Sold: Bowland Blades Knife - NOW REFURBISHED

[Stuart Mitchell]

This arrived with me as part of another deal on the understanding that I would be offering it for sale.

Sorry, I don't know much about it but here goes...

Steel is around 3mm thick and the patina suggests that it is a carbon grade?

The blade sports a lovely edge and has a length around 100mm, overall it measures in at more like 210mm.

Handle scales look to be a Tufnol of sorts, those fitted over black liners and secured by a brass forward pin and rear lanyard tube.

Kydex sheath as shown in the first photo.

Obviously seen use but still fit for plenty more, hopefully priced to sell and at what it stands me at of £125 all in.

I'm also a man of the world so please don't be afraid to make me an offer, just don't be offended if I ermmmm, how to put it, robustly refuse it

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

 

[Tim.243]

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If you lined up all the slots on those pan/cheese heads Stuart it might attract a different ocd buyer.

 

[Acm]

Perhaps @Bowland blades could expand on the blade type etc.

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Stuff is getting sold, my attention now turns to this…

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Just home from the 'shop and had an hour on this.

Fully reground blade and reworked the profile around the choil area, I also swapped the brass lanyard tube out for a Secare style flared one, that gave me chance to make good the chipping and splintering around said lanyard tube.

Handle currently finished down to 1500g, I might leave it like that, I quite like the utilitarian feel and look.

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

 

[jon 12]

That's much better, very tempted

 

[Acm]

That’s a different knife all together

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

That’s a different knife all together

I promise that it isn't....

 

[jimmy milnes]

I must be odd then as I preferred it before ..
Jimmy

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

I must be odd then as I preferred it before ..
Jimmy

You missed out then mate.

 

[snake_2586]

That blade looks a lot better now, before it looked like one of mine does when the belt gets old and decides to let go and take a chunk of blade with it, the difference is I don't sell them like that, they either get tidied up or scrapped, good on you for taking the time to make a better looking blade out of it.

 

[Hanechdene]

That looks significantly better

 

[Donkey Basher]

That blade looks a lot better now, before it looked like one of mine does when the belt gets old and decides to let go and take a chunk of blade with it, the difference is I don't sell them like that, they either get tidied up or scrapped, good on you for taking the time to make a better looking blade out of it.

Looks like the wear on the top edge towards the tip & the scratches is from a fire steel used by bushcrafters?

 

[snake_2586]

Looks like the wear on the top edge towards the tip & the scratches is from a fire steel used by bushcrafters?

I was meaning the awful gouge at the end of the cutting edge that Stuart has now smoothed out to be a nice choil, there are signs of use on a second hand knife and then there are signs of poor workmanship when it was made.

 

[eldon]

I must be odd then as I preferred it before ..
Jimmy

Jimmy you're odd

 

[jimmy milnes]

You missed out then mate.

Never said I wanted to buy it Stuart just I preferred it before.
I personally don't see the point "pardon the pun" in all these knives costs large sums of money but obviously its each to their own.
Regards
Jimmy.

Jimmy you're odd

It's taken you 30 years to work out that matey

 

[John Gryphon]

That's much better, very tempted

Now those (imo) horrible screw heads. To me it wouldn't matter which way they were orientated.

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Never said I wanted to buy it Stuart just I preferred it before.
I personally don't see the point "pardon the pun" in all these knives costs large sums of money but obviously its each to their own.
Regards
Jimmy.

I think that is the beauty, isn't it, and why there is a place for everyone and everything, because it is all subjective and as you say, each to their own.

Thankfully, for me, there are enough folk around who do see the point in knives that cost larger sums of money

Cheers mate, Stuart.