Can a Newbie wear this...

[flatapple]

Being a newbie to the sport of CAS, can I put this on my belt and not be drummed out?

[Camano Ridge]

No, it is forbidden. Send it to me and I will dispoe of it for you. There should not be a problem, Coffin handle or coke bottle handle (looks like a cross between the two) are apropriate. The question is what do you have for a sheath? Since the handle and the sheath are about the only thing anyone else will see.

[Forty Rod]

Don't listen to him Flat.  He lives underwater in the Puget Sound and he'll just get it all rusty.

Send it to me.  I'm moving to Arizona where it's as dry as a popcorn fart.  I'll give it a good home, I promise.  

[ChuckBurrows]

as others have noted style wise it's a good copy of a period Sheffield - if the blade is stainless it is "technically" incorrect but for most CAS activities tain't no one gonna say nothing....

[dwight55]

They may not have the resources or the proper licenses and authority to manufacture a proper leather sheath for it.

Send it to me, . . . I'll research it properly, . . . get a committee to make sure, . . . grain feed the steer for the leather, . . . and call you when it is done.

May God bless,
Dwight

PS: Beautiful Knife, . . . wear it proudly !!!!

[flatapple]

You are all so kind.  Thanks for the encouragement.

[Forty Rod]

Strange enough here for you?   

[Forty Rod]

Strange enough here for you?   

[The Elderly Kid]

Looks like a pretty good replica of a Samuel Bell Bowie. Bell, of Knoxville, TN, specialized in slim Bowies with (usually) coffin handles and blades resembling the Scottish dirk, often with ornamental filework on the spine. Yours looks like a good one.

[GunClick Rick]

It's got the treeth on the back for figfhtin,you can grab your aponents blade,especially if that side of the guard is bent or curled over.Get one of these from Amazon..

[santee]

"Dry as a popcorn fart." Forty, you kill me.

[Forty Rod]

Well...... if you really want me to.   

[Gabriel Law]

Your knife looks like a relative of mine, pictured above.  Mine is a Sam Bell copy by Hanwei.  I replaced the scabbard pictured with one of my own made 'ensuite' with my gun rig.  Wear it if you like, but I'm here to tell ya', two six shooters, 25 rounds of .45 LC and a big Bowie keeps a fellow well anchored, not to mention the 14 round 12 gauge belt.

[Shotgun Franklin]

We don't discourage big knives, on occasion we have a cake or brownies and then they come in handy.

[dwight55]

We don't discourage big knives, on occasion we have a cake or brownies and then they come in handy.

Do I sense some kind of discrimination or bigotry against apple pie?  Cherry pie?  Peach pie?   

We cannot let something like that surface and / or take hold.

May God bless,
Dwight

[Shotgun Franklin]

You bring one and I'll help eat it. 

[Messerist]

Mmmmm brownies! p.s. nice Bowie!   

[GunClick Rick]

Don't listen to him Flat.  He lives underwater in the Puget Sound and he'll just get it all rusty.

Send it to me.  I'm moving to Arizona where it's as dry as a popcorn fart.  I'll give it a good home, I promise.  

Make that two popcorn farts 

[Bruce W Sims]

OK...not to offend...but about how thick is that blade?

I'm thinking that a blade that long would have to be pretty substantial if
it was intended to be put to practical use. Otherwise, wouldn't that just be
the equivalent of an oversized steak knife?  I'm thinking that most period
knives would have to be able to be pressed into service as some sort of camp knife, right?
Thoughts?

Best Wishes,

Bruce 

[1961MJS]

Hi

I've been reading a LOT of knife books the past two years.  The last one was Volume 2 of The Shining Time put out by Track of the Wolf.  It appears that buffalo hunters carried butcher knives.  In general, EVERYBODY did.  I also read Carl Russel's book on Mountain Man equipment, most of the pictures in it were butcher knives too.  I don't think that our ancestors used knives as pry bars as much as we tend to though.

Just my $0.02 and worth damn near that much.  I just glued up an 8 inch Green River butcher knife to some Maple scales for my 27 year old boy.  I'm also working on the scabbard for my Cumberland Bowie,