Kukri, the Hawkbill blade excels at slicing and cutting. These knives have a pointed tip but typically aren’t used for stabbing like a dagger. Hawkbill knife blades in the West were most commonly fixed blades and slipjoints used for gardening and utilitarian chores such as cutting carpet or linoleum. The design would evolve over time, although we chose an example of the utility type knife as well.
Aside from self-defense or pruning, the Hawkbill excels at
