Here's the Bowie I'm working on.

[Kevster]

[Ray Rogers]

That does look like a bowie, now that you mention it. A buffalo horn cap might look good on the end of the handle and it looks like you might have more guard than you really need ....

[Kevster]

Yeah Ray, it is a little long, but its heat treated 1084 so I'm just going to live with it. I'm giving it to a friend who gives me axis horn. Plus it doesn't look too bad.

[RHammer]

Kevster, did you just grind the turquoise or did you have to do anything special to get it shaped?

[Doug Lester]

No reason to live with the guard that way if you don't like it. An angle grinder or a rotary tool will nip it right off and then you can shape it one your grinder. It's a nice knife all else considered and I usually don't like bowies.

Doug

[Kevster]

Originally Posted by RHammer

Kevster, did you just grind the turquoise or did you have to do anything special to get it shaped?

The turquoise is just a composite materal, I glued the copper, turquoise and stainless together and sanded the on my grinder, and then hand sanded after that.

[Kevster]

Originally Posted by Doug Lester

No reason to live with the guard that way if you don't like it. An angle grinder or a rotary tool will nip it right off and then you can shape it one your grinder. It's a nice knife all else considered and I usually don't like bowies.

Doug

Yeah Doug, I think it will look better shorter, I'll nip it off later today.