Traditional Bowie

search for "brass back" bowie. You'll find some around here. Have you looked in the Custom & Handmade sub-forum? it's about 50% handmade bowies by modern masters.
 
daizee said:
search for "brass back" bowie. You'll find some around here. Have you looked in the Custom & Handmade sub-forum? it's about 50% handmade bowies by modern masters.
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I haven't looked here, but I first find a company(Carolina bowies) and think I'm gonna get a great "Bowie"

Wish I could afford silver and ivory...
 
Should I get a coffin? Seems the real Bowie's have them

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nhyrum said:
Should I get a coffin? Seems the real Bowie's have them

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If you like them you should.

But they aren't what the Bowie brothers had made. They did become popular after the sandbar duel...even though one wasn't commissioned by the Bowies.

BTW..all the James Black stuff is also hooey.
 
Everyone believes the part of the legend that they want.
The only eye witness account at the sandbar brawl used the words "big butcher knife" and that is open for speculation, since butcher knives now don't look like butcher knives then.
The knife above looks more like a French chef to me...
I'd have thought a big curved butcher's cimeter.
http://www.webstaurantstore.com/vic...ogleShopping&gclid=CMHtwsLby80CFYQ8gQodW98Fgg
Then there are the post brawl knives as the legend grew.
Improvements were made, commissions were done and gifts were given.

I'm a big fan of the guard less coffin handle so I'm going with the James Black tale...

Its all fun to speculate :)
 
I do like those cimeter Bowie's...

Anyway. I'm glad for my soon to be made knife

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Ebbtide said:
Everyone believes the part of the legend that they want.
The only eye witness account at the sandbar brawl used the words "big butcher knife" and that is open for speculation, since butcher knives now don't look like butcher knives then.
The knife above looks more like a French chef to me...
I'd have thought a big curved butcher's cimeter.
http://www.webstaurantstore.com/vic...ogleShopping&gclid=CMHtwsLby80CFYQ8gQodW98Fgg
Then there are the post brawl knives as the legend grew.
Improvements were made, commissions were done and gifts were given.

I'm a big fan of the guard less coffin handle so I'm going with the James Black tale...

Its all fun to speculate :)
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Sure, but there is documentation. And I do agree it was a beefed up butcher knife meets South American punal meets Mediterranean dagger.

Of course it only matters if one is interested in the sandbar knife.

And one does not have to be. :thumbup:

One might be interested in the Alamo knife. Beats me what that was, and I'm not interested!

Its all about what you are into.
 
Feel free to point me to said documentation.
Beyond the sentence with "big butcher knife"

Always willing to learn more.

Here's one tale that doesn't see much net time, from the NY Times late 1800s - early 1900s
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E6DE1630E033A25756C2A9659C94659ED7CF

A man about 5 feet 7 inches in stature, named James Bowie, had made as knife of peculiar pattern very famous by reason of the deadly manner in which it was wielded.
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"of a peculiar pattern"

the thick plottens :D
 
article-urn:publicid:ap.org:0817de91aad94a7c99c6fea8c1b603db-6TfeYMy02HSK2-374_634x477.jpg
Phil Collins holds a Bowie knife that belonged to Jesse Robinson who fought under Jim Bowie at the Battle of Concepcion and the Siege of Bexar in San Antonio

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The collection includes this brass back Bowie knife, an original that Jim Bowie had in his possession during the battle

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Buck is now producing the 916 Bowie. Good looking knife. Large knife under build your own section.
 
The knife man in the family wasn't Jim Bowie really, it was his his brother Rezin. Rezin was the man who invented it, and passed it on to his brother. If one looks at the knives that are attributed of having the closest connection to Rezin, they are all straight back or lightly trail pointed, with just various degrees of fanciful adornment -

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tltt said:
The knife man in the family wasn't Jim Bowie really, it was his his brother Rezin. Rezin was the man who invented it, and passed it on to his brother. If one looks at the knives that are attributed of having the closest connection to Rezin, they are all straight back or lightly trail pointed, with just various degrees of fanciful adornment -

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Yes, from what I've been reading, that is true

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As for the brass back? Most folks that aren't given to school boy flights of fancy laugh at it. Most of the Brass Back lore seems to have started in the 40's - 50's, when books like Thorpe's Bowie Knife, Peterson's American Knives, etc...., and movies like "The Iron Mistress" were touting giant flashy Bowies. Some historians feel that the brass back myth is a take off on the fact that one of the Searles Bowies has a gold escutcheon plate inlaid into the back -

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