Arkansas Paul
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Sounds like you still came out good. Nice knife still.
They you go. That's a fantastic knife for $75!!! Looks super cool. Those springs are made of very good steel. If it is Indian or Paki, the main trucks over there are Mercedes. Volvo is big over there too. So presumably there is a pretty good chance that the steel is good German or Swedish carbon steel. We have a winner! Mexican bowies would be made out of either German, Japanese, or American car springs. However that thing does not really have that Mexican Bowie look to it. Some of those can be pretty nice...certainly nice enough. They tend toward more ornamentation, more dramatic curves at the clip, dramatic looking ricassos, and generally not stag. The very classic and subtle lines seem to echo Sheffield, which tends to give the Indian/Paki source some weight.Thanks for the info, it's appreciated, as I said, I'm not a knife guy.
Just a couple of corrections though. I was not looking for civil war memorabilia, I just saw a nice looking knife and made an offer. It was not until I examined the knife closely, that I thought it might be something more than just a neat blade.
As to the seller, he did not represent the knife as an artifact of the civil war. Anything on his table that he claimed as authentic was clearly labeled as such. He had replicas labeled in the same fashion. The only thing he claimed was that this was a Bowie knife design he considered worth $100.
The guy tightening up the knife for me says its tang is just fine for 'vigorous use' and he believes it to be automotive spring steel that has been hardened. He says it took an edge well and he won't be surprised if it holds a good edge. So I'm happy with the end result.
You betcha! I think that thing would make you proud in the woods, proud out in the desert, proud on the re-enacted battlefied, proud at the buckskinner's ball or whatever."I picked it up and it melded into my hand like an extension of my arm. It felt right and balanced."
To get that for 75 bucks is a good buy any day.