Hyde Tools 02701 Black & Silver® Clipped Pointing Knife, 6” | the Hyde Store
Drywall Pointing Knives — Primary Tool
№02701

Hyde Tools 02701 Black & Silver® Drywall Clipped Pointing Knife

MODEL 02701 · SKU H-02701 · UPC 079423027017
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Black & Silver® Drywall Clipped Pointing Knife
Selection
Flexible
Hyde specifies
Material
High Carbon Steel
Hyde specifies
Dimensions
6 in, 152 mm
Hyde specifies
Blade
6" at 30° angle
Hyde specifies
THE COUNTER · PRODUCT FIT Straight answers. If it's the wrong tool for your job, we'll say so.

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Is this the right tool for your job?

✕DO NOT FORCE THE FIT
  • Not the apex specialist. The line's true-apex work — bottoming three-plane pockets — is the full-point 02700's alone; this tip is clipped short of it on purpose.
  • Not a scraper or demolition blade. Raking out failure, lifting tape, popping texture: stiff-blade work. This blade conforms; it does not dig.
  • Not the corner workhorse. Production inside-corner footage belongs to the 4" joint-knife method and the folded corner finishers; this knife exists for the footage they cannot land on.
  • Not a mortar tool. Brick joints and repointing are the masonry pointing trowels' trade (18100/18110). The §1 fork is the whole answer.
  • Not a flat-wall finisher. On open board a converging blade prints its taper; field patches and skim work belong to the putty knives and joint knives.

Jobs this tool does

EXACT JOB METHODS FOR HYDE №02701
Counter-checked How to Coat Compound Behind ObstructionsOPEN JOB GUIDE Counter-checked How to Detail-Patch Tight SpotsOPEN JOB GUIDE Counter-checked How to Finish a Drywall Corner Apex JunctionOPEN JOB GUIDE Counter-checked How to Tape and Finish Drywall Corners in Tight QuartersOPEN JOB GUIDE

How the pros run it

01

What the clip changes at the wall

The end of this blade is an edge, not a point — laid flat, it wipes right through its own tip. A full-point triangle cannot do that: carried to a spike, its apex always finishes a flat stroke unloaded and off the work. That end-edge is why the 02701 can finish at full extension in a blind slot, and the trade-off is fixed at manufacture: no true apex entry, ever. Choose strokes accordingly — run the end-edge flat where the work ends square, and leave three-plane terminations to the sibling.
02

The pressure map still applies

Clip or no clip, a narrow end concentrates force. Loaded strokes belong on the wide half of the blade; the leading third places material and otherwise rides light. Driven hard, even a truncated end prints — a short straight dent instead of a divot, no easier to bury.
03

Flexibility is the job description

The package's selection attribute — Flexible — files this blade under application, the fill side of the trade's fill/scrape split: it bows under fingertip pressure to press, wipe, and feather. Never pry with it; six inches of flexible steel side-loaded in a slot is how blades come back bent, and bent is how application blades die.
04

Steel

Joint compound is water, and high carbon steel remembers water. A blade wiped clean and dried at the end of the pan session stays black and silver; one left mudded comes back freckled with rust bloom. The ritual costs ten seconds and is not optional with this steel.

Asked at the counter

BUYER QUESTIONS ANSWERED BEFORE THE CART, NOT AFTER THE RETURN
What does "clipped" mean?
The tip is cut off at an angle — a short end-edge where a full point would be. It wipes flat at its very end and will not stab a divot into wet mud as readily; the cost is that it cannot reach the true bottom of a three-plane pocket.
What does the "30°" in the spec measure?
Unknown on the record. The catalog prints "6" at 30° angle" and no source labels the figure; the clip angle is the natural reading, and it stays unconfirmed until Hyde says so .
Why choose this over the 3-1/2"?
Reach and span: deep slots behind radiators and pipes, long tight creases, junctions at stretch. If your problem is pivot room and apex bottoms, choose the 02700 instead — those are its jobs.
Will it reach behind a radiator?
That is its lead job — enter flat, coat thin, finish on the draw out. Cool the radiator first and survey the slot by hand before the blade goes in.
Is this for repointing brick?
No. That is the pointing trowel (18100/18110, masonry line) — same word, different trade, different material. This blade touches joint compound only.
Stiff or flexible? Will it rust?
Flexible, per the package — an application blade, never a scraper or pry. High carbon steel: wipe it dry after compound work or expect rust bloom.
Why do the catalog and hydetools.com order the name differently?
"Drywall Clipped" vs "Clipped Drywall" — same words, shuffled; a cosmetic variance logged for the store, not a product difference .

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Model & SKUModel 02701 · SKU H-02701 · UPC 079423027017
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Specs & documentation

Full spec sheet
catalog product name
Black & Silver® Drywall Clipped Pointing Knife — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
specifications
blade: 6" at 30° angle — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official product name
Black & Silver® Clipped Drywall Pointing Knife — OFFICIAL EXACT VARIANT
official variant identity
02701 — OFFICIAL EXACT VARIANT
official package image fact
Package-observed dimensions or capacities: 6in, 152mm. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official package image fact
Package-observed materials: High Carbon Steel. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official package image fact
Package-observed selection attributes: Flexible. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official package image fact
Exact model 02701 appears in the official package image text. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
corroborated construction material
Retailer/distributor listing independently repeats: high carbon steel. — RETAILER DISTRIBUTOR CANDIDATE OR CORROBORATION
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$15.90SKU H-02701