Anti-glare blade coating
The presence of an
anti-glare coating on the knife blade. The most popular color for such blades is black, but there are other options, including even white. The main purpose is to prevent glare from the blade that can reveal the knife's owner or create inconvenience during use. This is especially important during hunting and similar activities, which is why this feature is often found in hunting and fishing models (see "Type") as well as "survival" knives. At the same time, it doesn't stop there. For example, matte coating is also used in
multitools, and here it primarily concerns convenience during work. In some knives, such blades play more of an aesthetic role, giving the product a stylish appearance or resembling a military model.
Blade thickness
The thickness of the knife blade at its thickest point (usually at the butt). According to this parameter, one can to some extent evaluate the strength of the blade for transverse loads: a large thickness gives an appropriate margin of safety. At the same time, one should not forget that the “endurance” of a knife as a whole depends on many other features of its design, and only blades made of materials similar in properties can be compared in thickness. But what this indicator directly affects is the weight of the product.
Also, legal issues can be associated with the thickness of the blade, which determine whether a particular knife belongs to a cold weapon and the corresponding rules for buying, wearing and storing. The relevant rules may state, for example, that blades with a thickness of more than a certain value cannot be classified as melee weapons, regardless of other features.
Weight
The total weight of the knife. It is worth evaluating this indicator depending on the type (see above) and purpose: for example, for a compact hiking model,
light weight is usually a virtue, among hunting and fishing it all depends on specialization, and a machete, by definition, must be
weighty — otherwise, cut with such a blade it will just be uncomfortable.
