[nomorelurker]

Nice pics/knives. Maybe you can answer a question. Since Bowie apparently actually designed his knife for fighting. I have read somewhere that his knife had a brass strip on top to catch an opponents blade but I have never seen a bowie knife old or new with that feature. Is the story true or not.

[unspun]

I have read somewhere that his knife had a brass strip on top to catch an opponents blade but I have never seen a bowie knife old or new with that feature. Is the story true or not.

And I recall seeing a knife (or it's picture) with that kind of brass strip over the near half of so of the dull edge, but don't recall that said about Bowie's knife!

[wildbill]

It supposed to be true--but I'm with you, I've never seen one. One of the problems would be in melding the steel and the brass together so they'd stay together.

But you'll notice most of them have brass hilt guards. The reason for the softer metal was to "catch" the blade of the opponent