Favorite custom fixed blade Style??

I've looked at that particular Bailey Bell Bowie for some time. I like the lines, but also, Bailey did a super job with the dark fittings. It all just came together very very well.

Roger, can't believe you let that go! In my mind, that was a keeper for sure.

Dave
 
30-30 Cal. said:
I've looked at that particular Bailey Bell Bowie for some time. I like the lines, but also, Bailey did a super job with the dark fittings. It all just came together very very well.

Roger, can't believe you let that go! In my mind, that was a keeper for sure.

Dave
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Murray's a LOT bigger than me. ;) Plus, since he only lives a short drive away, I still have visitation rights.

Roger
 
My favorite styles are carbon steel hunters and small bowies (5" blade). I do like large bowies and respect and admire the skill and work it takes to make one, I think they're impractical...not that I use much of my collection anyway :). I think the practical utility of a knife really adds something to it.

In terms of fittings and handle material, I prefer stainless and natural wood. In my opinion you can't beat walnut and stainless...maybe stainless and fossilized walrus ivory ;).
 
Bowies included.

Depends on the style of the maker.

Loveless style fighters.

I have two Imel Daggers that make my heart skip a beat.

I have a Wheeler Bowie on order that I think I am going to like very much.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
I seem to be in the Minority here but I really like the Loveless style Drop point Hunters in carbon steel. Just really like the way they look, feel, and perform. Recently had one made made by Ray Rogers that is my favorite knife right now.

I do use all of the knives in my collection so I do not have two many show pieces by definition although some of my daily use knives would be in others collectors show case.

Bob Urban

Bowies are awsome, just never found a real practical use for them.
 
My greatest love is the Scottish dirk -- not the great honking pieces of masculine jewelry nowadays worn with formal attire and called dirks, but the pre-Victorian "Jacobite era" ones. Here's one of mine, with blade a tad over 13 inches:

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Detail of the handle:

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A close second to the dirk, for me, is the bowie. Among bowies the Russo style has always been my favorite, though I like a number of others as well (Searles for example). In the last couple of weeks I've fallen in love with a production model coming out soon from Hanwei, a reproduction of one of the 14 surviving bowies made by Samuel Bell (see http://www.casiberia.com/cas_website/pdfs/009k.pdf).

It has a remarkably "Scottish dirk-looking" 11.75-inch blade, and it really appeals to me as a Scot by partial ancestry and a Texan by birth.

By the way, Bell -- like Bowie -- is a Scottish surname; does anyone have any idea whether Bell actually had Scottish dirks in mind with his designs?
 
Well, I think full size bowies are my favorites, but, smaller bowies are close behind, followed by Med Dirks, then fancy hunters. I'm very fond of Bailey's folding Bowies too. :)

Here is a dirk I wish had bought, by Daniel Ehrenberger, 10.25" blade, multi-bar damascus, ivory handle with damascus fittings, this thing was listed at $1200 if I recall correctly, a steal IMO. You can see just from the pics, it is a very well done dirk. (Blade Gallery Photos)

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