5 Elements Forge

Geoff Keyes

2015 Long Clip Bowie | $975

BL: 9 1/2; Blade: Damascus; Handle: oosik, with stacked copper and ebony spacer; Guard: mild steel; Hardware: copper and mild steel cap with a turned damascus cap nut.

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2015 Mastodon Gent's | $675
An Eastern styled Gents knife, with an integral bolster and a Mastodon slab handle with red liners and peened Sterling sliver pins on a lazy Damascus blade.
OL: 11 3/8"; BL: 6 3/4"; Blade: Damascus, low layer count, mild twist; Handle: mammoth scale with red fiber liner; Hardware: sterling silver pins.

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2015 Mississippi Straight | $525
There is a musician named Ray Wylie Hubbard who wrote a song with this title, which I borrowed for the title of this piece.
OL: 12 1/4"; BL: 7 1/4"; Steel: 1084; Dovetailed nickel silver bolster; Handle: stabilized holly with domed pins; Skullbuster pommel with tapered tang.

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2015 Coffin Handle Gent's Bowie | $450
A Coffin handled Gents knife, slim enough for a boot or the pocket of a vest.
OL: 11 1/4"; BL: 6 3/8"; Blade: 1084; Handle: Ironwood with fiber spacers, textured purpleheart spacer; Guard: copper.

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2015 Vendetta Corsa | $375
This blade is my take on a European form from the Mediterranean island of Sicily and Corsica. The originals often have very ornate handles of ivory and gold
OL: 11 1/4"; BL: 5 3/4"; Blade: Damascus, low layer count; Handle: Walnut, walrus tusk spacer, "W" pattern; Bolster: Damascus. Walnut scabbard included.

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2015 Bowie Fighter | $750
This Bowie sports a stacked copper and nickel silver guard, textured spacers and an ironwood handle
OL: 13 1/2"; BL: 8 1/2"; Blade: basket weave Damascus; Handle: Ironwood, buffalo horn and bone spacers, copper and NS stacked guard. No scabbard.

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2015 Arkansas Toothpick | $950
This is a form that I have admired since before I became a maker, an early 19th century American dagger.
OL: 16"; BL: 10 1/2; Blade: Damascus 1080/15n20; Handle: turned buffalo horn, walrus spacer; Guard: Nickel-silver, sterling seppa; Hardwre: 19th c sterling silver English endcap.

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2014 Damascus Fighter | $950
Feature piece!
BL: 9 1/2"; Blade: mosaic Damascus; Handle: fossil bone, ebony and copper spacer; Guard: NS collar and guard; Hardware: damascus butt cap and turned cap nut.

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2013 Damascus Tanto | $1050
This is a Japanese style tanto, in full take down mode. The scabbard and handle are stabilized sheoak with rays, and African blackwood end caps. The blade is 1084/15n20 in a flamed edge pattern. The guard is pebble textured ebony and the habaki is sterling silver and copper.
OL: 17"; BL: 9 7/8"; Blade: Damascus 1084/15n20 flame-edge pattern; Handle and scabbard: Sheoak and blackwood; Guard: Ebony; Habaki: sterling silver and copper. Includes stand and takedown tools.

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2013 Ivory Dirk | $625
This dirk is inspired by similar naval dirks from the 1840's. Often they handles would be carved or scrimshawed, as part of the shipboard tradition of handcrafts. This one has a walrus ivory handle re-purposed from a 19th century carving set, and a random damascus blade.
OL: 11 1/4"; BL: 6 5/16"; Blade: Damascus, random pattern; Handle: reclaimed walrus tusk; Guard: NS hammer-textured "S" shape.

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2013 Early Bowie | $525
This is my interpretation of an 1820's era bowie out of Norm Flayderman's book "The Bowie Knife", pg 16. Mine features a sharpened circular clip, and a gadrooned walnut handle. Includes sheath.
OL: 12 3/4"; BL: 7 1/2"; Blade: 1084; Handle: walnut with NS spacer.

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2009 Walrus and Damascus Bowie | $1250
This is a San Francisco style bowie in the style of Michael Price. Knives like this were made for men who had made their fortunes in the gold fields. A high style gent would wear a piece like this as a sign of their success.
Michael Price never worked in damascus, but I bet he would have if he could have!
Blade: 300 layer Damascus; Handle: 150 year reclaimed walrus ivory; Guard: Sterling Silver

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2011 Bowtie Dagger | $450
BL: 9"; Steel: 1084; Handle: turned Bacote; Guard: Copper with textured spacers; Hardware: turned pommel surmounted with an Amethyst Sage, jasper cabochon. No scabbard.

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2011 Fantasy Takedown Dagger | $700
This fighter/dagger is a pure fantasy knife. The blade resembles early Japanese blades, as well as some Middle Eastern and South Asian work. This knife is a full takedown construction.
BL: 8"; Blade: W2 - clay masked, water quenched; Handle: Wenge; Guard: blackened mild steel; Hardware: textured copper seppa and spacers, blackened mild steel cap nut; Scabbard: Wenge and copper.

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2013 Wildhunt | $750
This is a handful of a Bowie. The blade is Star Damascus mosaic that got away from me a bit, like a horse at a gallop.
OL: 16"; BL: 10 1/2"; Blade: star mosaic Damascus 1084/15n20; Handle: fossil sea cow, ebony, mild steel; Guard: forged steel.

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Geoff Keyes

2015 Long Clip Bowie | $975

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