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trade center bowie

Posted By: Jerry Fisk

trade center bowie - 04/05/15 03:30 AM

This is a bowie that I just delivered to a client. The blade and guard/butt cap are from steel of building 1 and 2 of the World Trade Center. The handle is Horse Chestnut. It was the last tree of 13 trees that George Washington planted. He planted one for each colony. This one was planted for the Georgia colony. The gold inlay is 24kt.


I test all of my knives before finishing. This one I used to chop a few 2x4's with and a few soda pop cans. With most properly done forged bowies you should be able to cut at least 10 2x4's and still split a hair. With knowledge of the knife you can do better. I can chop about 30 or so boards with mine and still cut slivers off a single hair. Again, that is not me tooting my horn, that is to explain what a proper knife should do. I think I show some cutting on my utube channel, if not yall tell me and I will figure out where they are at and get a link or something to it.
Posted By: hetman

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 06:34 AM

WOW!!!!!!!!!
Posted By: Dink Dodger

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 06:45 AM

I don't even know what to say. Incredible!
Posted By: Creekrunner

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 07:49 AM

Beautiful work. Welcome.
Posted By: Kev®

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 10:55 AM

Your work makes me feel inadequate. Lol! Awesome work Jerry!
Posted By: Pitchfork Predator

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 02:27 PM

Beautiful knife. Cool history in the materials. Thanks for sharing. cheers
Posted By: Elkhunter49

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 02:39 PM

Wow clap
Posted By: bucksnbass357

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 03:22 PM

Amazing craftsmanship sir. That is a great story about the materials used and a beautiful work of art.

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Posted By: txshntr

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 03:23 PM

Beautiful knives with a great story behind the materials. Thank you for sharing up
Posted By: MikeC

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 07:35 PM

Wow! And welcome to our humble knife forum. We feel honored to have you here.
Posted By: Bullfrog

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 09:17 PM

George Washington's tree, dang that's awesome! And steel from the trade center, wow! Leaves me kinda speechless
Posted By: HuntingTexas

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 10:39 PM

Beautiful knives !! I made the mistake of looking at the photo gallery on your website. Took me 2 hours to wipe up all the drool off my keyboard .... amazing.
Posted By: tdecker22

Re: trade center bowie - 04/05/15 11:36 PM

Originally Posted By: Pitchfork Predator
Beautiful knife. Cool history in the materials. Thanks for sharing. cheers
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Posted By: J.G.

Re: trade center bowie - 04/06/15 12:52 AM

Incredible!

Do you need a free apprentice for a week?
Posted By: SapperTitan

Re: trade center bowie - 04/06/15 01:14 AM

Very nice work
Posted By: hectic

Re: trade center bowie - 04/06/15 01:15 PM

Outstanding....
Posted By: Jason Fry

Re: trade center bowie - 04/06/15 01:40 PM

Welcome to the THF, Jerry!
Posted By: Jerry Fisk

Re: trade center bowie - 04/06/15 02:31 PM

Thanks guys. I have lurking and reading the hog hunting forum for a year now and thought it best to finally sign up.
My wife and I both hog hunt and use our knives to field test with so I know what I am delivering.
She shoots a Contender in 300 blackout and I use a single shot 7x57 to do all my hunting with. This last year we have been using my Sendero Bush design from Whiteriver. It has held up well with hogs and deer.

I have been making knives many moons now, I think this year is 35 years full time. It is not often I have anything "loose" for sale that I make.
Jason, good to see you are here too.

On the bowie, there is more to the story that I did not put down.
The client that ordered the knife was there the day after the fall of the towers and was handing out Asprin and water etc so he wanted the knife from that steel. The layer count of the Damascus is one short of the number of police and firemen that died that day, kinda of like a missing man formation but I called it a missed man weld. The pattern in the Damascus is to remind folks that the sun still rises over America.
Posted By: SouthWestIron

Re: trade center bowie - 04/07/15 02:54 PM

Wow! 402 layers?
Posted By: JRJ6

Re: trade center bowie - 04/07/15 04:25 PM

Beautiful!!
Posted By: Spades

Re: trade center bowie - 04/07/15 10:50 PM

Quite possibly the most spectacular knife I have ever seen.
Posted By: 6InARowMakeItGo

Re: trade center bowie - 04/08/15 10:34 AM

Very very nice!
Posted By: Matpk

Re: trade center bowie - 04/09/15 02:33 AM

Originally Posted By: txshntr
Beautiful knives with a great story behind the materials. Thank you for sharing up



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could never sharpen the knife,despite using every sharpening device.
...Anyway I endorse every word of praise for you on this thread.
up up clap
Posted By: DiverTexas

Re: trade center bowie - 04/09/15 09:04 PM

Awesome looking knife, well done.
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