The Industry Goes Bananas for Hyde’s Banana Knives

Like all of our products, Hyde’s cuchillos bananeros, or banana knives, are some of the world’s finest blades.

Hyde makes their banana knife using premium high carbon steel and stainless steel. They not only look sharp but they stay sharp.

Our banana knives are also flexible. That’s an important characteristic for a tool that has to navigate through leaves, branches, and other bunches of bananas.

Our knives’ flexibility also allows the user to have better control. Better control means less damage to the fruit. Less damage to the fruit means better yield.

For our banana knife handles we use a special hardwood and a poly foam. The poly foam does float which means knives with this type of handle won’t sink to the bottom of your selection tanks.

The range, in overall length, of Hyde’s banana knives:

• De-handing knives, 9-1/2″
• De-leafing, and pruning knives, 11-1/2″
• Floating selecting knives, 7-3/4”
• Selecting knives, 7-3/4″

De-handing refers to cutting the bananas off the tree.

Hyde also has sheaths for banana knives. They are made out of stitched leather and reinforced with riveting. Yes, they come with a belt loop. 

“Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions is located in Southbridge, Massachusetts. What do they know about bananas?”

That is a very good question. While there aren’t too many banana trees in New England, Hyde has been making knives and blades since 1875.

During that time, we’ve made knives for a plethora of industries including food processing, textiles, paper, packaging, tire, and rubber.

You’ll be hard pressed to find an industry that doesn’t use, or a material that isn’t cut, by a Hyde knife. We may not know a lot about bananas but we know knives and we know how to make a quality cut.

Do not get a banana knife confused with a cane knife. As you can see from the list above, most banana knives are moderate in a size.

A cane knife is similar in size and shape to a machete but with a thinner blade. As the name suggest, it’s for used cutting sugarcane.

A linoleum knife is sometimes called a banana knife. The linoleum knife looks like a banana knife but it’s usually shorter and stiffer. It’s designed to cut linoleum, wood paneling, sheet mica, and veneer.

Hyde makes a linoleum knife but we call it a “hook knife.” The blade comes in two lengths, 3 3/8” and 4”. You can find it in our Industrial Knives and Blades catalog by clicking here.

Just so you know, the banana knives Hyde manufactures are actually used on plantations. The banana you had for lunch may have been cut with a Hyde blade.