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Post by Freebooter on Oct 26, 2010 6:10:03 GMT
Hello all, I was just wondering if anyone by anychance has one of those Confederate "D-Guard" Bowie Knives by Atlanta Cutlery. If so, what do you think of it. I am thinking of getting one. It almost seems a bit long for a Bowie knife though. Just curious. Freebooter
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Oct 26, 2010 6:46:09 GMT
Is this the one you mean? www.kultofathena.com/product.asp ... owie+Knife If so, I would be curious to hear opinions myself since I want one, as well. That said, I recall one of our members having one; I'll see if I can find the thread on the old forum and link it back here. EDIT: Couldn't find the thread and I don't remember the name of the member who had it.
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Post by Freebooter on Oct 26, 2010 7:12:17 GMT
It looks about like it. I am thinking the one in MRL's catollog seems to be a bit better made, not sure though. I was just reading the "Tactical Swords" thread and someone posted something about MRL's anda pic of it. FB
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Oct 26, 2010 7:18:45 GMT
I think that's the lighting of the picture; unless I'm mistaken, MRL is Windlass' main distributor, so it'd be the same item. KoA, I think, takes pictures of them as they are without trying to dress them up, but that's just my opinion. But with that out of the way, I think it would indeed make a decent tactical sword given it's length; however, that's neither here nor there.
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Post by chuckinohio on Oct 26, 2010 14:08:03 GMT
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Post by Freebooter on Oct 26, 2010 15:35:48 GMT
I went there. Great review and I watched the video and was impressed. I will have to get me one sometime in the not so distant future.
I used to have a smaller type, a truer copy of a Conf. D-Guard, more like a real bowie rather than a short sword. I went home with this old gal one time somewhere up around Verbena, Al. The next morning her grandma made us breakfast and haning on the wall was a rusty, original "D-Guard" Bowie. It was rusty and the wood grip was completely gone. The elderly lady said it had belonged to her grandfather. I wish now I had've gotten more info because I have since found out that a guy by the name of Pruett out of Prattville, Autauga Co., Al made D-Guard Bowies for every member of the "Autauga Guard", a company of infantry from Autauga Co. (Look up "Pruett Bowie" on Google). Only two or three survive. He had his initials stamped into the guard, "P.T. Pruett, Prattville, Al" or something like that. I have always wondered if that was one of Pruett's, the blade and guard were similar (abt a 14" blade with iron guard). I was too hung over to pay attention and counld never find my way back out there. That was in my young wild days! LOL! Freebooter
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Post by Freebooter on Oct 26, 2010 16:10:53 GMT
Hello all, I thought I would post something about the T.L.Pruett D-Guard Bowie knives here.They had 19" blades. Here is a bit from an article about them: -------------------------------------- In 1860 J. A. Robinson was a 29 year old physician living and working in Autaugaville, approximately five miles from Pruett's home in Prattville, Autauga County, Alabama. The AG. stamped into the blade positively dates the knife’s manufacture after Robinson’s September 16, 1861 enlistment in the Autauga Guards under Captain T. L. Faulkner. By the end of September 1861, Pruett had supplied all 39 enlisted men in Captain Faulkner’s Autauga Guard with a huge iron mounted D-Guard knife with a nineteen inch blade, as witnessed by the October 19, 1861 edition of Vanity Fair published in Boston, Massachusetts under the heading: Alabama “Blades” “We gather the following cheerful item from a late Southern journal. ‘In Captain Faulkner’s company, of Autauga, Alabama, about to start for Richmond, each man is furnished with a knife, the blade of which is nineteen inches long, and weighs two pounds and a half.’ You couldn’t have made those blades twenty inches, Captain, could you? Nineteen is such an awkward number of inches to have stuck into one you see. But, perhaps, each of your men is ‘just nineteen years old,’ and ‘can whip his weight in wildcats (or Yankees) in nineteen minutes.’ If so, the nineteen inches’ are happy. By the way, Captain, if you have not determined on a name for your company of ‘blades,’ let us suggest one. What do you think of dubbing them the Autauga KNIFE-AND-FAULK-NERS” -------------------------------------------
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Post by gator on Oct 29, 2010 1:59:01 GMT
I just got one. I don't like the clip point on it and was planning on giving it a spear point, which would shorten the blade a bit...but there is plenty there to shorten. The blade seems a bit thin too, about 3/16". I'd like to know how thick the blades were on the originals.
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Post by Freebooter on Oct 29, 2010 20:35:38 GMT
The originals very. There was no "Govt." issue or model, the way there was say the U.S. 18560 Lt. Cav. Sabre. D-Guards were made by about evern blacksmith in every town and by farmers and farm blacksmiths themselves. So they came in ever shape, length, thickness, style, etc.. I have seen pics of boo koo and a few originals. FB
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