Bowie knives: Just for fun.

[colt_saa]

colt saa,
That is an impressive collection you have there.
I could not begin to afford those beauties.

jinx,
Thank you for the kind word. Unfortunately, these are not my personal possessions. These are inventory. We buy and sell all types of high end knives. We have 2000+ pieces in stock

By coincidence I have three buyers looking for largs Damascus blades in a couple of foreign countries right now so I started photographing more yesterday (I am behind in my photographing.

Here are the ones photographed today. Sorry they are not all Bowies

Kyle Royer

Roger Bergh

A four maker collaboration

Featuring Adam Des Rosier and Kyle Royer

Don Hanson

Josh Smith

Shawn McIntyre

Mikke Anderson

Rick Eaton

Wille Rigney​

I will be photographing more tomorrow

 

[Charlie Foxtrott]

No Bowie knife thread would be complete.

Without a Randall Raymond Thorpe.

 

[wbraswell]

colt saa, stop it! I suggest you continue your photographs in the For Sale foum with prices on them, cuz I am wanting them! What art! This thread has reminded me of the one about guns being weapons or tools. Make no mistake, a Bowie knife is a weapon, it is a fighting knife, that's what ol' Jim had it made for, and he used it that way. Quite proficiently, as the stories go. I don't care if you hang it on the wall, whittle with it, or carve your roast, it will always be a fighting knife.
Remember the Alamo!

 

[Zebadiah]

I consider the Cold Steel Black Bear Classic is perhaps the best factory fighting knife of all time. While not strictly a Bowie per the classic definition, it is of equal size and better in most regards. Its razor sharp San Mai III steel blade and the extra finger guard on the linen micarta grip makes it a perfect fighting life. Mine came with the now unavailable leather scabbard. I have handled quite a number of old, original Bowies, and I think Cold Steel has most of them beaten. Everyone has an opinion; thanks for listening to mine. Y'all keep my days interesting and informative.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

I have a couple but no pictures. I'll have to remedy that and post some pix.

I wish someone could actually define what a Bowie knife is.

 

[6518John]

"The distinctive characteristics of these knives are that they are guardless, with coffin-shaped handles of burled walnut, wrapped in coin silver, often with plating on the ricasso. Flayderman says “...there is no dissention that the knife [his own guardless coffin illustrated on page 446] and others of its style are among the very earliest known....” Such an early knife was copied by American knifemakers and, especially by cutlers in Sheffield. The coffin- shaped handle remained very popular throughout the heyday of the bowie knife. The silver wrap became a popular feature of many knives. Even the plating of the ricasso can be found on American and Sheffield examples."

 

[6518John]

One of earliest known examples.

 

[BearBio]

a pair of Old Armies with moose antler by Grashorn and a scrimmed Bowie:


Mike Leach Bowie (hippo ivory) and a 2nd Gen Walker:


OM Blackhawk in 45 Colt with a Randall #23 (My hunting rig=both stocked in water buffalo):


Uberti Dragoon and home-made Bowie (buffalo horn):


Colt OM with Boker Bowie:


Colt Officer's acp and Randall #1:

 

[fat tom]

A couple of stag-handled beauties.





f.t.

 

[colt_saa]

I photographed a few more big knives today, so here they are

Sorry wbraswell

Harvey Dean

John Horrigan

Rodrigo Sfreddo

The late Jeff White

Rick Dunkerly

Roger Hatt

John Horrigan​

 

[mauser9]

What a treat to behold!!! I visited the Alamo 3 years back and got to see a couple in a glass display case. Not sure of the history but recall the blades had scenes and etching. Believe they were made long ago. Thanks for showing a fantastic collection

 

[jag312]

I have two Bowie knives; a Randall Smithsonian and a Randall Confederate. If you count them as a Bowie knife, I also have a few Randall No. 1 and No. 14. I also have a Randall No. 1 made in Springfield, Massachusetts.

 

[Zebadiah]

a pair of Old Armies with moose antler by Grashorn and a scrimmed Bowie:


Mike Leach Bowie (hippo ivory) and a 2nd Gen Walker:


OM Blackhawk in 45 Colt with a Randall #23 (My hunting rig=both stocked in water buffalo):


Uberti Dragoon and home-made Bowie (buffalo horn):


Colt OM with Boker Bowie:


Colt Officer's acp and Randall #1:

Some of these posts and pictures are so good that we ought to be able to "like" them two or three times, don't you agree?

 

[CZU]

This has always been what my idea of the Bowie Knife should be, probably because as a kid the movie "The Iron Mistress" was one of my favorites. I was a Alan Ladd fan as well.

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[M1A]

Made by Buffalo Waller. Elk antler and buffalo horn.

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

KNIVES

Acquired this DAVIS knife a number of years ago in a trade -- value at that time was supposed to be north of 4 bills, I really don't know. Shes big though.