Blade design: half stop
- The half stop slows the blade as it is shut, providing confidence to the user that their fingers won’t get trapped.
- If you will be selling your knives and wish to display them in the half open position, you might want to reduce the length of the tang so the spring is not raised at this point so is not left under pressure.
- Subtle changes to the shape of the corners greatly affect the opening and closing action. You might like to aim for a squarer corner at the top so it takes more pressure to go from open to half stop, then a rounder corner underneath so it takes less pressure to go from half stop to closed:
