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Home Products Frontier Bowie - Comes with Book "A Private Collection of Handmade Custom Knives & Knife Related Items"

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Frontier Bowie - Comes with Book "A Private Collection of Handmade Custom Knives & Knife Related Items"

by Bagwell, Bill

SKU 1108386

Date Added 01/29/2025

# Available 1

Original price $5,725.00

Price $5,500.00

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Overview

This Frontier Bowie by Master Smith Bill Bagwell features a mirror polished clip point blade with sharpened top edge, .240" blade stock and 1.267" blade depth, hidden tang construction. The handle has a forward curved brass guard and a stag grip with brass lanyard hole. Comes with a black leather sheath and a zippered case. Excellent condition. This is the first knife that he stamped with his Master Smith (M.S.) stamp. It was made in December of 1981 in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. This is the very first knives that Bill made upon returning from the November 1981 New York Custom Knife Show when Bill was awarded his Master Smith ranking. 

Comes with the book "A Private Collection of Handmade Custom Knives & Knife Related Items" by Dominique Beaucant. This is a limited edition book of only 12 copys. Just out from the press is this unique release of a Special Limited Numbered Collector's Edition hard cover bound book of only 12 copies printed globally depicting over 140 custom knives that are for sale. Book size is 9-1/4" by 12-3/8" with high gloss laminated UV front and back cover and laminated UV high glossy pages (104). New from the author.
 

Product Details

Blade Length 7.875

Overall Length 13

Weight (oz) 13.3

Source Previously owned

Additional Specs

Knife Type Has Sheath, Hidden Tang

Blade Material Carbon Steel

Blade Details Clip Point

Handle Material Horn & Antler, Metallic

About the Maker

Bagwell, Bill

Bill Bagwell had always been fascinated by knives. He made his first knife at the age of 10 from an old saw. While he was in high school he began to forge knives in the industrial arts shop, and by the time he was 15 he was forging hunting and Bowie knives as a hobby. He made and sold knives while he was in college and became a full-time professional bladesmith in 1969. Bagwell is one of the true pioneers in the making of Damascus blades in the United States. He completed his first successful Damascus blade on December 1, 1973, after about six months of trial and failure. In early 1976, with the late Don Hastings, B.R. Hughes and Bill Moran, Bagwell became one of the founding members of the American Bladesmith Society and wrote the original charter for that organization. He also served as the society's first secretary and was on its first board of directors. Bill passed away in 2021.

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