Jim Bowie Would Love This Masterpiece! 

Absolutely!

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Boo-ees too.

Ya those are great blades and Joker bring a lot of value/quality to the table

@@gideonstactical They really do.

May I ask what knife you're talking about? I'm interested

@@craigwagner3791 Joker CC96

All I've read is that it was a 12 inch full tang with an integral finger guard, single piece manufactured stag handle with mosaic pins and red liners, clip point, composite blade with 3v spine and M390 edge, compound grind throughout the length for different purposes. The sheath was leather with a kydex core. Had multiple mounting options. I don't know if that's accurate. Just what folks have said.

@@Chris-eo9kh -A true outdoorsman, indeed.

@@mattkandel2449 G'day Matt, thats not right, ......... the liners were white to start with, ...... must've been all the blood stains. Cheers Duke.

It was probably more the style of what we would just call a "chef's knife" today. That's what the blade looked like, but many of these knives were quite fancily made! A gorgeous example is the so-called "Perkins Bowie", if you want to look it up.

@@andreweden9405 G'day Andrew, thanks mate, I did look 'em up. There's a shipload of wow factor in that lot ...... like ..... every one ; ). I've gotta double the prices to convert to AUD, but even then, gotta wonder how they do them so cheap. Cheers Duke.

Thanks so much, this would be an awesome choice

Enjoy!

G'day mate, yep for sure, technically one cant call anything a Bowie job with absolute certainty. I'm just going with the term for the sake of a common label for this style. Cheers Duke.

It likely looked like an 18th century French butcher knife, which was a coffin handle, guard-less knife with somewhat of a leaf-shaped blade; a far cry from how it was portrayed in 20th century media, which used mid-late 19th century designs (the notorious guard+clip point), like the Wade&Butcher bowie. The original bowie probably looked something like the Bark River Rogue bowie.

@@certamen832 G'day mate, yep I agree very likely along those lines, besides I'd bet that the ol' Jim had more than one over his lifetime ; ). In any event, it does make ya wonder how it got from that, to what we identify with today, seems to me creative license has introduced a bit of sword influence from way back when ; ) Cheers Duke.

Awesome, thank you!

It’d be great if they improved the handle and sheaths on the TM. At that price too, a knife like that deserves better handle/sheath materials than the ones they use for their budget lines.

Thanks so much!!

Wow! Thanks so much for the years of support!!!

No problem!

Thanks 🔥

Thank you so much, my friend. Welcome to the GT crew. Feel free to ask a question and I might be able to answer it in an upcoming video.

Bow-E is the correct pronunciation.

No, technically it’s “boo-ee”, but who cares.

Totally agree!

That’s a nice trio.

Very cool gift!!

amzn.to/4cC1xWk here is the direct link

That would be awesome

Is it a Blackjack/Randall?

They make stacked leather bowies in this size range, like the NL1 and NL2; same steel (vg-10, which is basically the same), but like $600.

Hahahahah

My pleasure!!

Good to know!

Yeah, that’s a big upgrade

Yeah, the Junglas is a similar size. I probably should’ve done the Becker BK9 maybe would be even closer.

Hahah!!! I get it, this one is beautiful and well built

M7 is a beast

That’s the 6” version, look for the 9”; they have it on the official website and I think they do international shippings.

A lot of people would argue against this. I have owned a joker 4116 and it was ok. I’ve been testing my knives on pine kindling and 440c is competitive against the other steels. However one dc53 is great and the other dc53 is crap. Heat treatment here or one is not dc53…. Possible. I think the Bowie knife is over priced and there are better options for that price.

@@michaelwaldeck7081 It is material fact that 440C is much loweer in toughness than 12C27M.

and a good steel choice

They are not sold out. I am sure they will be back soon.

@@gideonstactical thanks brother

Recon scout for the performance, this bowie for the looks; although n695 is a pretty decent performer itself, it’s no 3v, but if the synthetic materials on the TM are what keeps you away I’d say this bowie is a great compromise.

The currently made trailmasters have either better blade geometry (convex) and same steel (san mai iii, very similar), or same blade geometry but better steel (3v). The handles and sheaths on the trailmasters are crappy plastic/nylon; and they’re more expensive depending on where you live.

Yeah, I’m not sure about the name either. Very interesting. But the name shouldn’t distract from capability and usage.

It does has that gas station knife name but I don't think gas stations can sell fixed blades.

Who cares about the name, if it’s a cool and functional knife it may even be called pee-pee-poo-poo knife, I’m on board.

Great knife but really expensive.

I feel like this steel is perfect for this type of knife, good attention durability ease of re-sharpening.

@@gideonstactical You feel wrong. This steel cannot withstand the lateral stresses that will be placed on a bowie knife in the field. It is also very hard to resharpen.

That’s all steel-snob jargon; something like 440c being labelled as “inferior” goes in no one’s favor except to those who are trying to sell you over-priced steels with negligible if not absent “advantages”; for the vast majority of uses, 440c is objectively a great steel, both chemically and practically; the people berating it online are simply keyboard warriors and backyard survivalists that baby their knives and live online. Go out, use your tools, and you’ll realize how full of crap all of these claims made by “experts” tryina sell you something, or paid by companies, are.

@@certamen832 It's called an education in metallurgy. Also combined with 4 years in the Marines using various steels in the field. 440C proved to be inadequate just as Bagwell said. Stainless in general is far too brittle to hold up in combat or in a survival situation.

Since you’re such an expert in metallurgy you’ll know the chemical differences between 440c, vg-10, n690 and even steels as hyped by backyard ramboes like 154cm are hughly negligible and pretty much absent; in terms of practical use, such steels, especially n690 hold much better to what’s considered “hard use” (chopping, prying, slashing/stabbing hard surfaces such as rock and steel) than their highly hyped and treasures “supersteels”, which are only better in terms of edge retention, aka if you’re gonna be cutting food/cordage and chopping relatively soft wood; why do you think they don’t make swords or machetes out of elmax, magnacut or 3v? Are they just being cheapskates or is it just that an object which’ll have withstand abuse would simply break if it were made out of these metals? Both from personal experience and both from hard use tests available for anyone to see online, the alleged “superiority” of supersteels is clearly a lie, or at the very least it’s true if all you’re gonna be doing with your knife is food prep, rope cutting amd feather-sticking; the inferiority of snobbed steels and superiority of “supersteels” isn’t something that goes any further than an online comment section or a knife/steel marketer’s words; it doesn’t apply in reality; I get you need to cope about having spent money on novelty market jargon, but please, differentiate the facts from your feelings/made up fiction. Go smack a brick with elmax or magnacut, then do the same with n690 or even a 1000 series steel and see what happens to your little backyard survivalists pre-conceived notions. Sure, the former steels will cut rope for longer, but not with a difference you’ll actually notice on the field, and they’ll be harder to sharpen/repair when you hit a rock/hard knot (likely, if you’re actually using your knives). I like supersteels and have spent money on supersteels, but I’m aware that it’s mostly a novelty and that, as delusional internet rambo badasses like you call them, “inferior” steels will get the job done and be even more efficient in some, especially practical and hard use related, fields. Until then you may as well keep huffing copium.