Bill Bagwell Knives

These two kinda favor Russ Andrews style, but I did just forge out a slender 10 inch bagwell style blade yesterday and I am going to see how many peices of wood I can screw up trying to do a coffin handle:D To me, Bill Bagwell is kind of like the Chuck Berry of modern forged fighting bowies. Other guys may play cleaner and faster, but its still a Chuck Berry riff:thumbup:

Joe I gotta tell ya I've never seen ya make a dum post. ya hit the nail right on the head with that one.:D
 
To me, Bill Bagwell is kind of like the Chuck Berry of modern forged fighting bowies. Other guys may play cleaner and faster, but its still a Chuck Berry riff:thumbup:
i hope you don't mind but i added this as my signature.:thumbup:
 
here are some pic of my bagwell collections, finally got my friend to take the pics, thought i would share them.

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i got the carbon blade on feb, bill made it according to my specs. very nice guy.:)
 
Masterduck very nice pieces. I really like your Hells Belle without notch and the Birds head piece is great thanks for posting
 
When I bought my stag carbon Bagwell many years ago from Plaza, I think, they also had one of those Blackwood "eagle" bowies in carbon and a dogbone bowie in osage orange, both in carbon steel, IIRC. I went for the stag handled one, but any of the three would have done in a pinch. I wish that I had been able to get all three considering what they sell for nowadays.:D
 
Question.........are all damascus Bagwells made from cable?
 
Question.........are all damascus Bagwells made from cable?

Joe as far as I know Bill has done different type damascus but he has settled on wire cable and those are the only ones that I have ever seen he calls it Satan's Lace. I will ask Bill if he has ever done anything but cable lately
 
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yes he does other / pattern weld damascus as well. last year at the Quigley match he had a bowie with a six bar composite blade init.
 
Have to say I think the cable looks the best. Love that blade on fire look. Would be interesting to see other damascus types of his though. Mine was all finished up today and it's being posted soon :)
 
UGH! you guys are killing me ! now my bagwell fever has started all over again ! i am very jealous i do not have a belle, even though i have 5 of his bowies at home, isnt that sad,lol. even worse i am out traveling/working till the 20th so i cannot even post pics:grumpy: few years back, i heard about this guy and wondered what all the fuss was about. he seems to carry some type of mystique, and i hear he was a green beret and i had collected a few al mar knives and decided to check one out. first i bought a copy ontario. you guys will laugh but i still went out into the woods whacking trees with a fighting knife,lol. it was terrible actually in the woods.ive been been hacking in the wood for quite a few years,i kinda know whats up. another user on the shelf. after reading his battle blades book, i got more curious, and became a fan. so i bought a real one. carbon steel, brass, stag stick, not sure of the measurements, double extra forged (( been wondering what that means besides the obvious, anyone know? )) i put a thin coat of mineral oil on the blade,(hoping no sap will stick) went out to the woods. then i understood what a high performance knife is. dropping saplings 1 1/2 inches thick in one swipe. even oaks. my eyes formed into slits and i really felt i could remove the hand of a punk trying to rob me with a knife just below the wrist in one swipe, bones and everything. and i am a skinny 135 lb guy too. imagine a big man slashing full force, scary. i have two carbon stag stick handled bowies, probably 10 and 11 inch blades, with brass guards. i have one with a crown stag, its probaby 9 inches, a little bit of a stouter blade. i have one with maybe a rosewood handle, with brass decorative pins and twisted wire wrapped around the handle, set into a spiral groove. i have large hunter with a birdsbeak handle and brass, i have a damascus one with a damascus guard, thinner blade maybe 12 inches long.,and sword catcher. last but sweetest, an evil double edged fighting knife, beautiful grinds,spearpoint shape, neat lil tips that stick out where the blade meets the choil, crown stag handle, with metal embellishments on the end of the handle that match the frog on the sheath. whoops i think that is 6 instead of 5. i hope the bagwell posts keep coming ! john
 
I got my beauty of a knife today and will try to get pics up asap for it. It is a stunner and pretty darn big too :). Will hopefully post them in another thread for yas all to enjoy. Mr Bagwell is a legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
It's hard tryin to get good pics :) I've been tryin the last 2 days but not getting any good ones. I'll keep trying and post them asap :D
 
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