Hi.
My name's Dan Delavan.
I'm the owner/operator of Plaza Cutlery in
Costa Mesa, California.
We have a great selection, we also have a
website, plazacutlery.com and today we're
going to be talking about knives.
The Bowie knife, of course was made famous
by Col. James Bowie who died at the Alamo.
He was known for his knife fighting skills
and all the different things that you can
read up on him on the Internet.
He was an interesting character.
This is a standard Bowie.
Most Bowies will either have a clip blade
or an angled towards the tip.
You know a lot of the original ones were perfectly
straight and some of them had just straight
guards.
And earlier ones and the most popular ones
usually have a horn handle or stag handle
of some type.
This particular one is made by Randall Knives
of Florida.
Small production company.
This Bowie is a modern tactical type bowie
made by Strider Knives.
It has more of the straight, just a very slight
drop in it.
Doesn't have the heavier clip.
It has the tiger striping to break the silhouette,
and again it has the double hilt.
Which is standard with most Bowies.
And then in this particular one because it
is more on the tactical side, has a hole for
lanyards so you don't want to lose it, which,
in a lot of Bowies that usually try and do
that.
There's also custom knife makers that Bowies,
this is a Chris Danko Bowie.
It's a local knife maker that works here.
This is a mustard finish so it kind of looks
like Demascus but again it has the false edge
on the top it's not sharp.
Before I cut myself there.
Again brass double hilt and stag corn so the
horn goes all the way around there.
When they shed their antlers each year and
these fall out, they'll usually try to get
these to use as the handle.
There's also Bowies that are also smaller,
again this is a Randall, a little bare Bowie.
This particular one is sharpened on the back
side and brass buck cap for the hand stag
handle.
Hand stag can vary in color from the crown
stag on a Chris' knife to the amber stag on
this one.
And again with the sharpened on the backside,
we consider it a dirk or a dagger because
it is sharpened on both sides.
So those are restricted in some areas.
