How about a listing of what some of the terms mean...tang, clip, etc...??? This way dummy's like me can learn and understand more about what ya'll are talking about.  

I saw a pic of one of Doug's knives with a little circular notch cut out of the bottom edge near the handle....what's that called?

This could get interesting.

     

terry
thatd be the choil

That would be a choil.

beat me  

i think as well as parts of knives , all the different styles of knives would be interesting to list.

http://www.jayfisher.com/Knife_Anatomy_Parts_Names_Definitions.htm

Well you asked for it! That site has knife styles I've never seen before. A real course of study.
Good thread/post.

wow awesome post you could read stuff on there for days lol

OK...Choil....so what is a choil for???

Ah....just went to the link...what I was looking for is called a 'line cutter' I think.

Thanks.

Terry, I don't know what knife you were referring to but I'm guessing from your description that it was a Spanish Notch.
(Just copy and paste "spanish notch" into Google and click "images" in the left hand column.

I did....thanks...and those diagrams make it real easy.