Long knives pics

brownie0486

brownie0486

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I have several digital pics I took of my one of a kind longer blades including several Bagwells, an Ed Fowler, an old mountain man bowie made in Montana from a car leaf srping in the 30's and the " Brown Bowie " I had made to my specs which was photgraphed at a NYCustom knife show many years ago by the maker before he sent it to me andwas published in one of the knife rags later that year.

If someone would like to host the pics for others viewing, let me know. I've been asked to show em, but I do not have the resources to do so here.

Brownie
 
If we aren't talking about a large amount of storage I should be able to host the pictures for you. Email them to me and I'll put them up where you can reference them from here.

--Bob Q
 
Email sent with pics Bob
Use what you think is best.
Most are small files.
Looking forward to seeing what they look like on the web.
Brownie
 
Well,
Bob was nice enough to sponsor these pics.

Once they are up I'll narrate them so everyone can understand the length, etc.

http://www.october.com/x/brownie_bagwells.jpg

This stag bowie at the top is a circa 1965 stag handled Bagwell Bowie, the first year he made knives. It has a 10" blade, brass guard and end cap. The second knife is a Bagwell Hells Belle made for me by Bill Bagwell and delivered after a two year wait in 1999.

http://www.october.com/x/brownie_bagwell_belle_damascus.jpg

This damascus bowie is actually Mike Sastre's Bagwell Damascus Belle which is the sister/brother of my Bagwell damascus bowie delivered Feb.04 after a two year wait. Mikes, pictured here, was made immediately after mine and is 3/4" shorter than the one delivered to me which has an 11 1/4" blade.

http://www.october.com/x/brownie_bagwell_hunter_damascus.jpg

This is a damascus hunter by Bill Bagwell

http://www.october.com/x/brownie_bagwell_stag.jpg

This picture is the same stag handled knife as it appears in the first url. It was taken from the website where I bought the knife a few months ago.

http://www.october.com/x/brownie_brown_bowie.jpg

The bottom knife with it's edge facing up is my "Brown Bowie" made by J. D. Malloy of Pennsylvania. It is D-2, 12 inch blade by 2 1/2" wide with a handle of black linen micarta and nickel silver spacers and 316 stainless guards. It is flat ground. This was made for me in 1988 and was featured at the NY Custom knife show that year as well as professionally photographed there before being submitted to a major knife rag where it appeared 6 months later.

The bowie above it is a handmade blade made from a leaf spring from a Model A sometime in the 1930's by a mountain man in Montana. It sports a 13 inch blade, razor sharp, with walnut slabs for handles, it's full tang with brass fittings.

http://www.october.com/x/brownie_long_knives.jpg

This is a compilation of the custom long knives I have collected and had made for me over the years of collecting these big boys. From the top:

Bagwell Stag handled bowie 1965
My Damascus Belle fighter
My Belle fighter
The Damascus Hunter by Bagwell
The mountain man bowie from Montana
Ed Fowler, 52100 blade steel, sheep horn handled
The "Brown Bowie"

Hope everyone enjoys the pics. Let me know what you think.

Bob, I appreciate the sponsoring of these pics on your site. Thank you sir.

Brownie
 
Those Bagwells are awesome. I can't imagine waiting 2 years for a knife.

I really like the "Mountain Man" bowie. What's the story on that one? How did it come to be in your collection?
 
ElectricZombie:

Both Bagwell fighter Belles were a two year wait.

The mountain bowie, as the story was told to me by an older gent who sold it to me roughly 20 yrs ago, is that his grandfather hailed from Montana and lived in a cabin in the mountains as a recluse.

He came into town a few times a year for supplies by horse and picked up a leaf spring from a Model A to make the knife back at his cabin as he had broken his.

His father was given the knife by the grandfather and had it chrome plated as it was getting pretty pitted at that time. It was passed to him upon his fathers death.

The escutchen that can be seen on the right slab of walnut has his fathers initials on it which the father had done when he came into possession of the knife.

Unfortunately I did not get the seller to write that down at the time as I was not as savvy as today with getting the provenance of the older blades documented when possible.

The edge is rough ground to a razor edge, on what would appear to be some form of grinding wheel and most likely was accomplished by the sellers dad when he came into possesion of the knife.

Brownie
 
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