Schrade Bowie Project

[textoothpk]

This knife has been discussed here before. Probably the most elaborate version was the jewel-adorned one made for Popular Mechanics magazine. Expensive. It's a fine knife, but I thought it was a little plain. First project was a new sheath. Although Paul is who I consider our offical schrade forum sheathmaker, I made a good deal with a leather crafter in my knife club; a sheath for a knife. I gave him no instruction, just turned him loose, only specifying I wanted a 'guard type' strap. I think you'll agree he did a nice job for me. Note the interesting top of the belt loop... well, no, it is not a belt loop per se, not the way he put it together. I forgot to ask him for Brass hardware, but he went ahead and did it anyway so as to match the furniture on the knife.

As the photo shows, the knife was a bit plain. The thing took a trip to Texas for the beautiful engraving now adorning it. Here is the artists' website. Mike Pardue is a fine, fine guy, you can count on him to do excellent work. Just like with the sheath, just like I always ask of an artist I am dealing with, I gave him no instructions, just told him to use his own good judgement. I'm happy.

http://www.parduesilversmith.com/about.html

I did consider having the piece re-handled, was thinking white or ivory micarta. But I like the wood, and didn't want to stray too far from what Schrade intended of this knife. Not done with the knife yet. One more little project, but had to show it off to you guys.

Phil

 

[El Lobo]

That is really nice Phil.

Some excellent work in that package.

Bill

 

[glennbad]

Dang, that is sweet!

Now cut it out!! I can't take it anymore. Looking at all these beautiful knives. Look, I want to be able to put my kid through college, and with you guys always tempting me, I may end up selling my own blood to buy knives.

What's the current per-pint price for O pos?

Seriously, Phil, very nice piece.

Glenn

 

[textoothpk]

Thank ya boys, thank ya... Bill has seen and commented about this knfe before, as I posted a pic of it over in AllAboutPocketKnives.com. You will recall the warm welcome those guys gave us when this site was down and we didn't know if it was coming back. That is where I found a very interesting sub-forum about customizing production knives, and found Mike Pardue as well.

 

[orvet]

Nice Phil.
I really like the sheath. It is interesting how he made the belt loop.

Dale

 

[w5rwu]

Thank you for posting this very nice knife you should be proud of it .also thanks for the link of the silversmith i also have 1 of the TEXAS BOWIE knives and after seeing yours I think I will give Mr.PARDUE a call and see what he can do for mine!
thks Randy

 

[Codger_64]

I love tooled/engraved knives. Here is a composite picture of a Golden Spike from the Irv Tractenberg collection. I forget who the engraver was. But I love this style work!


Codger