Paul Chen Bowie Knives

[Dale Seago]

I need a knife sheath, not an exercise machine.

I feel your pain.

Something you could try is wrapping something flat and thin -- popsicle stick, table knife blade, something like that -- with very coarse-grit sandpaper and working the interior of the sheath to abrade some of the leather out of it, until it's a loose enough fit to suit you..

 

[W.T. Beck]

Good idea. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

 

[Dale Seago]

If I may borrow Dale Seago's comments from SwordForum, here is the best summary of the Gen. 2 version of the Musso Bowie:

Originally Posted by Dale Seago
Fighting knives were commonly carried in Bowie's day. But there is something about the overall shape of this knife that says to me that if the Musso Bowie is not the knife James Bowie actually carried in his final days, it should have been. It definitely gives the effect mentioned by Davy Crockett in one of his diary entries early in the Alamo siege:

"While we were conversing, Colonel Bowie had occasion to draw his famous knife, and I wish I may be shot if the bare sight of it wasn't enough to give a man of a squeamish stomach the colic, especially before breakfast."

Oops:

Unfortunately, the "autobiography" in which that Crockett "quote" appears was actually written by Richard Penn Smith very soon after Crockett’s death, so we’re faced with the possibility, even the likelihood, that the remark is spurious in its attribution to Crockett.

From:

http://www.texianlegacy.com/danereviews.html#musso