GunnSmokeer
Senior Member
I bought this 14" overall lenth bowie knife (with 8.5" blade) last week, to use for chopping up bamboo and kudzu and assorted tall weeds and bushes.
I have a couple of 18" bladed machetes, but their blades were unnecessarily long and actually impaired my ability to swing them in the dense jungle-like growth where I was working. Also there were other people working in close proximity to me, so I thought having a shorter blade would be safer for everyone involved.
This big bowie knife worked Great. I noticed that the blade was thick when I bought it, but I didn't realize how much thicker it is then pretty much any other inexpensive bush knife, Bowie knife, short machete, or multi-purpose survival blade out there at box sporting good stores.
Since I got it, I was thinking of getting another one to loan to other people who might help me do some work --clearing brush, landscaping, cutting a clear shooting lane through the woods--- and I looked at a lot of different machetes and large knives in the last week.
This Magellin brand bowie knife is heavy, not only due to its size but do the remarkable thickness of its blade I didn't put a calipers on it but I estimate the blade is probably .2 of an inch thick at the spine. That's 3X thicker steel than several competing models of big knives or small machetes that I looked at.
It's got full tang construction, too.
The leather sheath sheath is cheap and soft --and I don't know how well it will help hold up to a very rough use. But it is stiff enough to allow re-sheathing the knife one-handed, but flexible enough that if you sit down without the knife in the sheath, it will bend out of your way when you sit .
I think this is a good all purpose chopping & slashing knife that fills a role that sometimes neither a fighting knife nor a full-size machete can fill.
I have a couple of 18" bladed machetes, but their blades were unnecessarily long and actually impaired my ability to swing them in the dense jungle-like growth where I was working. Also there were other people working in close proximity to me, so I thought having a shorter blade would be safer for everyone involved.
This big bowie knife worked Great. I noticed that the blade was thick when I bought it, but I didn't realize how much thicker it is then pretty much any other inexpensive bush knife, Bowie knife, short machete, or multi-purpose survival blade out there at box sporting good stores.
Since I got it, I was thinking of getting another one to loan to other people who might help me do some work --clearing brush, landscaping, cutting a clear shooting lane through the woods--- and I looked at a lot of different machetes and large knives in the last week.
This Magellin brand bowie knife is heavy, not only due to its size but do the remarkable thickness of its blade I didn't put a calipers on it but I estimate the blade is probably .2 of an inch thick at the spine. That's 3X thicker steel than several competing models of big knives or small machetes that I looked at.
It's got full tang construction, too.
The leather sheath sheath is cheap and soft --and I don't know how well it will help hold up to a very rough use. But it is stiff enough to allow re-sheathing the knife one-handed, but flexible enough that if you sit down without the knife in the sheath, it will bend out of your way when you sit .
I think this is a good all purpose chopping & slashing knife that fills a role that sometimes neither a fighting knife nor a full-size machete can fill.
