104 terms from real knife spec sheets, defined the way they are actually used by the people who write them. No romance, no invented history. If a word means something narrower than the internet thinks it does, the entry says so.
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The parts of a knife, front to back.
Profiles you will see named on a spec sheet.
How the steel is taken down to an edge.
What the finish and coating words on a spec sheet mean.
What holds the blade open, what starts it, and what lets it go.
Materials, liners, bolsters and the bits you actually hold.
How a knife rides.
Vocabulary carried over from slip-joint cutlery.
Metallurgy words, without the sales gloss.