Another hypothesis about the origin of the "Spanish Flamenco knife" (grandfather of the Bowie knife), is that it was also manufactured in the 17th century in Flanders (now Belgium), when that territory was part of the Spanish Empire or Hispanic Monarchy. hence the name "flamenco". But the most likely hypothesis is that of its use in Spain by soldiers and especially by the gypsy community in southern Spain. Kind regards

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A very good lesson about the influence of the province of New Spain (later Mexico) and ultimately the material culture of Spain on the origin of the famous Bowie knife. In Spain in the 18th century there was the so-called "flamenco knife", which received this name because it was used by the gypsies of southern Spain, whose main popular dance was "flamenco". I am going to leave you a link with a video of a Spanish expert on knives from our nation and empire who explains it. Best regards from Spain, from a lover of Hawken rifles.

The Texas Form I like; it's just curved enough in can help against unarmed targets or cloth/leather targets, and it's straight enough to stab. I wonder how well it would hold up to the common Bowie Knife design today.

where can I find the full interview?

Трезво мыслящий эксперт. Похож он был на испанский мясницкий нож. У испанцев сотни типов ножей, возможно больше чем в США.

So Bowie knives are actually Mexican

so essentially Jim Bowie had zero to do with the creation of the Bowie Knife. next youre going to tell me that Philip Tampon had nothing to do with the creation of the tampon.

Looks like a seax.

Older bowies often had a copper plate on the butt. What purposes did she serve?

James is my greatx4 uncle

Thank you

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Finally, someone who pronounces Bowie properly on this site.

I need to find a knifemaker that has Texas point Bowies like that. That knife is fierce

Another fine video, ruined by barking children and dogs . . .

One of the Best explanation and synopsis of the Bowie Origin ! It Dispels the many often false information floating around. Love to see a continued episode 👍🇺🇸

Dogs in the background tells me this gentleman knows his stuff.

Rezin B was quoted as saying he did not make the "improvements", as he put it, on the Bowie knife. I'd like to know who came up with the sharpened clip point. Both the Scots and the Norse sometimes made knives with long clip points, but as far as i know they were not usually sharpened.

So very unfortunate this is the only video

Very important information here

Reccomend anything like this

Excellent presentation of old knife patterns!

In the historical context: Bowie knife = big knife. For the modern-day evolution of the bowie knife, the work of knifemakers like Bill Bagwell was critical and his book is well worth a read.

Extremely educational and fascinating. Does Mcmickel have a channel?

There is probably no one that spent the decades researching Bowie as much as my friend William F. Moran Jr. And you Johnny come lately experts are so full of yourselves and talk trash let a lone accomplish what Bill did with steel and anvil. Bottom line is you really don't know@!

Boo-ee not Bow-ee

Read about the “Kentucky Long Knives”. It’s what native Americans called people from Kentucky in the late 1700s. Bowie was born in Logan County Kentucky.

Never bring a sword to Bowie Knife fite!

If the knife was only 9 in., then the blade would have been 4 to 5 in. Long.that is not a long knife.

this style of knife was manufactured and exported from sheffield , england to america from the 18th century ... like most americans the turkey spinning bullshit here wouldn't know his arse from his elbow

My relative.

Could it be that when referring to the blade used by Bowie as a "Butcher knife", in reality they were talking at a knife being made by W. & S. Butcher of Sheffield? who actually made many big knives like the actual Bowie type in the same period of time.

Well done sirI

I wonder if the actual "Bowie Knife" carried by Jim Bowie at the Alamo will ever surface

That goes to prove they don't need to be fancy, just tough and sharp. The more smaller the point , the easier the sticken. Very interesting interview.

BILL WILLIAMSON!

Origin, Sheffield, England. They were shipped over to America.

Some pictures would have been nice

That is a beautiful knife is thare eny chance of that Texas clip being sold? I would love some more footage and or pictures of this knife?

I’ve heard the knife he used was for taking cuts of meat from large farm animals like cattle

please post the rest!!!

I have an old tru-vue viewmaster type Card that tells a very different story about the Bowie knife’s origin. It includes a runaway slave and wild dogs. I can’t find that story anywhere. I listed the card on eBay if you wanna see the pictures of it.

Interesting history and I think pretty "spot-on". I appreciate you referring to the clip point as a "Texas Clip" and is a later style. However, I must add that his name was pronounced Boo-ie. It has Scottish origins and comes from the Scottish Gaelic word "buidh" , pronounced boo-ie, which means yellow. It was adopted as a surname in the 1600's in Scotland and no doubt originated as a physical characteristic. As Jim was from Kentucky, which had many Scots immigrants, I am certain the Scottish pronunciation was used. The pronunciation "Bow-ie" comes from the English, who couldn't, or wouldn't, pronounce Gaelic words correctly.

I wish this guy would keep talking for hours

I just finished making a copy of the 1600 Spanish knife that was shown in your video.

The Edwin Forrest Knife is too long by about 3"

We would like to hear the whole interview, and anything else this gent could teach us!

“Rezin” is pronounced “Reason.” My belief is that J. Bowie’s first blade was probably shaped like the ones his brother handed out.