| Mountain Top Forge |
| Hand Crafted Hand Forged Edged Weapons |
| Good things to hold in your hand, carry on your person, admire and or collect, that have a cutting edge. Edged weapons, knives, spears, tomahawks. Bowies, fighting knives, camp knives, practical axe type tools, swords, pikes, pig stickers, Athames & Bolines. |
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| Mountain top forge materials list: W2 O1 Iron Meteor Titanium Alloy Gold Silver Knickel Silver Aluminum Bronze Gemstones Woods of Various Species Bone Horn Antler Shell Mountain Top Forge Forging Process's: Damascus Pattern welded steel alloy Wootz process reproduction alloys forged alloy tool steel Heat treating tempering hand forged on anvil forge welded on anvil Charcoal & Coke Process lapidary work Precious & Semi Precious Stone work & Inlays Hand Crafted items made with raw materials. The finest things from Nature and Technology Old and New |
| A bowie knife is such a quintessential bladed weapon, it's heft and balance is an extension of ones body. The mass and handle size matches well with your arm and hand. Certainly a no nonsense tool that lends itself to more than close in protection and offence. It can be a surprisingly useful knife, from skinning critters to making a shelter, to chopping firewood, it can do a lot of woods chores quite well. Though it may be easy to think a large Bowie is too much knife, look at it from this perspective for a moment, better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Or as Teddy Roosevelt was fond of saying, "Walk softly and carry a big stick" If you look at photo's through history of various indigenous bush peoples, one thing they all have in common is a big knife, and you can bet they use it deftly and with precision. Something I can't help but admire and aspire to. |
| Swords |
| Camp knives |
| Axes |
| Spears |
| misc edges |
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| Gallery of hand forged damascus knives |
| In 1984 a close friend was assigned to French Equatorial Gabon when he joined the Peace Corps. As a going away present I forged up a W2 tool steel 12.875" inch bladed Bowie specially for my friend so he would have something he could depend on. His job was to go deep in the bush and help build schools from air dropped supplies for isolated hamlets and villages. No roads in, you get where you need by hoofing it through the bush. Frank was a little taken aback by the size of the knife, but I assured him he would find it pretty darn handy. After 2 years frank came back, and the 1st thing he told me was how much he came to depend on his knife, and how many of the folks he worked with wanted one. On Franks second tour he took 3 Bowie's of various sizes made to his specifications, based on comments from the natives he had worked with. Needless to say Frank made good use of these blades as gifts and won much respect and co-operation. His main comment was that these knives where quite simply the most prized possession a man could have. |
| Coming soon is a line of Bowies with Damacus, O1 & W2 forged Alloy steel blades. Some features are hand forged 500+ layer pattern welded steel, Hamon Line tempered hand forged tool steel alloy blades, natural handle materials and gemstone enhancements, along with more traditional and primitive style designs and materials. Blade lengths of 6 inches to 18 inches. In process development to establish viable weapon blades at Mt Top Forge, crucible steel alloy of wootz and other Persian/Indian crucible type material, projected date of spring of 2008 |
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