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Home Products Randall Made Knives I-XL Bowie

Randall Made Knives I-XL Bowie

by Wostenholm, George, Randall Made Knives

SKU 1091961

Date Added 05/01/2024

# Available This product is out of stock

Price $2,495.00

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Overview

This I-XL Bowie blade by George Wostenholm and Son was given a handle by Randall Made Knives. It features a satin finished blade with false top edge, .229" blade stock and 1.919" blade depth, hidden tang construction. The handle has a lugged brass guard, walnut grip and a brass butt, red/white/blue spacers. Comes with a brown leather sheath that is marked "IXL 10" on the back and "Randall Made Knives". Has some scratches and patina, otherwise excellent condition for its age.

These blades were ordered from Wostenholm in the late 60s. There were some folding knife blades, some 6" bowie blades, and 89 10" bowie blades ordered. This knife was made in the early 70s. 

Product Details

Blade Length 10

Overall Length 15.25

Weight (oz) 19.2

Source Previously owned

Additional Specs

Knife Type Hidden Tang, Has Sheath

Blade Material Carbon Steel

Blade Details Clip Point

Handle Material Metallic, Wood

About the Maker

Wostenholm, George

The third George in this family business acquired the cutlers mark ‘I*XL’ in 1826; the mark which made the company famous. Wostenholm specialized in knives and razors, dominating the American market with their products. Their original workshop, Rockingham Works, became too small to cope with demand and by 1848 they moved to Washington Works, named in honour of their American trade. George Wostenholm was an excellent salesman, and made around 30 trans-Atlantic trips to America throughout his life. This was when sailing ships were still in use and steamships were still a very new innovation; the crossing would take a number of weeks and was still very dangerous. It was Wostenholm’s willingness to travel and his skills as a trader that meant the I*XL brand was one of the most famous in America by the mid-nineteenth century. It was his travel to America that meant he declined the role of Master Cutler three times saying that he would not be able to spare time to undertake the role, before he finally accepted in 1856. In the 1850s they increased production of their most famous product, the Bowie knife. These knives were often etched with American eagles and patriotic slogans.

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Few modern knifemakers got started without first being inspired by something they read or heard about Bo Randall. He pioneered handmade knives at a time when no one else was even considering it. Instead of trying to keep that market to himself, he promoted the business for everyone concerned, establishing a museum for visitors in his shop and offering encouragement to budding knifemakers. The models offered by Randall have been developed over a period of 80 years from personal experience, extensive research and the study of hundreds of designs submitted by individuals around the world requesting custom-made knives. Each model has been thoroughly field-tested and has proven to be properly shaped and designed for its particular use. Randall knives are 100% hand made and no two are exactly alike. Demand is so great for all models that there is typically a wait of a few years to deliver a new knife ordered from Randall. Bo and his son Gary managed the business side by side for over twenty-five years. Gary continues the tradition of hand crafting knives that bear the Randall Made trademark along with his sons, Jason and Michael, of the next Randall generation. Inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame in 1983. W.D. "Bo" Randall passed away in 1989.

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