Hey, I didn't know Don made bowies!
Are they any good?
Let me answer my own question, no, they are not good, not good at all, they are the BEST.
Buy one, you'll see what I mean, if you don't think it's the best work you ever saw, I'm sure Don would be more than happy to take it back, and hopefully sell it to me...
I just wish many of the knives I have seen by various Mastersmiths were as well made. I have yet to find a flaw on any Hanson knife I own, folder or fixed, something I can't say about any other maker's knives.
Don's knives aren't cheap, and yet, still, are a bargain, that says it all I think.
You know, people go nuts and pay big bucks for bowies from some of the top Mastersmiths, Fisk, Bradshaw, Newton, Dean, Massey, Hancock etc... and there doesn't (yet) seem to be quite that much mainstream excitement about Don's bowies, possibly it's because 1) He hasn't been thought of as a bowie maker until fairly recently, and is still more thought of as a maker of high end folders, and 2) He isn't a MS (yet). But, none of these should dissuade you from jumping on the Hanson Bowie Wagon...
if anything, it should motivate you to do so NOW, while they are available and cheaper than they'll be when they are recognized widely as some of the finest forged bowies ever made, by anybody, with any type of rank or title. If I could afford to, I'd buy every bowie of his I liked, and, actually, until recently, I believe I did just that.
I must sound like an ad for Don, Don has never once asked me to post on his behalf, I do so because I am so taken with his work, and so impressed, I like to turn people onto what I think are good values, or knives that are exceptional, and, Don's are both.
