western w49 bowie question

[knifeaholic101]

on the western w49 bowie some are marked ww49 and some w49 is this any indication as to what steel was used?

 

[Mike Hull]

You might try this in the Bernard Levine forum under the general forums heading, or the blade discussion forum under the same heading.

 

[Ilovetoolsteel]

on the western w49 bowie some are marked ww49 and some w49 is this any indication as to what steel was used?

That's just the model number, the number is the same for the earlier carbon and later stainless knives.

The early knives were 1095 if I recall correctly. Sometime in the early 1990's they went to stainless, I believe it was 420 stainless.

 

[knifeaholic101]

thanks for all the info. do you happen to know when they started putting the western logo on the sheath?