Damascus Carry Bowie

Greg Covington

Greg Covington

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I decided to spend the weekend of the 4th squishing around a remnant of a 180 layer billet and see if I could come up with something respectable in size.

The piece I had left over was 180 layers of 1095, L6, and some 15n20.....the piece was about 5/16" thick and 2" square. I welded the chunk to a piece of rebar and drew it out with the press and forged in a tang with the drawing dies. All this talk about presses recently made me want to squish some steel :rolleyes:

I then handforged the tip,bevels, and ricasso into a Bowie blade that measures about 6.5" long and resulted in a blade 3/16" thick. The guard is some raindrop pattern that I hadn't used before. It is JB Welded in place. (note here that I used one of Uncle Al's guard soldering fixtures and they are GREAT!). The handle is a nice Sambar taper that had a big bump on the side (not a Bruce Bump)....I ground that away and then gave it some color with brown shoe dye. The handle has a single NS pin and it is finished off with an ebony buttcap.

The sheath is heavy pigskin.

The knife ended up being a nice light carry Bowie and dear God is it sharp!

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That's both an attractive and very useful-looking piece. Well done!

Roger
 
Very nice! You made that blade and sheath over the weekend? :eek:
 
Always impressive, Greg. Those dimensions are just perfect for a Personal carry Bowie too. Like Keith, I also generally prefer a handle that has a spacer between the handle proper and the guard. Purely for the look and entirely a personal preference.

Also may I ask, what is that leather you are using ? - looks great !

Nice photo too. Cheers. Jason.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
Very nice. An ebony spacer would have looked great, but it looks pretty darn good just the way it is.
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Keith....ya know...I was just about to add an ebony spacer there at the guard, but I felt that I would have to border it in NS or something like that...and I was fresh out of material in that size. I definetely crossed my mind but the sambar taper was exactly the right proportion that flowed to this blade...so I went with it.
 
Jason Cutter said:
Always impressive, Greg. Those dimensions are just perfect for a Personal carry Bowie too. Like Keith, I also generally prefer a handle that has a spacer between the handle proper and the guard. Purely for the look and entirely a personal preference.

Also may I ask, what is that leather you are using ? - looks great !

Nice photo too. Cheers. Jason.
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Jason...thanks for the compliments! Love that Firestorm you posted!

The sheath leather is just heavy pig skin....dyed dark brown.
 
Really nice. All I did last weekend was drink, eat, smoke.
 
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