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Thanks for that other thread. When Geronimo was fleeing from invaders he and his family used to climb up and down vertical cliffs very rapidly. I thought that "sticking it in a rock and standing on it," was a perfectly normal use for a Bowie when you are being chased. Well I guess that is the question within a question. What do you suppose were the uses knives were built for in the mid 1800

Aloha Craftsman I was watching the original Jim Bowie TV show. They said the series was based on a book called the "The Tempered Blade," by Monte Barrett. In any case in the first episode they show the steel being hammered and quenched. Later adding a brass parry strip. What can you tell us about the steel that was probably used in the original Bowie knife made by James Black, and what properties do you think they were trying to achieve? What kinds of steel do you supposed that they used ? Did the steel need to be the folded over and over like in the “Kill Bill,” movie? Rumor has it was that there were ten separate steps. Was the blade used for prying?