Pretty lines mate. Love the blade and handle geometry. I'll say it again: you've come a long way, and yet you retain your rustic style, which is great. A pleasure to watch as always!
Very nice knife. Too many people try to make a Bowie into a utilitarian or all-purpose knife, which it is not. A Bowie is a fighting knife. When they try to make it heavier and broader for a camp knife or a chopper it is at best Bowiesque, meaning it somewhat resembles a bowie. Also, a bowie is designed for a certain style of fighting. One of the most effective moves with a bowie is the back cut. A back cut is done with a flick of the wrist from a high held position. To me, this works better if the blade is slightly heavier than the handle to help give extra momentum. Also, if the handle is too long, it will strike your wrist during a back cut. I like the handle no more than two fingers width longer than the width of my palm. This is in no way derogatory toward your knife, which as I said is very nice. I like it a lot. The only this I would change would be to shorten the handle, but that is just my personal taste.
The bottom bend in the guard takes away a bit of your blade use. Just shortening the bottom portion of the guard being so close would it be better to do a s guard instead other than that it looks great every blade you make your improving and thats nice to see keep going and just enjoy.
I hope he read your comment. I want one of these, but that correction to the guard has to be made. It can be done without it being an 'S' guard. It just needs to be shorter and more narrow in profile, like the original design.
Looked at a bunch of videos on Utube about Bowie Blade profile, so so definitions of what the Bowie is, and see how you have been strongly influenced We know what Bowied Knife cult is now, but not what James Bowie had during and right after his duel in 1827, IMO Spanish and Mexican knife profiles is source of Bowie genealogy
I love your work but I hate that cross guard with a passion, just the thought of trying to sharpen that knife with it in the way, spikes my blood pressure. Pretty much guarantees it's gonna be a wall hanger and see almost no use.
Hey Phil: Sorry buddy,. but I HATE this ASMR??? (whatever that means) format. I want people to talk when making videos. :~)))) Dave Proprietor of: The Mountain Man Emporium
why should he say a thing when you can see just what he is doing and you cnat do that i can and dont know a thing about knife making and i know just what he is doing
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Pretty lines mate. Love the blade and handle geometry. I'll say it again: you've come a long way, and yet you retain your rustic style, which is great. A pleasure to watch as always!
Thank you sir!
The way you forge in your tip without getting fishlips is legit!
Beautiful Knife ...👍
Nice piece
Sweet blade !!!
Awesome Phil!
Good job ! keep on keeping on !!
Very cool bowie😎👍🏻. I kinda liked this style of a video althought I first waited your commenting. I always enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing these
1:17 DUDE awesome way to forge in the clip, totally wanna try it.
Very nice knife. Too many people try to make a Bowie into a utilitarian or all-purpose knife, which it is not. A Bowie is a fighting knife. When they try to make it heavier and broader for a camp knife or a chopper it is at best Bowiesque, meaning it somewhat resembles a bowie. Also, a bowie is designed for a certain style of fighting. One of the most effective moves with a bowie is the back cut. A back cut is done with a flick of the wrist from a high held position. To me, this works better if the blade is slightly heavier than the handle to help give extra momentum. Also, if the handle is too long, it will strike your wrist during a back cut. I like the handle no more than two fingers width longer than the width of my palm. This is in no way derogatory toward your knife, which as I said is very nice. I like it a lot. The only this I would change would be to shorten the handle, but that is just my personal taste.
The bottom bend in the guard takes away a bit of your blade use. Just shortening the bottom portion of the guard being so close would it be better to do a s guard instead other than that it looks great every blade you make your improving and thats nice to see keep going and just enjoy.
I hope he read your comment. I want one of these, but that correction to the guard has to be made. It can be done without it being an 'S' guard. It just needs to be shorter and more narrow in profile, like the original design.
The finnish on the blade and the dark wood off the handle make the brass pins come out nicely. It has a realy rustic style. I like it man!!!
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Looked at a bunch of videos on Utube about Bowie Blade profile, so so definitions of what the Bowie is, and see how you have been strongly influenced
We know what Bowied Knife cult is now, but not what James Bowie had during and right after his duel in 1827, IMO Spanish and Mexican knife profiles is source of Bowie genealogy
Худшего изготовления ножа я его не видел. Техника исполнения просто писец полный. А так дизайн мне нравится, аутентичный Боуи.гарда под вопросом.
I love your work but I hate that cross guard with a passion, just the thought of trying to sharpen that knife with it in the way, spikes my blood pressure. Pretty much guarantees it's gonna be a wall hanger and see almost no use.
Hey Phil:
Sorry buddy,. but I HATE this ASMR??? (whatever that means) format. I want people to talk when making videos. :~))))
Dave
Proprietor of:
The Mountain Man Emporium
Lol fair enough
why should he say a thing when you can see just what he is doing and you cnat do that i can and dont know a thing about knife making and i know just what he is doing
Very clean! nice work Phil.............
Beautiful work! Great to see a new video from you.
Which is exactly the origin of the name of the knife:"Hell's Bell"?
I believe that was the model name of a Bill Bagwell design.
@@PhilBaumhardt Thanks