The bowie is the American fighting knife that became a hunting knife because most people were not in fights. The shape is unmistakable: a broad belly for cutting, a clip ground off the spine to bring the point down, and a guard heavy enough to keep your hand where it belongs when the blade stops suddenly.
Blades, handles and guards
Bonecreek is the largest Damascus one, fifteen inches overall with a ten inch Valknut etched blade, bone handle scales and an oxblood belt sheath. Brasscliff matches that length in 1095 with a brass double guard and a stacked leather handle. Bonecliff is thirteen inches with a bone handle, a brass guard and a clip point blade in a belt sheath. Emberstack uses a stacked leather washer handle under a clip point fullered blade with an engraved steel pommel cap. Sawcrest is the practical outlier, a 1095 sawback with an etched panel and a cord wrapped grip, where the spine teeth are meant for notching wood rather than for show.
They sit in bowie knives, inside the wider hunting knives range. For why the clip point exists at all, read knife blade shapes.
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Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
