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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2013 2:26:27 GMT
Then go on to find that the Musso bowie is a false attribution. Popularity among knife knuts does not a national knife make. One would certainly agree this one might qualify but quite honestly guys, how much of the American has that type of passion. www.meiersteel.com/gallery.html One could consider Ginsu,as something that has been sold in the millions for decades. Ronald Reagan wore a Randall in WWII. more American than anything? C'mon, how many Americans today knew that? Jimmy Lile made "bowies for many presidents but how many Americans even know who Jimmy Lile was? How many here reading (no fair peeking) know his work to begin with? We are not one tenth of one percent of American public opinion here at sbg. You really want a national knife day? Take it up with this Facebook and complain about the cover photo. www.facebook.com/knifedayGee, they gave up too. :roll: There is a national flower, a national tree, etc, ad nauseum but not a consensus nationwide as an adopted national knife. Or national gun for that matter but that would be a similar debate as to the most recognized. I bet a dime that most school kids would point to an ak47 first :mrgreen: So sure, fly the bowie flag high and be that proud bastion of what I see as pretty much single mindedness and dare I say ignorance. Bah and humbug but I like you guys anyway.
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Post by Unit731 on Sept 19, 2013 16:14:24 GMT
Not sure if Canada has any sort of weapon unique to itself. We just copy America, it is easier
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Sept 19, 2013 17:33:46 GMT
edelweiss don't known what your problem is. By the way I knewn Jimmy Lile back when I was a teenager, he was from my home town Russellive Ark. I saw Liles first knife in his shop a 4in blade untiliy hunting kinfe. If you mean the double edge knife Gerber copied he did make some of them for military personal during the Vietnam police action. Lile made all kinds of knive for all kind of uses. Ronld Regan ever was in a combat unit look it up. He helped the army make movies. Even if he did carry a Randall it could have been one of their bowies.
If it was put up for a vote by the american people the bowie would win. Don't known what you have agianst bowie knives.
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Post by Student of Sword on Sept 19, 2013 17:45:51 GMT
There are more than one candidates for the U.S. How's about the early colonial trade knife? They were very common with fur traders, frontiersmen, and settlers. The barlow were more common later on. Every boy got his barlow, few carried a bowie.
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Sept 19, 2013 18:12:32 GMT
Im with Driggers, when you think american knife the Bowie is exactly what comes to mind.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2013 18:36:16 GMT
The point is that how many reading that post do actually know of Lile's work and that many here are (or have recently been)teenagers.
Once again, I have agreed your right to wave a bowie flag but have pointed out (again) that all the blade forums collectively hardly represent America. Pitch it to the government to have a bowie day and present it to Obama as a national knife. Others have done that, yet we don't have a national knife day, let alone the bowie as a national knife.
Where the heck is your own interest if you didn't show the Meier blade for Bush in the first place. All along I have more or less agreed that a "bowie" blade may be a best recognized and adored but that (to me) is still a huge step to claiming it as a national knife. You yourself have agreed your thoughts are based on your own perception of what public opinion is.
My problem seems to be entirely your own in not simply accepting another's opinion.
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Post by 14thforsaken on Sept 19, 2013 19:05:00 GMT
I think of a Ka-Bar or a survival knife first when thinking of American knives. Kind of like the one from Rambo. Growing up, those were the types of knives I always wanted, not a Bowie.
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Sept 20, 2013 3:07:01 GMT
Rambo's Knife in the first 3 movies was a bowie.
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Post by 14thforsaken on Sept 20, 2013 3:20:20 GMT
It was more of a survival knife. I don't recall Bowie's having matches etc in the hilt.
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Sept 20, 2013 3:37:21 GMT
Still the blades were bowie, even with the saw backs. Trade knives were Englandish or French. The Bowie is an american design.
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Post by Rifleman Lizard on Sept 20, 2013 3:39:05 GMT
Sgian Dubh.
... and not those dreadful ornamental sock toys either. If you have to wear a national knife at least make it a good built-for-purpose knife! One of the only blades we're still allowed to openly carry in the UK.
You can take our scissors and disposable income, but you'll never take our freedom. So on and so forth.
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Sept 20, 2013 3:43:20 GMT
The Sgian Dubh is a nice knife made a few of them.
Want to play dodge rock.
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Post by Rifleman Lizard on Sept 20, 2013 3:48:11 GMT
Good old dodge rock. We still play that now, but only in busy car parks and dodgy housing estates.
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Post by Talon on Sept 20, 2013 4:47:03 GMT
Perfectly true,but you need to be wearing traditional Scottish dress to get away with it .I'd be more worried about getting arrested for open carry of my knees if I was armed with a kilt :shock:
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Sept 20, 2013 4:49:07 GMT
Going to joint us in dodge rock Talon, beleive me I will move.
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Post by Talon on Sept 20, 2013 4:53:54 GMT
Aye so would i :lol:
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Post by Rifleman Lizard on Sept 20, 2013 4:56:23 GMT
Right you are mate, but to be honest if I was gonna do someone in, I'd much rather do it while wearing my most masculine of clothes: my pretty man-skirts.
I've got a pretty unique look in a kilt, and let's face it... the news article would be both frightening and hilarious.
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Post by Talon on Sept 20, 2013 5:08:43 GMT
I'll keep checking Look North to see if you've gone on a crazed Chav hunt Chris. I've already patented the name The Kiltenator though so the Evening Chronicle best pay me royalties if they use it.
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Post by Rifleman Lizard on Sept 20, 2013 5:21:43 GMT
'Police are looking for a suspected crazy person, male, 6'2", robotic legs, man-dress.' Yeah I'd last long. :cry:
You should head round, mucker. The collection has gotten out of control and cannot be stopped! :?
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Sept 20, 2013 5:34:08 GMT
Guess it takes a real man to go into battle wearing a skirt and swinging free.
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