Hyde’s Ten Coolest Hand Knives

Below, are Hyde’s ten coolest hand knives.

What constitutes a cool hand knife? Is it how it cuts, slices, perforates, slits, trims, or creases?

Is it the handle? Is it the steel?

Is it what they’re used for? Hyde knives are used in farming, flooring, insulation, pottery, roofing, and wood craving.

Actually, we just perused all the knives Hyde makes and picked the ten that looked the coolest. It was really that simple.

After all, it really doesn’t matter which knives we selected because all of Hyde’s hand knives are known as “the tools of the trade.”

10. Flooring/Roofing Knife (20550)

This is one cool hook knife with a chrome vanadium steel blade. The handle is rubberized with a no-slip textured grip.

9. Paris Curve (55300)

You can’t have a list of cool knives and not include the knife called the “Paris Curve.” It has a high carbon chrome vanadium steel blade and a hardwood handle.

8. Leather Handle Hacking Knife (40210)

What’s the leather handle for? It’s to protect the user’s hand from heat. How cool is that? This hacking knife comes with a one-quarter-inch wide blade.

7. Specialty Square Point Knife (60870)

This cool mill knife comes with a beautiful hardwood handle that’s riveted to a high carbon steel blade.

6. Square Point Insulation Knife (60118)

This black and silver tool has a wavy blade. Made out of chrome vanadium steel, this square point is meant to cut insulation materials and to do so without binding. The soft-grip handle is ergonomically designed.

5. Potter’s Knife (40310)

Even if you don’t work with pottery or ceramics, you’ll want this potter’s knife. It has a hardwood handle with a long carbon steel blade.

4. Sloyd Wood Carving Knife (40160)

This knife is made to carve wood. If you’re not a carver you can still use it for general cutting. The blade is made from high carbon steel and the handle is—yes, you guessed it—hardwood.

3. Hook Knife (67150)

This knife with the four-inch blade, and the sharp V-ground hook, is made for roofing and flooring. You might want to install a roof or floor just so you can have this tool in your box.

2. Industrial Butcher Knife (68180)

Hyde makes several industrial butcher knives. All of them are super cool, but the 14-inch flat ground safety knife is definitely the coolest. Like all of their butcher knives, the 14-incher has a high carbon steel blade that’s been ground, hardened, honed, and tempered. The easy-to-grip hardwood handle has been triple riveted.

1. Banana Knife (S-99756)

Hyde makes wonderful “cuchillos bananeros.” The coolest has to be the eleven and half inch banana knife with the stainless steel blade. It’s used for de-handing, de-leafing, and pruning.

All of the aforementioned tools, except for the banana knife, can be found in Hyde’s hand knives catalog. To view the catalog, click here. For more on the banana knife, click here.