#186163 - 03/01/20 07:49 PM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
[Re: Chief]
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Those are AWESOME!!!!!!
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#186172 - 03/02/20 08:15 AM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
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Awesome Narwhal there Chief; great get!
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#186189 - 03/02/20 09:24 PM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
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Thanks guys I'm gonna wait till they get here & see if I'm gonna part with the butt cap one.
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#186192 - 03/02/20 09:37 PM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
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Awesome week to break those out.
Today, March 2 is Texas Independence Day.
Friday, March 6 is the 184th Anniversary of the fall of the Alamo.
There was a BIG knife like those you have that was in “vogue” in that time and place.
And,,, I think that the owner of said knife had come to Texas from Louisiana!
Just sayin’
Edited by coachblalock (03/02/20 09:41 PM)
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#186194 - 03/02/20 10:17 PM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
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Thought the Bowie knife came from Arkansas.
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#186212 - 03/03/20 08:26 PM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
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Thought the Bowie knife came from Arkansas.
Pap James Black the Blacksmith that made the original lived in Arkansas.
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#186215 - 03/03/20 09:01 PM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
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Jim Bowie came to a Texas from Louisiana.
You are correct in that the original knife was made in Arkansas.
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#186219 - 03/04/20 11:03 AM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
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According to history, the "original" original knife was made by a smithy on a plantation in Louisiana at the request of Rezin Bowie, who gave it to Jim after a run-in Jim had with somebody. Without checking on it, memory does not tell me for sure if it was one of the opponents at the later Sandbar fight, but I think it was.
Rezin wrote that first knife resembled a large kitchen knife.
According to legend, Jim later had a smithy in Arkansas make another knife to his specification...which historians and collectors speculate as to design details.
Rezin went on to have professional cutlers make a few known knives which were improvements on the Sandbar knife, and one of these can be seen at the Alamo.
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#186222 - 03/04/20 11:43 AM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
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Larry, You are correct! Rezin had the first one.
There was also a blacksmith in Texas named Noah Smithwick that made at least one for Jim Bowie and several identical knives for others.
Noah Smithwick had his daughter write a book for him (EVOLUTION OF A STATE) that tells about it and several other interesting things from the 1820s to the outbreak of the civil war in Texas.
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Edited by coachblalock (03/04/20 11:48 AM)
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#186299 - 03/08/20 08:02 AM
Re: Knife Of The Week Model 12, Part Deux
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Got this 12-9" this year from Gary Clinton... 
Edited by Matthias (03/08/20 08:06 AM)
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