Bowie with a piece of history

[Bruce Evans]

I made this Bowie as a donation for the Historical restoration of Booneville,Ms. which is the town that I live in.The handle scales are red oak and came from one of the original floor boards out of the loading and storage dock from the old Boonevile train Depot that has been restored and is now home of our local chamber of commerce,who restored a cabboose last year for people to tour.I donated a Knife last year and it brought in close to $1000.00 in a raffle that was held during our annual fall festival.They have decided to raffle this Bowie also.

For more pictures follow this link
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=743108&a=8845131
It is the first fire blued Guard that I have tried,Does it look OK....Bruce
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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives

The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society



[This message has been edited by beknives (edited 09-22-2000).]

 

[RMLamey]

Nice Bruce, very nice. When is the Fall Festival?? Might be worth a trip from Biloxi, and maybe you can help me practice those fancy guards

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" The true way of the sword is the craft of defeating the enemy in a fight, and nothing other than this" Ibid

www.lameyknives.com

 

[mikeS]

Bruce, that is very nice. Good job of work supporting the community.

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Sola Fide

 

[Bruce Evans]

Thanks for the kind words.Oh BTW.....If anybody is interested the Chamber said that I could sell tickets on this Bowie to you guys,The cost is $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00....you can email me and let me know what you want and how you want to pay for the tickets.....The drawing will be on Oct.21,2000 during the fall festival awards cerimony by the "Miss Fall Festival"for the year 2000.I will also be doing a forging demonstration in front of the courthouse that day,should be lots of fun and RMLamey you are more than welcome to come up and visit or even help me out with the forging demo and I will gladly help out with the guards.I took step by step pictures as I did the filework--Guard--and Handle of this Bowie,and I will be adding them to my website as soon as I get a chance ....Bruce

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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives

The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society

 

[Bruce Evans]

In case anybody is wondering,I will get no money from this raffle,"ALL" money will go to our historical restoration of downtown Booneville,Ms.........Bruce

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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives

The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society

 

[sing]

Bruce,

WOW! I like it. Is that a dasmascus guard?

sing
AKTI #A000356

 

[Bruce Evans]

Hey Sing,This was the first Blade I had done before I got in my head the shape you wanted and the gueard is just mild steel like your others and then Fire blued...Bruce

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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives

The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society

 

[e_utopia]

Hehe. Do you take paypal?

--JB

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e_utopia@hotmail.com

 

[Bruce Evans]

Im sorry I am not set up with pay pal but you can call me at (662)720-0193 and I can take Visa and Mastercard.or email me your number and I will call you....Bruce

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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives

The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society

 

[Bruce Evans]

I have finished the page s on my web sit on how to do this guard and handle.follow this link to the page about this style handle....Bruce
http://www.homestead.com/beknivessite2/cokebottlehandle~ns4.html

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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives

The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society

[This message has been edited by beknives (edited 09-23-2000).]

 

[kraut]

Bruce: Re, tickets for the raffle
Who do I make the money order out to and where do I send it?

Jim Ziegler aka kraut

 

[Bruce Evans]

You can make checks payable to:
Booneville Area Chamber of Commerce
You can send the check to me at:
Bruce Evans
409 cr. 1371
Booneville,Ms 38829
Let me know the name,address,and phone number to put on the tickets and if it is different than your return mailing address please let me know this also so I can send the ticket stubs to you.....and Thank You for your support....Bruce
Also please email me to let me know that you are sending money for tickets and how many tickets you want so I will know to be watching for your check,and I will email you back when it arrives....

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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives

The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society

[This message has been edited by beknives (edited 09-24-2000).]