Large Bowie Build.

Scott Hanson

Scott Hanson

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Finally got back into my shop today after a long time off doing string of home improvement projects all Spring long, so now that the major stuff is handle I can start working on knives again.

Anyhow I got a large Bowie blade rough ground to 50 grit today, this one is most likely spoken for through a customer here Blade Forums. The plan is to build it with a crown stag handle per customer request. The blade is rough ground but not to the final dimension yet it's 1/4" 5160 it's going to be 11" long by 1 3/4" wide, I still have to sharpen the clip also. Not sure what I'm going to do for a sheath, I want to do something different, I may look into some an inlay of some kind buffalo maybe, any sheath ideas are welcome.

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Got a bit more done last night on the Bowie knife blade, still a bit rough, it's at about a 220 grit right now. I need to a bit more work to the clip and riccaso area before stamping my name in it and sending it out for heat treating. This blade is lighter than I thought it would be, right now the blade is 12.5 ounces, it's probably going to lose a couple more ounces in the tang area for handle fitting and end up right around 18-20 ounces when it's finished.

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tinfoil hat timmy said:
super nice looking. Cant wait
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Thank you, it's going to have a crown stag and leather washer handle, but for this one I'm thinking about using the original vulcanized fiber spacer material instead of the G10, I think the fiber spacers have a little warmer look to them. Also I'm thinking a nickel silver guard and accent spacers as well.
 
Mack said:
Interested to see how this project is going.
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That one is going to be next, not sure what I'm going to do with the handle yet, I'm thinking maybe a nice piece of Red stag maybe.
 
Mack said:
That sounds great. Something with an interesting spacer stack I assume.
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Thinking about something like this. This what I'm going to call my Survivor pattern, I made and gave a knife with this exact pattern to a friend who was diagnosed with cancer 5 years ago and has remain cancer free so far. I just have to make a sheath for it now. But this what I've been thinking about for the big Bowie knife. This is one of my favorite patterns.

This will be my personal hunting knife.

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This is the original one I gave my friend five years ago.

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Scott Hanson said:
Thinking about something like this. This what I'm going to call my Survivor pattern, I made and gave a knife with this exact pattern to a friend who was diagnosed with cancer 5 years ago and has remain cancer free so far. I just have to make a sheath for it now. But this what I've been thinking about for the big Bowie knife. This is one of my favorite patterns.

This will be my personal hunting knife.

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This is the original one I gave my friend five years ago.

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Well it doesn't get a whole lot better than that.
 
Well I finally got the big Bowie and sheath done, Blade is 5160 heat treated to HRc-60, and slightly more than 10 1/2" long and a 1/4" thick, IIRC weight of the knife is around 24 ounces. The handle is white tail crown with stacked leather a musk ox spacer. The sheath is cow hide with a bark mammoth ivory arrowhead on the front of it, an idea I borrowed from Roger Mudbone Jones. Roger is a knife that also make some sheaths for Behring made knives.

Next project will be a 9" dagger out of the same 5160 also heat treated to HRc-60.

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