Genes "Bump" knives going to the Oregon Show

[Bruce Bump]

One of my collectors asked me to sell his 4 knives he has bought over the years from me. I'm taking them to the Eugene Oregon Show to have on my table. They are in "Mint" condition although a few years or more old. Please stop by and have a look.

First is a Bill Moran Tribute bowie. Made the year he passed away.

This is the "Cowboy Boot Dagger" with stabil koa mortised tang, nickel silver and forged 1084. It has a belt finish on the hollows.

The English dogbone bowie w/hard sheath. All nickel silver fittings with Jere Davidson engraving front and back in his rare to find "English Scrolls"

And last but not least the "Original Vigilante Bowie" Take down construction, BladeWest winner for fixed blade catagory in 2008.
Forged W2 w/hamon and a Claude Scott sheath, checkering by Blaine Barlow on african blackwood handle.

 

[RogerP]

Niiice. Sure wish I could give that Vigilante Bowie a new home.

Roger

 

[butcher_block]

that Vigilante sure is sexy but for sure not a thing i could buy

 

[Albert Edmonds]

All are great but that English dogbone is really something special! I love the blade profile and detailed, robust handle. That's one serious knife!

 

[Bruce Bump]

All are great but that English dogbone is really something special! I love the blade profile and detailed, robust handle. That's one serious knife!

Thanks Albert,
It's one of my favorite Bowies and was interesting to make. It's a full tang but the dog bone pommel was too wide to install the guard so I cut a wedge out of the tang end and squeezed it together to slide the guard over it and than replaced the wedge. The front and rear bolsters are drilled and pinned in place. That's my first handle inlay and first leather covered wood sheath with throat and tip.

 

[jdm61]

Nice pieces, sir!!! I got to meet Bill Moran a couple of times early on in my journey to black booger nirvana. I had an attempt at a rough ground ST23 blade that never made it to completion that I showed him at Old Washington in the fall of 2005, and he told me to keep of the good work. He also said that the ST23 was probably one of the trickiest of his more commonly seen designs to get right. Looks like you figured it out pretty well.