A Custom Frontier Bowie Knife

The Bowie knife below was custom ordered and has the look and feel

of a bowie knife from the 1800's 

The blade on the knife is about 7 inches with patina and some

pattern aging.  The width is just under 2" and the forward

clip has been tapered.

The steel guard was forged, aged and hand fitted to the tang 

and meets up with an antiqued bone handle that has 5 steel

pins.

The sheath was antiqued and hand stitched.

Thank you
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

Bowie Knives... Bone Handled Vintage Style.

This is one of my recently completed custom order Bowie Knives.

The blade on this Bowie is about 8 inches long with a nickel silver
guard and pins.  The handle is antiqued bone that has been hand
carved and hatched.

The sheath was hand stitched and made to be worn on the belt, all the
carving and tooling was done by hand.

Thank you
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

A Bowie Knife that is a handfull

This Bowie knife was a custom order and is a stout handful
of a knife.

The blade is about 8 inches long and a bit under 2" wide.
The forward clip has been tapered to a swedge.

It is hard to tell from the photo below but the blade has a light
forge pattern that has been hand sanded down to have a clean
look but still has the look of a vintage style blade.

The handle is black walnut with 3 steel pins  and the tang is
exposed and runs past the but end of the handle maybe by
.25

The guard was forged, hand shaped and hand fitted.

The sheath was hand stitched as well and made with an
old school vintage style leather tie.

Thank you
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

A set of Vintage Style knives

This is a custom set of knives for a custom order.

These knives were made with aged black walnut handles and
both have large brass pins.  The smaller of the two knives
has a 5 inch blade and the larger almost bowie shaped
knife has a blade about 9 1/2" long.

Both handles also have a beautiful ball end grip.

All my sheaths are hand stitched but are not in the photo
below.

I did upload a video of the smaller knife that I will post
below the photo.  Time was a factor in not having both
on this video.

thank you
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

The Vintage Bowie Knife and some Leather Work

The Bowie knife posted below was a recent custom order that left my
shop, and the blade measured out at about 8 inches long with a slow
tapered forward swedge/clip.

The tang was hidden and runs through the entire length of the
aged black walnut handle and was preened over a solid steel
but cap.  The hatching on the handle was done by hand as well.

The guard is of steel as well and was forged and hand fitted.

The sheath was hand stitched and antiqued.

New Leather work was added to the "Available Leather Pieces Page"
All of my leather tooling and hand carved line work is done
one at a time and by hand.
Here is a close up of the current available piece.

Thank you

Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

A Bowie Knife Jim Bowie Would love

Bowie knives are a special knife if you ask me,  Just some kind of
special goodness when you hold a blade like this.  I would list
a bowie amongst my favorite's to make as far as large knives go.

This being said I also love forging and making the large butcher
or camp knife.  If you have read my book you know how I feel about
an old school butcher knife.  This post originally wasn't meant to be
a list of knives I enjoy making because I could list a bunch here.
So let me go on to this bowie.

This bowie knife  has a blade just about 9 inches long, and has a nice
patina on it.  The spine has been file worked  and the width on this
is about 1 3/4" after the guard give or take.

The handle is aged crown elk stag and is well over 5 inches long with
2 old school style steel penned pins.  The guard is forged and is thick and
stout at about 3/16"

The sheath was hand stitched and antiqued and all the tooling vine work
was done free hand.

Thank you
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

A Vintage Style Bowie Knife

This was a recently completed vintage style bowie knife
that left my shop.

Here is some info on this Bowie. 
The blade was about 10 1/2" long with a very nice
patina aged finish and forged steel guard.  The forward
part of the blade was tapered.

The handle is tiger maple set up in a 5 pin fashion.
the sheath was antiqued a darker brown and hand
stitched set up to be worn high.

Also most of you who have followed my work know I share the same
love as all of you for being outdoors, being in the woods, hunting,
fishing, and so on. 

As I can I like to post pics and info on some of my other adventures
and passions.  Maybe even add a separate page on the blog for
this in the future.    Anyway.  On a recent walk with my wife about 5
minutes from my house a local farmer had a flock of geese sitting in one
of his fields. 

The funny thing is all the geese seemed as if they were pointing in one
direction as if they were all looking at something and never did turn around. 
Wish I had a better picture, but the best I could get is below.

thank you
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com/

Hunting Skinner Past work with Spalted Maple

Here is one of my past work pieces, a hunting Skinner and all
around great trail knife.

This had a 4 plus inch blade with file work.

the handle is antiqued spalted maple with brass pins.

Sheath is hand stitched and set up to be worn on a
belt.

I also uploaded a new video of a beautiful custom Bowie knife
that you may like.

Thank you
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

Custom Long Bowie Knife

This was a recently completed custom order bowie knife.

The blade being at about 12 inches with a forged steel guard.
The handle is aged black walnut with a steel but cap.  The tang
runs through the length of the handle and is peened over the
cap.

The sheath was hand stitched and hand tooled with acorn and
oak leaves.

I also posted a new video recently.  This was unreleased
video of the trail Fighter.

Thank you, you all have a great Easter.

Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

Custom Bowie Knife with Osage

I made this bowie knife awhile back for a custom order and I don't think
I had ever  posted any pics or info.  This knife was made with a pattern
and patina aged blade about 9 to 9 1/4" long.  Forged steel guard and
a beautiful Osage handle with 5 brass pins.  This also has a
tapered forward clip/swedge.

A larger picture is posted here as well.

Past work page 1

A New Video Post as well.  Beefed up stag Drop Point.

IF You Love Bowie Knives, You may Enjoy this post as well. Custom Bowie Knife

Thank you
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com