Estwing Drop-Forged Bowie, Best Navaja Fighter Ever Made

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I would not want to use that as a chopper since it is one piece, I would imagine it stings the hand pretty badly. The handle is weird but if it fits the hand OK then that is just an aesthetic thing.

I agree with Shotugun re: folders too, a lot of them look cool (I guess) but the ergos look/are horrendous.
 
Shotgun said:
LOL...the handle doesn't look all that bad to me. It's not going to be a good whittler but I think this is more of a beater knife anyway. What's funny is everyone making fun of it and yet there's thread after thread of horribly done handles on pocket knives costing 10 times as much and not so much as a peep about it. In fact everyone seems to think they're awesome. I guess the estwing isn't pretty enough for the man jewelry crowd. :D
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There would be, but I try not to make such comments very much so I don't get banned. People would not like me making such comments 3 times a day every day.
 
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I also had visions of a stacked leather handle, a la some of the old KaBar offerings. But alas...
 
So Uath Uath , you planning on coming back and defending this knife?
Have any in use pics?
 
marcinek said:
Did they make that, or contract out someone to make that for them (which, I suspect, they are doing for this Bowie thing).
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Those were contracted out to Jarvenpaa of Finland. The folders were made by EKA as mentioned, They also had a deluxe Western contracted model at one point -

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These little guys were made for them by Utica -

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The only ones that might be made in house are these new dropped forged guys, and these 1940's era ones -

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Ebbtide said:
This is as bowie as an umbrella is...
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...piece of material that does enough of its intended job that no one can accuse them of "false advertising"?

I've handled a few 5.00 umbrellas Didn't keep my very dry for long. Should 30.00 bowies fit the same description?



Seems likely.
 
The blade shape is certainly not what springs to mind when I hear the word Bowie. I suppose if you use bowie in the sense that it just means "biggish knife"

Too bad, looks like they used to market pretty nice knives under the Estwing name.
 
It would be an umbrella from your tiki bar drink... and that'll keep part of your head dry...
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
They really should have done a stacked leather handle using their historical construction method with a Marbles-esque or puukko style blade.
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Yes! A 5.5” Marbles style blade with the same leather stack and end-cap as their hammers and hatchets and I’d own several tomorrow.
 
I’m pretty certain they decided this will be something they thought would catch the eye of a young son while at Home Depot who’s father was looking for an actual tool and that young lad would have to have this new crazy looking knife. Kinda like putting junk kids like at check out before you leave the store and they beg you to make a quick purchase. This one is all marketing to sell to the most ignorant or to the one who are die hard EastWing enthusiasts who will gladly get hit by that car for the experience.
 
That’s a bit dramatic.
It’s a cheap, tough knife. Maybe a whack with a hammer on the spine kind of knife. It should work well for it’s intended use. Which is prybar duty for non-knife people.
 
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I have an Estwing knife, the 6" tanto blade. I love it. It's a good, durable knife and with a bit of practice it throws accurately. I also have the Estwing machete, it beat the crap out of a Camilius I should not have bought, and a Bare Bones Japanese Nata. The Estwing machete is a decent thrower, too. I also have an Estwing Burpee, it's a geologic pick named for a natural history museum. It's fantastic, though the pretty blue metal flake is about gone. And I have two Estwing rock picks, also called hammers, a 14oz and a big face 24oz. I carry all these with me when I go rockhounding, and I don't regret buying any of them. When I first started collecting I had 'budget' tools, and they tore up or fell apart. The rock pick I started with was around twenty bucks, and one day while chipping away at a quartz crystal bearing boulder I found myself holding the vinyl handle while the pick itself flew away. When I picked it up it cut me, as the soft metal had become jagged. That's never happened with my Estwing tools. The little spur on the handle of the knife? It works great for punching holes in metal. I've got the blade where it'll shave the hair off my arm. It's a fine tool.

So make fun of the ugly ass knife, or any other of Estwings tools. Based on some of the comments I read, some of you are examples of the Kruger-Dunning Syndrome, that being someone who is too stupid to understand how stupid they are. And the comment to utah, asking if he'd come back to defend his knife, well, what would be the point? The fact he didn't tells me he knew enough about the people deriding his opinion to know it would be pointless. What a bunch of petty know-nothings you guys are.
 
You do realize this is a zombie thread and you're making a bitch about stuff written years ago? Says a lot about you too.
 
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