Bowie survived his injuries, took up the knife as his trademark weapon and became an American folk hero. Toward that end, this guide provides information on the ten best fixed blades for a variety of ...

And through a mix of American and Mexican knife styles, the Bowie knife was born—a large, sweeping fixed blade with a clip point and hand guard. What the Bowie knife became is very different ...

The truth is that the Bowie knife has inspired a majority of the fixed blade knives that are currently being sold in America. I don’t think that the influence of the Bowie knife on modern knife design ...

Bowie knives, “Rambo” knives—whatever you prefer—these long, fixed-blade knives are built to bear more durable and handle larger jobs than your average everyday carry knife can easily handle.

Learn more As I learned from one of my favorite podcasts, The Dollop, several years back, the story of the Bowie knife is rife with murky details. What we do know is that a large fixed-blade knife ...

He had been given his first “Bowie” knife — a long-handled, fixed-blade hunting knife — in time to have used it in his 1827 duel with Louisiana Sheriff Norris Wright. But that knife was ...