Professional knife
The group of working knives and professional knives is extensive. For example, they serve various professional groups and are used for hunting , in the vineyard , on the ship, in the forest, for processing wood or for rescue. Many are also used as leisure knives or have evolved into such over time.
- Bowie knife
- Bowie knives are a type of heavy work and combat knives that were first used in America. They are one of the legends of the Wild West and are named after the trapper James Bowie .
- Cutter , carpet knife or cardboard knife
- In the household , for opening cartons and-used to craft knife with replaceable blade . When sturdy, you use the cutter to cut carpets. If the used cutting edge has become blunt, the blade is not re-sharpened, but depending on the design, the original cutting performance is restored by breaking, turning or replacing the blade. In Switzerland it is called the Japanese knife , in Austria the Stanley knife .
- Travel knife
- The term travel knife is used for various types of knives from the areas of hunting, pocket and forest knives. It was created in the 1920s and was adopted by the Hitler Youth for the HJ travel knife .
- Butcher's , butcher's or butcher's knife
- Butcher knives are professional knives for butchers , butchers and butchers, e.g. B. boning, block, meat, butchering or skinning knives. Some of them are also used as kitchen knives .
- The Hippe is a knife for work in horticulture , agriculture and forestry .
- Hunting knife
- The hunter needs a hunting knife for a wide range of tasks during the hunt and for catching and working on the game that has been shot . In principle, almost any sturdy knife is suitable for this. Nevertheless, special forms of hunting knives have developed over time for the various tasks.
- Cable knife
- are used in electrical installations.
- Putty knife
- are traditionally used by glaziers, painters and carpenters
- Skinning knife
- Until about the first third of the 20th century, skinning knives were a ground piece of steel that was sharpened to a point on a moistened whetstone if necessary. Today the term describes a blade holder in roughly the same form.
- machete
- A machete is a large machete .
- razor
- A razor is a very sharp folding knife for wet shaving.
- Rescue knife
- Rescue knives are special knives for searching and rescuing victims in emergencies with short, stable blades, partly saw-ground , acoustic and optical aids (small lights and / or whistles) and rigid or foldable blades .
- Ship or sailor knives
- Ship knives are very simple rigid knives, formerly equipped with a strong saw blade for cutting ropes.
- Carving knife
- The carving knife is used for woodworking; it is part of a set of carving tools .
- Safety knife
- In contrast to "conventional" knives with fixed blades, the blade of safety knives is automatically pulled back into the handle by a tension spring as soon as the blade no longer has any contact with the material to be cut. This automatic blade protection prevents dangerous cuts.
- Wallpaper knife
- Knife for separating wallpaper rolls to the desired length. They are double-edged and relatively blunt.
- Diving knife
- Diving knives are special knives for use in and under water.
- Tscherper
- The Tscherper was the 16th of the 20th century to the beginning as a knife with a straight cutting an indispensable tool of the miners.
- Forest knife
- Forest knives are Scandinavian utility knives for all occasions with sturdy blades and mostly wooden handles.
- Cigar knife
- are not cigar cutters , but professional knives of the tobacco industry for cigar production.