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Looking for a maker...
...that can make me a classic southwest style bowie with a wootz blade. Any suggestions? I am conversing with Ric Furrer, but am not sure he would want to work in a classic style, so I thought I would look for other alternatives. Thanks.
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Keith - Gib and I would be interested - I'm sure we can get the wootz to work with, but I'm curious EXACTLY what YOU mean by a classic "Southwest" Bowie. This is one of those seemingly new collector terms that has only recently popped up - in fact not too long ago it seems that I saw some discussion on it in other post and no one exactly pinned it down IIRC. :confused:
A picture of course is worth a thousand words... Thanks in advance.... __________________ Chuck Burrows Hand Crafted Leather & Frontier Knives dba Wild Rose Trading Co Durango, CO chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com The beautiful sheaths created for storing the knife elevate the knife one step higher. It celebrates the knife it houses. Last edited by Chuck Burrows; 09-04-2004 at 07:40 PM. |
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The southwest style bowie has a wider blade with a short clip. The clip sometimes has a very small amount of upsweep to it.
Here is a picture of a Jerry Fisk southwest style bowie. __________________ Avatar is my Wild Goo. |
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Howdy Keith - I looked up that post about SW Bowies:
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So with all of that do you mean "classical" in the ABS sense, since that's where the term SW Bowie seems to have derived from or classical in the traditional/original sense? Either way this would be a fun project - umm with a sheath???????? __________________ Chuck Burrows Hand Crafted Leather & Frontier Knives dba Wild Rose Trading Co Durango, CO chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com The beautiful sheaths created for storing the knife elevate the knife one step higher. It celebrates the knife it houses. Last edited by Chuck Burrows; 09-04-2004 at 08:47 PM. |
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Hi Kieth,
I have been making that style knife for a long time and found it to be one of the best sellers. I have photos of three on my site www.cactusforge.com the numbers are BK002-BK006-BK014. Chuck and I would be very interested in this project. Gib |
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Chuck, I guess I am looking for a knife something like the first one of the three in your post. I prefer the look of BK002 on Gib's site.
Chuck, Gib, I will contact you to discuss this in the next few days. Oh, by the way, if I was going to go with a knife made by you guys then of course it would have to have an appropriate sheath made by you, Chuck. __________________ Avatar is my Wild Goo. |
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Howdy Keith - sounds good and looking forward to working with you again. I can do scale drawings in order to get it nailed down.
__________________ Chuck Burrows Hand Crafted Leather & Frontier Knives dba Wild Rose Trading Co Durango, CO chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com The beautiful sheaths created for storing the knife elevate the knife one step higher. It celebrates the knife it houses. |
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Chuck's observation about the "no straight lines" design trait of a "south Western" is very astute. I also identify that style as a Mexican style, I get the idea from what is sold on E-bay, etc., that there are tons of these around as cheap tourist junk, but it is a traditional style, many old ones were fine quality and, again this is my impression, given as presentation gifts, etc., kinda like dress pieces for the Grand Patrone in his best festival outfit. The no straight lines is something we struggle to overcome on our way to forging that perfect ABS style blade, and unfortuantely, I think we over look a lot of fine forging in the process. A preformed billet with the bevels forged in will assume this shape as a out come of the process. and it works very well as a cutting tool also. It is a different aesthetic, but more process based. just my opinion mind you.
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harley __________________ harley www.lonesomepineknives.com |
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