Hanwei / Paul Chen - Hunter Bowie

Anoniem uit groningen schrijft over dit product:
“Goed mes, ligt goed in de hand, kwam niet echt scherp uit de doos, is goed slijpbaar, rest al wanneer je er naar kijkt. De bijgeleverde messschede is een abolute ramp: hij is te nauw,er zit een soort kleverige epoxy op die de riemlus aan de schede verbindt, het leer is onregelmatig van dikte, en de metalen huls aan de onderkant viel er al snel af. ”
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The Bowie Period in American History was a turbulent one, and originated on a sandbar on the Mississippi near the town of Natchez in 1827, when a political duel grew to a mass fight.
James Bowie, who was only an observer at this duel, was shot and stabbed through with a swordcane.
Although his wounds were so grave that his life hung by a thread for weeks afterwards, he managed to dispatch his major opponents with a Bowie knife.
This infamous Sandbar Fight as it later became known, took the imagination of the country by storm.
Newspapers far and wide copied the stories from the Natchez papers and soon every man wanted a knife like Bowie's; a Bowie knife.
American cutlers (many of them surgical instrument makers) and Sheffield, England cutlers began to make Bowie knives to fill the market demand.
The Bowie period lasted about forty years, from the Sandbar Fight to the end of the Civil War.
When pistols became reliable and plentiful, the size of the knife shrank, and by 1870 the Bowie knife was used mainly as a hunting knife.

Bowies were made in a period of hand labour, the industrial revolution had not touched the cutlery trades.
All the work on the old knives was done by hand, with artisan skills that were learned during a long apprenticeship.

The Historical Bowie Series covers both Bowies that were made in different American States as well as Bowies made in Sheffield for the American market.
Each piece is crafted with a hand-forged high-carbon steel blade, nickel-silver fittings and natural grip materials, as were the originals.
Each sheath is crafted in top-grade leather and a belt-frog, where applicable, is included.
Every effort has been made to replicate accurately the details of the original pieces, so as to provide heirloom-quality Bowies to the serious collector.

The version you see in the picture is a replication of a Bowie knife made by Alfred Hunter,a cutler that was in the Bowie knife business in the 1830's and 1840's.
His Bowies were top quality then, and very rare now.
The notch on the edge is called a Spanish notch, a feature found in several variations on some early Bowies.
Key features:

Historically accurate.

Handforged high-carbon steel blade.

Grip made from black hardwood.

Great collector piece.

Measurements:

Handle length: 5 1/4 inch

Overall length: 14 inch

Weight: 12 oz

Blade thickness: .175 inch

Artikelnummer	Uitvoering	Prijs	Levering
PCKH2189	N.V.T.	€139,60

Aantal beoordeling door klanten: 1

Algemene score:	8 / 10
Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding:	7 / 10
Voldoet aan verwachting:	7 / 10
Gemiddelde score:	7.3 / 10

Review van:

Anoniem, groningen

Algemene score:	8 / 10
Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding:	7 / 10
Voldoet aan verwachting:	7 / 10

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Goed mes, ligt goed in de hand, kwam niet echt scherp uit de doos, is goed slijpbaar, rest al wanneer je er naar kijkt. De bijgeleverde messschede is een abolute ramp: hij is te nauw,er zit een soort kleverige epoxy op die de riemlus aan de schede verbindt, het leer is onregelmatig van dikte, en de metalen huls aan de onderkant viel er al snel af.