Early American Pre-Bowie

[R APPLEBY]

Saw steel, wrought iron and elk, Blade measures 9 inches and knife is 14 inches over all. I still need to finish a period sheath for it but for now I just wanted to post a pic of the knife.

Thanks for looking

 

[iflygreen]

Very interesting...

 

[D lisch]

I would say you did a fine job as it looks very old to me.

 

[xaman]

Nice job, I like that one a lot

 

[John M Cohea]

Very nice Bob. Please re-post when you finish the sheath.

 

[2knife]

I like this a lot. Very impressive! Hope you will post photo of sheath too.
David

 

[R APPLEBY]

Thanks Guys, I can't wait to finish the sheath, I love this period stuff too.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

Looks great. Where did the inspiration for this knife come from?

 

[R APPLEBY]

Thanks Keith,

The book "THE BOWIE KNIFE" by Norm Flayderman is a valuable resource for those interested in old knife patterns. I look through it often, in this case I combined features of a couple of pre-bowie period knives and this is what happened.

 

[R APPLEBY]

Finally finished this yesterday. It came out with the aged and slightly used appearance that I was hoping for

8/9oz leather sheath with antiqued brass tip and throat with a brass ball frog button.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks for looking.

 

[John M Cohea]

Looks great Bob!

 

[R APPLEBY]

Thanks John

 

[2knife]

Nice job! It compliments the style of this knife very well i think.
David