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