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Without reading the article, my guess would be because it allows the force to be focused on a smaller area at the start of the cut.
by themaninthedark 2y ago
Without reading the article, my guess would be because it allows the force to be focused on a smaller area at the start of the cut.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoWouldn’t everything that is a blade be designed this way then?
- Spooky23 2y agoThey are. Except for Japanese style knives, all knives have a slant. The Japanese knives are only sharpened with a single edge, however. So they in a profile view look like a tiny guillotine.
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- salomonk_mur 2y agoAlmost everything that is a blade is designed to be curved or slanted, yes.
- evilduck 2y agoMany are. Scissors, drill bits, even the way most people use a kitchen knife, they put as much force onto as small of area as possible. At certain differences in scale it won't matter (razor blade vs a single hair), but how a cut is performed is definitely part of the design process.
- tengbretson 2y agoLike a mandolin slicer?
- tomjakubowski 2y agochopping vegetables with a chef's knife applies the same principle
- t-3 2y agoOnly those that go in frames. The angle is applied while using proper cutting technique for knives. A flat blade would also go dull rather quickly, as only one portion of the blade would be doing all the cutting (well, tearing, a straight drop with a flat blade would be like trying to chop a tomato rather than slicing it).
- nosianu 2y ago> it allows the force to be focused on a smaller area at the start of the cut Is this really true when the object to be cut, a neck, is approximately spherical? I can see the truth of the statement for a straight horizontal rectangular object, but for a cylinder-like shape?
- loloquwowndueo 2y agoCylindrical not spherical.
- dredmorbius 2y agoApproximately spherical after the fact.