The clip point is one of the more common knife blade shapes used as an EDC or hunting knife. These blades look like the forward third of the blade is “clipped” off—it can be straight or concave. Variants include the California clip, with a clip greatly extended in length, and the Turkish clip point with its extreme recurve.
On a clip-point knife, the spine of the blade begins at the hilt and continues to a point between one third to one fourth of the blade length. The blade’s spine then tapers in thickness in either a straight line or a curve to the knife’s point, which may be located above, below, or in line with the central axis of the blade. The thinned false edge of the clip may be sharpened to form a true second cutting edge. If the false edge is sharpened, it increases the knife’s effectiveness in piercing. Many production makers shy away from this due to knife laws in some jurisdictions regarding double-edged knives.
Today, the design itself is largely considered American and is associated with the Old West,
