This is a thing of beauty. He isn't 30 yet, but one of Ben Seward's Bowies and/or Fighters has been a Top 5 finalist in 2 of the last 3 BF/John White Best Bowie of the Year competition*[Details & Links Below], and he's won the top spot at many blade show awards. If you want a new Ben Seward, the wait time is already over 2 years.
The 1st pic below is from Ben's Instagram, immediately after he completed the knife; the hamon that he always manages to get is striking, unique, and instantly recognizable. The rest of the pics are of a different knife in the same walnut and W2 configuration, but with an even nicer sheath.
The blade is just 5.5 inches, with a magnificent piece of Walnut for the handle. The sheath is a waist-line parallel reverse-grip right-hand draw/left-hand cross-draw, of leather and alligator; the whole deal is new from Ben just a couple months ago. It's done nothing but look pretty in all that time.
Ben Seward's one of the most sought after bladesmith's around, and this is his most popular model, for obvious reasons. It has a profile that is all business, including a sharpened top swedge; it's a super-compact and easily concealable fighter that can double as an EDC utility. It carries very comfortably, at least in the couple of times I tried it on.
The price was {$1050.00 USD/$1420.00 CAD}
NOW JUST:
$920.00 USD/1245.00 CAD
INCLUDING:
Expedited shipping in the US/Canada & PP-Goods Fees.
Interac Email Payment (in Canada) and Paypal Goods (US) are the preferred methods of payment, and again, I'll cover the PP fees... obviously.
First 'I'll take it' - in the thread or private message - gets it; but for the sake of caution, I reserve the right to sell to whomever I please.
If you want more pics - of the spectacular sheath, handmade and hand-tooled from leather & gator, one of the nicest I've seen (by Ben's father) - or of the knife itself - let me know. No pics do it justice, and my camera sucks, but you get a basic idea of it's brilliance. This is one of the best knives I've owned, & a personal favorite. I still want to keep it, but I'm letting reason prevail... there's a first time for everything, I guess.
With a discreet 5.5 inches of blade, it has enough superdense badassery to scare off an 18-inch Musso Bowie... like a wolverine fighting off a Grizzly, eating the frozen Moose carcass in front of the confused Bear that dug it out, and then pissing on the scraps, just to be a d**k. (Hyperbole, of course.)
*[In the last three John White BF Best Bowie of the Year Awards, Seward's beaten out hundreds of the most experienced and talented Mastersmiths to make the 'cut' for the elite group of Top 5 finalists in 2014 and 2016... even truly legendary Mastersmiths like Mike Quesenberry (the 2016 winner), Don Hanson III, the brilliant CAS' Sobral, et al.
2016 - The Ben Seward/Ben Breda collaboration - it came in 3rd out of the 5 Finalists.
2014 - Ben Seward - Checkered Handle Bowie - it came in 4th of 6 Finalists.
Check it out:
- http://www.bladeforums.com/threads/...ing-closed-finalists-selected.1247132/page-12
- http://www.bladeforums.com/threads/2016-john-white-ms-memorial-best-bowie-final-vote-thread.1458685/]
The 1st pic below is from Ben's Instagram, immediately after he completed the knife; the hamon that he always manages to get is striking, unique, and instantly recognizable. The rest of the pics are of a different knife in the same walnut and W2 configuration, but with an even nicer sheath.
The blade is just 5.5 inches, with a magnificent piece of Walnut for the handle. The sheath is a waist-line parallel reverse-grip right-hand draw/left-hand cross-draw, of leather and alligator; the whole deal is new from Ben just a couple months ago. It's done nothing but look pretty in all that time.
Ben Seward's one of the most sought after bladesmith's around, and this is his most popular model, for obvious reasons. It has a profile that is all business, including a sharpened top swedge; it's a super-compact and easily concealable fighter that can double as an EDC utility. It carries very comfortably, at least in the couple of times I tried it on.
The price was {$1050.00 USD/$1420.00 CAD}
NOW JUST:
$920.00 USD/1245.00 CAD
INCLUDING:
Expedited shipping in the US/Canada & PP-Goods Fees.
Interac Email Payment (in Canada) and Paypal Goods (US) are the preferred methods of payment, and again, I'll cover the PP fees... obviously.
First 'I'll take it' - in the thread or private message - gets it; but for the sake of caution, I reserve the right to sell to whomever I please.
If you want more pics - of the spectacular sheath, handmade and hand-tooled from leather & gator, one of the nicest I've seen (by Ben's father) - or of the knife itself - let me know. No pics do it justice, and my camera sucks, but you get a basic idea of it's brilliance. This is one of the best knives I've owned, & a personal favorite. I still want to keep it, but I'm letting reason prevail... there's a first time for everything, I guess.
With a discreet 5.5 inches of blade, it has enough superdense badassery to scare off an 18-inch Musso Bowie... like a wolverine fighting off a Grizzly, eating the frozen Moose carcass in front of the confused Bear that dug it out, and then pissing on the scraps, just to be a d**k. (Hyperbole, of course.)
*[In the last three John White BF Best Bowie of the Year Awards, Seward's beaten out hundreds of the most experienced and talented Mastersmiths to make the 'cut' for the elite group of Top 5 finalists in 2014 and 2016... even truly legendary Mastersmiths like Mike Quesenberry (the 2016 winner), Don Hanson III, the brilliant CAS' Sobral, et al.
2016 - The Ben Seward/Ben Breda collaboration - it came in 3rd out of the 5 Finalists.
2014 - Ben Seward - Checkered Handle Bowie - it came in 4th of 6 Finalists.
Check it out:
- http://www.bladeforums.com/threads/...ing-closed-finalists-selected.1247132/page-12
- http://www.bladeforums.com/threads/2016-john-white-ms-memorial-best-bowie-final-vote-thread.1458685/]