Why Doesn't Somebody Make a Dundee Knife?

[coyotebc]

My only bowie

 

[Bushman5]

I have wanted a movie knife for decades now. It a amazes me that no manufacturer has cashed in on the iconic bowie of Crocodile Dundee. I can get a Rambo knife. I can get an Iron Mistress. Linder's Croc Hunter is close, but has the wrong blade shape. Then there is the one that used to be called the Jungle Ranger or some such that ebay sells now as a Crocodile Dundee knife. It is close, but not quite. I use knives. But some I just like to have displayed for the fun of it. Dundee's knife sure would look good on a bowie stand on my book case. I don't even care if it is 420 J2, just so it has the Case Bowie blade shape, only longer, with a fuller, thick curved single finger guard, leather handle, and large pommel. Somebody, please go make one!

I agree, but i want mine to be functional. so it would be best if SCRAPYARD made it.

nuff said!

 

[EricV]

Wasn't there a review on the down under blade in Blade magazine or tactical knives this past year? My issues are all strewn about or thrown out to too changing rooms twice in the last two months or I'd go look.

 

[j man]

The real Dundee knife ,Made its first apearence in a "MadMax" movie. I will hve to find the Australian shooting magazine and post it here . There was a intervew with the maker in it.

 

[Tinbasher]

I made the big one in the picture before the Dundee movie's came out

I could replace the handle with leather but because it was only my third knife it will stay as is.
Richard

 

[kwackster]

The big bowie Paul Hogan used in the Crocodile Dundee movies was designed by John Bowring, who was also a licensed Puma repairman.
This is the actual knife that the movie version was inspired by, a Puma 6376 Bowie, and it's a vintage example made in 1978 from my own collection.
In mint condition complete with sheath and wooden box these currently go for around 900 US dollars.

Specs:

Steel: Genuine Pumaster Steel (hot forged & hardchromed high carbon steel)
Blade length: 8,0 inch (20,0 cm)
Blade thickness: 6,6 mm
Hardness according to accompanying booklet: 57-61 HRC
Handle material: Sambar Stag
Handle length with guard: 5,0 inches (12,5 cm)
Overall length: 12,8 inch (32,5 cm)
Weight: 413 gram
Built: Oktober 1978

 

[Horn Dog]

I agree, but i want mine to be functional. so it would be best if SCRAPYARD made it.

nuff said!

The knife is every bit as functional as my Scrap Yard Dog Father unless the function is chopping concrete blocks. My swamp knife has been the DFLE, but I have many others that are useful down there. But as a collector, I wanted a bowie as close to the one in the movie as possible, and this one from Down Under Knives is it. In truth, I have found few, if any, knives as useful in the swamps where I go as a good cheap machete.

 

[hiwa]

I discovered this knife also last year. Thanks for the review Horndog. If I seriously wanted a knife of this style being a large bowie , I'd go for the SOG Creed. At Least SOG is up front with where their knives are made and do have a significant reputation as a knife company.
I am a big fan of Crocodile Dundee movies though , and every time he pulls that knife out it gets a crack outta me

 

[Horn Dog]

Just to give folks an idea of the size of the Outback, here it is next to a Puma Bowie.

Now that's a knife!

 

[mqqn]

The real Dundee knife ,Made its first apearence in a "MadMax" movie. I will hve to find the Australian shooting magazine and post it here . There was a intervew with the maker in it.

Hi j man -

I would love to read that story if you can find it!

kwakster - Sweet pics - I have an Original Bowie, but it is newer than your model -

Almost identical specs, although mine is not referred to as Pumaster steel on the blade.

Tinbasher - Very cool looking bowie - nice job!

I can remember reading about the original prop-knife from the movie. It had a polished aluminum blade and was strictly a prop knife that was (as I recall) made for the movie. It was sold about 10 years ago for a princely sum at auction, and there have been no official replicas of that original prop knife that I have ever been able to dredge up in google over the years, and I have tried.

All of that is just my thoughts and recollections and not based in fact - just stuff I read over the years.

best regards -

mqqn

 

[NixKustoms]

Great, now I'm gonna have to watch that movie.

But really though; I've wanted one of those since I first saw that movie way back when. Did you see the other knives Mic has? That folder he was packing in the third one (I think) where he destroyed that fake anaconda. That would be awesome to have also.

 

[Horn Dog]

I got this from Imperial Enterprises website on famous bowies. I don't know the author.

For “Crocodile” Dundee, Bowring only made two steel versions of the Dundee Bowie, and several highly polished aluminum-bladed knives for safe use on the sets. One of the steel knives was used for the close-up shots, such as the scene with the would-be mugger, while the aluminum blades were used anytime Dundee put any motion behind the knife. After the film wrapped, the two steel knives were given to the movie’s writers, Paul Hogan and his friend John Cornell. Both men vowed never to sell their knives, under any circumstances.

Both men stuck to their word, but that has not stopped them from offering up a few of the aluminum-bladed Bowies for auction. The last Dundee Bowie to make it to auction was on June 19, 2005, offered by Australian auctioneers Bonhams + Goodman. The knife was valued between $7,500 and $15,000.

 

[termiteslayer]

The big bowie Paul Hogan used in the Crocodile Dundee movies was designed by John Bowring, who was also a licensed Puma repairman.
This is the actual knife that the movie version was inspired by, a Puma 6376 Bowie, and it's a vintage example made in 1978 from my own collection.
In mint condition complete with sheath and wooden box these currently go for around 900 US dollars.

Specs:

Steel: Genuine Pumaster Steel (hot forged & hardchromed high carbon steel)
Blade length: 8,0 inch (20,0 cm)
Blade thickness: 6,6 mm
Hardness according to accompanying booklet: 57-61 HRC
Handle material: Sambar Stag
Handle length with guard: 5,0 inches (12,5 cm)
Overall length: 12,8 inch (32,5 cm)
Weight: 413 gram
Built: Oktober 1978

I can see a practical value in the saw/serration part of the edge.
If Spyderco, Kershaw and others followed suit a hell of a lot of woodworkers would be very happy. If they do have these options then I've missed 'em, SAK aside.